Wings of Angels

Album: Judy Collins Wildflower Festival (2003)
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  • Collins wrote this song for her son Clark, who killed himself in 1993. In an interview with Beliefnet, Collins explained: "I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable - for many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries."

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