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Angeles

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Angeles Lyrics

[Intro]
Angeles

[Verse 1]
Angels, answer me
Are you near if rain should fall?
Am I to believe
You will rise to calm the storm?
For so great a treasure words will never do
Surely, if this is
Promises are mine to give you
Mine to give

[Chorus 1]
Here, all too soon the day!
Wish the moon to fall and alter out tomorrow
I should know
Heaven has her way
Each one given memories to own

[Verse 2]
Angeles, all could be
Should you move both earth and sea
Angeles, I could feel
All those dark clouds disappearing
[Interlude]

[Chorus 2]
Even as I breathe
Comes an angel to their keep
Surely, if this is
Promises are mine to give you
Mine to give

[Outro]
Angeles
Angeles

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4th track off her 1991 album Shepherd Moons.

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What did Enya say about "Angeles"?
Genius Answer

Lyricist Roma Ryan said in the album’s liner notes:

At times we ask for extraordinary things to happen in our lives and somehow, deep down, we believe that they will. Someone, somewhere, may have the power to help us – a Guardian Angel perhaps, some spiritual minder, a protector from life’s darker moments.
Such a belief can be a comfort in life, an easy relationship with a world beyond our own. A gentle hand on your shoulder to guide you through, though not away from, the harder times.

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Vocals
Clarinet
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Recorded At
Aigle Studios, Artane, Dublin, Ireland; SARM West Studios, London, UK
Release Date
November 4, 1991
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