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Music and Vocal, Rudy Armando and Sarah Ann Maclalan
McLachlan revealed that the song inspired by another musician. Inspired by the death of Jonathan Melvoin, a keyboardist for the band The Smashing Pumpkins, who tragically passed away from a heroin overdose in 1996.
Wrote the song after reading an article about his death, feeling a deep empathy for his situation and expressing the idea of finding peace and comfort in the arms of an angel after leaving this world. Jonathan Melvoin was the keyboardist for the Smashing Pumpkins before his death after a heroin overdose in 1996.
Sarah Ann Mclachlan wrote,
"That song in two days. After being on the road for almost two years straight and was both mentally and physically drained.
I went to a cottage north of Montreal to relax and write and read an article in Rolling Stone about the Smashing Pumpkins keyboard player who had OD'ed in a hotel room."
The story shook me because though I have never done hard drugs like that, I felt a flood of empathy for him and that feeling of being lost an lonely an desperately searching for some kind of release."
In the Arms of the 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 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
(Rudy Amado Perez / Sarah Ann Mclachlan)
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