In a 2011 interview with All About Jazz, Holcomb said:
AAJ: Where do you draw your subject matter: from literature or life?
RH: Not exactly personal experience, but sometimes about a person I’ve met. I wrote a whole song cycle many years ago called Angels of the Four Corners, where I speculate on...
Deliver me
Deliver me
The light
Is only perfect
For a very short time
Deliver me
When
You're blinded to
The moon
And its rise
How can you know
The planting times?
Streetlights
Tell lies
Deliver me
Deliver me
The light
Is only perfect
For a very short time
Deliver me
Love
Is good
When you speak
Two ways
Can you prove
What's holy
When the river
Runs dry?
These are
Trying days
Deliver me
Deliver me
The light
Is only perfect
For a very short time
Deliver me
Deliver me
Deliver me
Deliver Me was written by Robin Holcomb.
Deliver Me was produced by Wayne Horvitz.
Robin Holcomb released Deliver Me on Mon Nov 19 1990.