“Angel”is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlanabout the heroin overdose death of Jonathan Melvoin (1961-1996), the Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboard player, as McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers. The song first appeared on Surfacing, the Canadian singer’s 1997 album. McLachlan said that the song is about “trying not to take responsibility for other people’s problems and trying to love yourself at the same time”.
The song has had enduring popularity. It is often used to highlight emotional scenes on television shows, and has been featured in a number of soundtracks (including the film City of Angelsand TV’s Alias, As the World Turns, Cold Case, Dawson’s Creek, Early Edition, Felicity, General Hospital, Providence, Strong Medicine, and The Pretender). In addition, it is also used as a song of comfort and healing, most often following tragic events such as the death on Diana, Princess of Wales in August 1997, the April 1999 Columbine High School massacre and the September 11, 2001 attacks.
《天使》是加拿大天才女歌手莎拉·麥克拉克蘭最膾炙人口的作品之一。該曲因成為電影《天使之城》的主題曲而廣為流傳，歌曲與劇情完美融合——當為與心愛的凡人女醫生（梅格.瑞恩）廝守一生而放棄永生的天使（尼古拉斯·凱奇）縱身一跳，當心愛之人遭遇事故在天使懷中離開塵世……空靈的歌聲、哀傷的曲調令人不禁淚目……這首歌曲已成為很多紀念日和人們紀念親人的療愈曲。
Angel
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
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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▲ 莎拉·麥克拉克蘭現場版
▲ 電影《天使之城》剪輯版
▲ 西城男孩翻唱版
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