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In the city's clang and clatter
In the endless cellphone chatter
When the big trucks roar and rattle all my bones
When the TV drowns my thoughts out
With its dry and deadening drone
I will raise my voice and sing

Raise my voice and sing
Raise my voice and sing
I am here, I am here
And I am a human being
So I raise my voice and sing

In my rumbling roiling room
In the crash and blast and boom
When my neighbors shout down all my quiet joys
And the world now seems deafened by the
Howl of its own noise
I will raise my voice and sing

Under twilight stars a-glisten
For a minute I can listen
To the fleeting hush of peace in my heart
But the day shall start again
With its dread and draining din
So I raise my voice and sing

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from Heaven Is So High​.​.​.​And I'm So Far Down, released January 1, 2006
PW: lead vocal
and the Joe Jencks Glee Club:
Alto: Joe Jencks
Tenor: Joe Jencks
Bass: Joe Jencks
Harmony vocal arrangement by Joe Jencks
written by Pat Wictor (Tell-A-Tale Music/BMI)

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Pat Wictor Brooklyn, New York

Grounded in rural blues and gospel traditions, Pat Wictor's lean, poetic songs and expressive guitar playing are seasoned with jazz, pop, improvisational surprise, and philosophy. He first gained attention as an acoustic lap slide guitarist, and a sought-after collaborator and session musician. His evolving projects push his own musical boundaries ever outward ... more

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