Angel

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Many of us have become used to working from home..but I always find myself getting distracted by my piano. I recorded this little music video when I should have been working. Luckily I work for myself..so nobody told me off.

I first heard this beautiful song at a funeral and I sat there weeping because of the music, even though I didn't know the deceased person very well. As I listened to the words I became aware that they weren't really quite what I had expected, and were not really appropriate for a funeral.

Upon first listening, the song seems to be about a suicide victim being taken to heaven by an angel, but actually the lyric 'The Arms of Angel' describes the release felt by a person who is addicted to hard drugs. The writer Sarah MacLaghlan says it is a song about the loneliness, addiction, depression and the eventual heroin overdose in 1996 of the musician Jonathan Melvoin, who toured with The Smashing Pumpkins.

Angel (Lyrics)

Spend all your time waiting
For that second chance
For a break that would make it okay
There's always some reason
To feel not good enough
And it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
Oh beautiful release
Memory seeps from my veins
Let me be empty
Oh, and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

In the arms of the angel
Fly away from here
From this dark cold hotel room
And the endlessness that you fear
You are pulled from the wreckage
Of your silent reverie
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here

So tired of the straight line
And everywhere you turn
There's vultures and thieves at your back
And the storm keeps on twisting
You keep on building the lie
That you make up for all that you lack
It don't make no difference
Escaping one last time
It's easier to believe in this sweet madness oh
This glorious sadness that brings me to my knees