Sting - When The Angels Fall

Album: The soul cages 1991

So high above the world tonight
The angels watch us sleeping
And underneath a bridge of stars
We dream in safety's keeping

But perhaps the dream
Is dreaming us
Soaring with the seagulls
Astride the backs of eagles

When the angels fall
Shadows on the wall
In the thunder's call
Something haunts us all

When the angels fall
When the angels fall

Take your father's cross
Gently from the wall
A shadow still remaining
See the churches fall

In mighty arcs of sound
And all that they're containing
Yet all the ragged souls
Of all the ragged men

Looking for their lost homes
Shuffle to the ruins
From the levelled plain
To search among the tombstones

When the angels fall
Shadows on the wall
In the thunder's call
Something haunts us all

When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall

These are my feet
These are my hands
These are my children
And this is my demand

Bring down the angels
Cast them from my sight
I never want to see
A million suns at midnight

Your hands are empty
The streets are empty
You can't control us
You can't control us anymore

When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall

When the angels fall
When the angels fall

[Politis-jp]

When the Angel Falls is an incredible masterpiece—an intimate reflection on one’s relationship with existence itself. It confronts the quiet fear we all carry about life, death, and the meaning in between

[michaelparylak]

Longtime Sting fan. Only recently really listened to this song and fell in love with it.😍

[sarangcemut]

There’s something mystical about this song

[uncleguike]

RIP DAD, August 23, 2012 you put me on to STING. YOU WERE A PIECE OF SHIT BUT ILL NEVER FORGET YOU.

[stephenwyatt]

Ah, you left out the "good night" at the end.

Aside from that, this is an exceptional song from an album that I fully appreciate now.

[mariadelmarpradesbravo]

Por las almas de todos los difuntos que no encuentran... 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹💔

[alk]

Faisal Alkaabi (May 5, 1933 - Jan. 1, 2019) RIP Papa.

[bigtone]

I just got turned on to this song looking through my deceased uncle's music collection who, coincidentally didn't believe much in religion.

[Hrothgar]

There`s something mournful and almost regretful in this song...as if Sting should know better than to have the beliefs he declaims in this song. There is a sense of ineffable loss. And yet, it all turns around by the end of the song, where there is complete liberation from the oppression of organized religion - Judeo-Christianity, in particular.

[vedranaflips]

What does this song have that others don't?