Does Anyone Else Love This Song?

[SPKrazy]

I came across it in my i-tunes library and forgot I had it on there. Listened to it and it struck me in kind of a sad, yet hopeful way.
And Sarah McLaughlin has a beautiful voice.

Don't know what anyone else thinks, here's a link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HU1OaCglgw0

Angel
Sarah McLaughlin

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 then 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 feel
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
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 feel
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

[BarenakedLady]

1. Yes

I do love Sarah and many of her songs, including that one.

[SPKrazy]

2. It Is Kind Of Sad

I put it on my playlist to download to my ipod

but I'm wondering since I usually listen to it at the gym. Not exactly a workout tune, but on the other hand, some songs that I've never thought of as songs to work out actually pluck my heart strings in ways that give me inspiration to work even harder. Why work so hard? It's kept me sane over the last 6 months or so. Or I'm assuming it has?

:hug:

[idgiehkt]

3. they played that at my friend Melinda's funeral

It always makes me have mixed emotions. Melinda was an ex-addict who had been clean for five years when she was killed in a car accident. She had gone from gutter-bottom to being in college and she was going to school to get her grades when the man in front of her stopped suddenly. The man behind Melinda's car didn't stop and she was crushed between those vehicles. She had a five-year old daughter. That's what that song always makes me think about, how weird life is; like why would the universe take her, who has a child and who was busting her ass trying to make something of herself and get a better life for her and her child, and not me, who is essentially just taking up space on the planet not doing much of anything? I don't understand it...I always get in a really pensive mood when I hear that song.

[SPKrazy]

4. Sorry To Dehance Your Mood idgiehkt

I have had many people who are recovering die, but they died clean is what I tell myself.

Who the hell knows why though.

that's a sad story.

I don't think you are just "taking up space"

:hug:

[idgiehkt]

11. me too

It seemed like my first few years everyone was dying, of AIDS, or cancer, or overdoses, or whatever. In a way I got scared to get close to people. You didn't dehance my mood; Melinda was a great, great person. I just don't know why she had to suffer so much only to have such a short period of clean time before her death. Doesn't make sense. But at least she has a great community of people surrounding her child and helping to raise her.

[SPKrazy]

13. Reminds Me Of

a good friend of mine who I met early in my recovery

he'd been out in LA living on the street, his folks found him and brought him home and he went into treatment. He found out he had HIV in about 1983 or so. He lived until 1988 which was I guess pretty long for back then. He never could tolerate the meds for his HIV. I remember talking to him and how he had started smoking pot again to deal with the loss of weight and I think the abject terror he was experiencing.

I'm glad your friend's child has people that care about her and that help.

I also can say that I've seen friends who said- one more time- and went out and died like the first time drinking or using again. car wrecks, and od's.

Glad I didn't dehance your mood any.

I'm feeling kind of bad about posting this thread right now. I guess I could ask for it to be deleted?

:hi:

[Broken_Hero]

5. Yes, Sarah is very damn good...

one of my top three favorite female vocalists...:D

[Bullwinkle925]

6. I chose that song for my sister's gravesite burial ....

there were only 4 of us there and I thought it appropriate to play. My sister's name is 'Sara' - no "h". She's been gone for 5 years now and every time I hear that tune I naturally go back to that day.
It is a lovely song.

[SPKrazy]

8. I'm Sorry

I'm feeling bad for posting this now

It is lovely, but it seems to be too much of a reminder of sadness for people including myself I suppose.

:-(

[Bullwinkle925]

12. Oh no - don't be.

It's a beautiful song.

[SPKrazy]

14. One Of The More Strange Things

I've experienced about a funeral/memorial song is:

My mother, who was a very devout atheist, set up her own memorial.

In it she had songs that she dedicated to her mother, father, and sister who had preceded her.

I'm drawing a blank at the moment as to which one this was dedicated to, but it surprised me no end:
I come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses;
And the voice I hear,
Falling on my ear;
The Son of God discloses.

And He walks with me,
and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.


He speaks, and the sound of His voice
Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,
And the melody
That He gave to me,
Within my heart is ringing.

And He walks with me,
and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

I'd stay in the garden with Him
Tho' the night around me be falling,
But He bids me go;
Thru the voice of woe,
His voice to me is calling.

And He walks with me,
and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own,
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.

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I work in a geriatric psychiatry unit and the patients often like to sing old time gospel songs. This is one that they almost always sing. It tore me up the first time I heard them singing it after her death a year ago. But now it just is a song that has new meaning for me.

[Bullwinkle925]

15. I grew up with that song.

It's hard to grow up in the Bible Belt and never hear that one.
Funny that your mother would select a gospel as one of her songs - even if she were dedicating it to someone else. It shows that her love for this family member transcended all other beliefs that she had.
Sorry for your loss. It is so difficult to carry on after suffering such losses.

[twilight_sailing]

7. Sarah McLachlan is God

[SPKrazy]

9. I Thought She Might Be!

but I'm feeling bad about posting this song today.

:hi:

[flvegan]

10. Yes! Featured in "The Witness" a Tribe of Heart productions

[AlCzervik]

16. that was played at my friends mothers wake, i like the song but thats what it

reminds me of.

[Haole Girl]

17. Why...why did I listen to it?

When will I ever learn. :cry:

[GirlinContempt]

18. No. Just you.