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As far as I know, this is the only filk song inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac.

I have always loved this song, so it was the first one I thought of when Eli suggested I re-team with Michael to produce a bonus track for this CD. I could practically hear what Michael would do with the arrangement, and I was excited about how beautiful I knew the song could be.

Even though I’d only talked with Michael a couple of times over the last fifteen years, when we got together it was like no time had passed at all. Air Craft Records had long since passed away, so this time we recorded at another wonderful Pittsburgh studio, AAM.

Recording at AAM was almost as different from my last experience as Air Craft had been from what I’d known before then. The recording rooms looked pretty much the same, but now it was digital equipment that lined the engineering booth’s walls, and computers which sat alongside the mixing board. I was sent home with a freshly burned CD of the tracks we’d cut, instead of a laboriously cobbled cassette tape.

In addition to his own talents, Michael was able to bring back John Maione, whose fabulous guitar work is heard throughout the original Divine Intervention recordings. The three of us got together with an oboist, a pizza, and lots of caffeine, and talked about everything from Broadway to Star Trek to Tori Amos between working collectively and individually on our tracks for the song.

It was just like 1986, only better, and I wished we had a whole album to work on instead of just the one song. I was really sorry when the evening was over.

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The sparrows’ wings beat out your name.
My heart beats out the very same, Roxanne.
Two sounds etched bright upon my soul, Roxanne.
I fear the words that can’t express
The limits of your loveliness,
The limitless amazement that is you.

Nighttime is a friend to me —
It hides my face and helps me see, Roxanne,
What elegance dares bear the name Roxanne.
I’m drunken by the sight of you,
The heights my love has swept me to.
I’d drown in you and die a happy man.

This moment is my very life,
Your name a sweet and killing knife, Roxanne.
I know you almost love me, too, Roxanne.
So think that you’re with me tonight,
And let me dream of all that might
Have just been mine if I had dared, Roxanne.

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from Divine Intervention, released August 27, 1986

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