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"Fallen Wings"

Available May 28Th from Zephoniel

Fallen Wings by Zephoniel is a deeply personal 28-track autobiographical journey told through the eyes of an angelic character cast down into human form. While the narrative is framed through the celestial, every event chronicled within is drawn from real life — surviving child abuse, demonic encounters, real angelic experiences, and the long road to redemption. From the judgment of the Tribunal to the closing prayer, Fallen Wings is a true story of enduring the darkness and fighting to find the light.

Matthew 24:13 (KJV) — "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." Isaiah 65:17 (KJV) — "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind."

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Track 1
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 1 Thomas's Lantern
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Track 2
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 2 Entertained Strangers
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Track 3
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 3 The Tribunal
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Track 4
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 4 The Stone Shepherd
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Track 5
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 5 Lullaby for the Fallen
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Track 6
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 6 Echoes of the Fall
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Track 7
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 7 Phantoms in the Hall
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Track 8
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 8 A Banquet for Swine
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Track 9
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 9 Tattered Henry Dog
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Track 10
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 10 Broken Prayer
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Track 11
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 11 Out of the Cage, Into the Trap
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Track 12
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 12 Pennies in a Glass Jar
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Track 13
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 13 The Black Crayon
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Track 14
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 14 The Silence of the Chest
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Track 15
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 15 The Midnight Booth
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Track 16
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 16 A Feast for the Forgotten
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Track 17
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 17 Ashes of the Unwanted
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Track 18
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 18 The Threshold
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Track 19
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 19 The Coward's Silhouette
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Track 20
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 20 The Skyline and the Silence
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Track 21
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 21 The Lady in White Lace
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Track 22
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 22 The Sentinel's Hiss
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Track 23
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 23 Fallen Wings
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Track 24
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 24 Holy Touch
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Track 25
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 25 The Forbidden Doors
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Track 26
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 26 Acoustic Scars
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Track 27
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 27 The Final Chapter
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Track 28
Album Fallen Wings Art Track 28 The Final Prayer
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Track Listing

