ANGEL
SARAH
MCLACHLAN
SONGWRITERS: SARAH MCLACHLAN & RUDY PEREZ
COUNTRY: CANADIAN
ALBUM: SURFACING AND CITY OF ANGELS
LABEL: WARNER SUNSET
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1998
Sarah Ann McLachlan(born January 28, 1968) is
a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums
worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for
which she won two Grammy Awards(out of
four nominations) and four Juno Awards. In
addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which
showcased women musicians.
"Angel" is a song by Canadian
singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan. The
song first appeared on McLachlan's fourth studio album, Surfacing, in 1997
and was released as the album's fourth and final single in September 1998. The
lyrics are about the death of Jonathan Melvoin(1961–1996),
the Smashing Pumpkins' touring
keyboard player, from a heroin overdose, as McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers. It is
sometimes mistitled as "In the Arms of an Angel" or "Arms of the
Angel".
"Angel" was McLachlan's second
consecutive top-five hit on the US Billboard Hot 100,
peaking at number four. It also spent 12 weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult
Contemporary chart, placing as the number-one
song on that chart for 1999. In McLachlan's native Canada, it reached number
seven on the RPM Top Singles
chart and number three on the Adult Contemporary chart. Outside North America, the song
has charted in several countries in the years following its release, including
reaching number seven in Ireland in 2002 and number nine in Norway in 2008.
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 a beautiful release
Memories seep 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 lies
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
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
You're in the arms of the angel
May you find some comfort here.
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