Day 4: A Song That Makes Me Sad

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Angel by Judas Priest from Angel of Retribution (2005)


One of my favorite ballads and the few songs I've actually cried listening to. It is simply beautiful, the lyrics, music and rhythm. I think I heard it while waiting for a friend at school. I believe, if memory serves right, I was sitting by myself by the driveway near the garden area, impatient and annoyed, and this song played on my iPod - because it was on shuffle mode - and I just stood still, taking it in.


It moved me in so many ways. That's what music is supposed to do right? Make you feel all the emotions it is meant to make you feel and then some. Judas Priest is legendary, what they've done for heavy metal music makes my respect and adore them. I am yet to find a song (or album) of theirs that hasn't lived up to my expectations... Actually, I hope I never do :)







Lyrics By Rob Halford


Angel, put sad wings around me now
Protect me from this world of sin so that we can rise again

Oh angel, we can find our way somehow
Escaping from the world we're in to a place where we began
And I know we'll find a better place and piece of mind
Just tell me that it's all you want for you and me
Angel won't you set me free

Angel, remember how we chased the sun
Then reaching for the stars at night as our lives had just begun
When I close my eyes, I hear your velvet wings and cry
I'm waiting here with open arms
Oh can't you see, Angel shine your light on me


Angel we'll meet once more, I'll pray, when all my sins are washed away
Hold me inside your wings and stay, Angel take me far away

Put your sad wings around me now
Angel take me far away
Put sad wings around me now
So that we can rise again
Put sad wings around me now
Angel take me far away
Put sad wings around me now
So that we can rise again

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