1. Thomas's Lantern1:36
While this album is told through the eyes of an angelic character, the journey from childhood to adulthood is completely factual. The tracks you are about to hear are a direct reflection of Thomas's own life—chronicling real events of surviving evil predators, child abusers, pedophiles, phantoms, and real demonic entities, as well as real angelic encounters and dreams. This is not fiction. This is a true journey through the dark... and the fight to find the light.
2. Entertained Strangers1:54
Entertained Strangers is about the Watchers — heavenly beings who descended from glory into mortal flesh, forgotten by the world yet still stirring the veil between heaven and earth wherever they walked.
3. The Tribunal5:52
The Tribunal is about a proud angel brought before God's golden throne — not destroyed, but sentenced in mercy to become what he despised most: a fragile child of clay, stripped of his wings and cast into the darkness of the womb.
4. The Stone Shepherd7:14
The Stone Shepherd is about Raphael escorting a condemned angel from the Hall of Souls into mortal life—not with comfort, but with cold, dutiful silence.
5. Lullaby for the Fallen3:02
Lullaby for the Fallen is a haunting lullaby sung over a condemned angel as he is cast from heaven into the darkness of the womb — tender in tone, devastating in meaning.
6. Echoes of the Fall4:53
Echoes of the Fall is about the terror of waking up inside a human body — born into Florida sun, shattered by divorce, and dragged north to an old house full of the dead, where an angel trapped in infant flesh discovers he can still see what no child should ever see.
7. Phantoms in the Hall6:37
Phantoms in the Hall is about a child haunted by dark spirits who were drawn not by fear, but by the heavenly residue still clinging to a fallen angel trapped in human flesh — they didn't come to frighten him, they came because they could smell his wings.
8. A Banquet for Swine6:20
A Banquet for Swine is about being dragged as a child into a night of drunken cruelty — left hungry in the dark while adults feasted, forced onto the knee of a predator, and abandoned by the one who should have protected him, as a fallen angel discovers the very worst of what it means to be human.
9. Tattered Henry Dog8:31
A devastating memory from childhood — the night innocence ended. After being uprooted from Florida and his paternal grandmother, he was placed into his mother's brother's home in New Jersey, a house ruled by alcoholism and abuse. His grandmother had given him a small stuffed dog named Henry — the one piece of comfort he carried into that darkness. When Henry was destroyed, something inside the child shut down forever.
10. Broken Prayer6:19
Broken Prayer is about a child trapped in an abusive home, starving, beaten, and forgotten — his own maternal grandmother, not the loving grandmother from Florida, among those clapping at their pain — who looks up through broken glass and prays to a God he isn't sure is listening, not knowing that something heard him anyway.
11. Out of the Cage, Into the Trap7:34
Out of the Cage, Into the Trap is about escaping one house of abuse only to be delivered into the hands of a worse predator — his mother's boyfriend or whatever he was to her, the same man with the fangs from Track 8 — left alone with him while she went partying, as a child prayed for rescue and got none. The sadistic man would scatter barley across the hardwood floor and force the child to kneel on it until his knees bled.
12. Pennies in a Glass Jar6:09
Pennies in a Glass Jar is about the small mercies and cruelties of childhood survival — a brief friendship with a kind old man named Angel, a jar of pennies saved from coins carelessly thrown on the floor, and the moment the predator stole even that last little treasure, leaving a child on a dirty couch with nothing but a toy army truck and the memory of the only person who was ever kind to him.
13. The Black Crayon5:49
The Black Crayon is about a child sent to Sunday school with nothing but a black crayon — the other children had taken the rest — who colored the Savior black and was dragged into the hallway by a nun and called a demon, only to return home to a man who smiled and said "even they agree."
14. The Silence of the Chest6:59
The Silence of the Chest is about the night the predator's mother died in the house — and how he forced a child to press his ear against her corpse and listen to the silence where a heartbeat should have been, then made him watch as the body bag was zipped over her face, whispering that one day it would be him.
15. The Midnight Booth5:53
The Midnight Booth is about being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night by his mother and taken to a smoke-filled bar — sitting alone in a booth, a child with school the next morning, watching her trade herself away to strangers one glass at a time, and showing up to school the next day reeking of smoke, hollow-eyed, and carrying what no child should ever have to carry.
16. A Feast for the Forgotten5:59
A Feast for the Forgotten is about the rare grace that broke through the darkness — three starving boys locked out of their homes every summer day, who found catering leftovers in a dumpster alley and were fed by a kind stranger at a Special Olympics event, discovering that even when the people who should have loved them failed completely, God had not forgotten them.
17. Ashes of the Unwanted6:03
Ashes of the Unwanted is about being passed like a burden from hand to hand — a teacher nearly rescuing him only for fear to silence the truth, a mother keeping him for welfare money, a father in Florida refusing him at the door, and a return to the predator who blamed him for a building fire and told him to his face he wished he was dead.
18. The Threshold7:57
The Threshold is about the moment darkness found a door — a curious boy picking up the Necronomicon in a strange shop, opening himself to demonic influence that grew until a friend saw a beast standing beside him in his own room, and two believers prayed over him until he stood on a battlefield between light and darkness, where an angel told him he had to choose — and he stepped across.
19. The Coward's Silhouette7:01
The Coward's Silhouette is about the moment the monsters stopped being giants — standing over the predator's open casket as a teenager and whispering "now you're dead," then facing his mother's brother at a kitchen table and watching the man who once terrorized him crumble when the boy he used to break finally looked back without fear.
20. The Skyline and the Silence5:37
The Skyline and the Silence is about finally breaking free — building a life in New York as a web consultant, playing bass in a band getting radio play, owning a door with a key for the first time, until the night a demon from the old life appeared in the corner of the room, watched him breathe, and faded away when he refused to give it a name.
21. The Lady in White Lace6:28
The Lady in White Lace is about surviving September 11th on a bus while hands pounded the glass outside, then returning to a silent apartment with no job, no calls, and a knife at his wrist — until a ghost appeared in the bedroom doorway, a woman in white lace with no feet, who waved his hand away from the blade and stayed with him for thirty nights while a radio played the same song on its own.
22. The Sentinel's Hiss6:18
The Sentinel's Hiss is about meeting his future wife at the last possible moment, moving to her parents' house near a cemetery where the shadows followed, and the night his cat arched her back and chased a full-black phantom down the hall with a hiss — leaving the whole house shaking and his wife calling up from below asking what he was doing with the vacuum.
23. Fallen Wings6:24
Fallen Wings is about a dream so real his wife heard him speaking aloud in a language she didn't recognize — standing before the throne of God with an angel arguing his case, begging not to be cast into human flesh, waking in a sweat with an Aramaic plea still on his lips and the memory of a brother angel weeping for him in heaven.
24. Holy Touch6:20
Holy Touch is about the night a hand pressed against his chest while he was sick and fading — not fire, not fear, just a cold clean silence like winter water rinsing out the dark — and how when it lifted, the weight of the world came rushing back, leaving him weeping and forever changed by what he had briefly felt.
25. The Forbidden Doors8:40
A hypnosis session opened more than childhood. A hallway of doors. The Hall of Souls. The Tribunal. His own face kneeling before the Throne. A white light took him.
26. Acoustic Scars6:38
Acoustic Scars is a eulogy for his older cousin — one of the wandering three — who broke down weeping in his wife's arms in New York, who played acoustic blues with him and wanted to write a song about what they survived, but was taken by the darkness before he could. This is that song, written for all three of them.
27. The Final Chapter6:59
The Final Chapter is the closing of the book — an ordained minister who still sees demons grinning through strangers on the subway, who lost his best friend and his cousin, who promised as a frightened boy long ago that his own children would only ever know safety and joy, and who now closes the record with a message of love for his wife and his children.
28. The Final Prayer5:07
The Final Prayer is the closing declaration of the album — spoken first through the veil of the angelic character, then surrendered as a personal prayer and dedication from the man who lived every word of it.