anonymous September 13th, 2008 07:46PM  
This song may be soothing but it is actually about drug addiction.

anonymous October 23rd, 2008 06:21PM  
I totally agree with the drug addiction thing- and I didn't figure it out until recently, while watching my sister fight an endless battle with hardcore drugs (meth, cocaine, and heroine) to cover the pain of her past she's scared to face.

I saw Sarah McLachlan endorse an animal adoption agency on a commercial that played this song and I couldn't help but think how unfitting it was.

Before that, I just thought it was a lovely, lullaby-like song.

anonymous December 20th, 2008 07:26PM  
I think from the lyrics it is obvious that it is talking about addiction. I don't think it matters what the addiction is TO, just that it is about wanting to let go and 'escape'

anonymous December 26th, 2008 06:52PM  
i heard that she actually wrote this song about the lead singer of Blind Melon with whom i think she was good friends. When she says 'may you find some comfort here' she's perhaps talking about him finally finding comfort in death, 'in the arms of an angel' he overdosed in 1995

k2dat1 March 19th, 2009 11:38AM  
"Angel" is a song by Sarah McLachlan that originally appeared on her 1997 album Surfacing. As McLachlan explained on VH1 Storytellers, the song is about the Smashing Pumpkins touring keyboard player Jonathan Melvoin, who overdosed on heroin and died in 1996. McLachlan explained that there's nothing constant when you are on the road; everything becomes the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(Sarah_McLachlan_song)