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Fallen Angel

from Divine Intervention by Julia Ecklar

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Anyone who knows me knows that I am an Original Series Star Trek fan the same way some people are Catholic and others are Greek.

I have probably written more music inspired by some aspect of Star Trek than any other source during my career, and I’m confident that filkers will continue to mine that rich source for years to come.

I still believe that the decision to destroy the original Enterprise in Star Trek III was wrong, both from the point of view of a fan and as a writer. When I first saw the film, I was bouncing up and down in my seat in agitation, rattling off to my friends all the various options still available to the characters before destruction of the ship became inevitable — and if I can think of them on the fly like that, certainly my hero Kirk could.

But what was done, was done, and I went home from the movie angry and devastated. I walked through the front door, went straight up to my room, and composed this song on the spot.

From the beginning, I heard it in the same sort of orchestral setting that for me is part-and-parcel with good Star Trek. For that reason, it was only ever performed once in front of an audience, because I couldn’t find a guitar accompaniment that I felt sounded good with it.

So, unlike most of the other songs on this album, “Fallen Angel” is heard here the way it has always existed. Perhaps because of this, “Fallen Angel” is the second of my three favorite tracks on this album.
Michael Moricz quote of the day: “French horns! It’s Star Trek, so there must be french horns!”

lyrics

My God, what have I done?
Is this what I had to do?
I paid to save six lives.
Was it worth the price of you?
I would take your spirit in me
To make you live again,
But your fire dies across the sky.
My God, is this the end?

My steel and star-dry lady,
My soul’s death is at your hands.
As your own death was at mine, love,
‘Though even I can’t understand
Why we gods can’t live forever.
Why should legends have to die?
As you wail to sleep in glory,
My heart still seeks the sky.

There are stars before my eyes,
But they pale to your dying.
You swore we’d outlive Time.
Oh, my love, were you, too, lying?
What’s my life without your singing
When I’m not but flesh and bone?
Where have I damned my lover’s soul
To wander all alone?

But this death I can’t deny
As you fade to distant ember.
My need to steal from death
Cost you, love. But I’ll remember.
And I long to burn there with you,
To never live again.
Forever we would light the sky.
My God, is this the end?

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from Divine Intervention, released August 27, 1986

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