| We Are The Fallen – Sleep Well, My Angel Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song seems like it was written from my mother's heart when she sits in bed and cries in the middle of the night thinking about my brother who we lost to suicide three years ago. I'm 35 right now. At the time, he was 30, nearly done with a Ph.D. from Oxford University. He was Bipolar I and absolutely brilliant, her "angel." She constantly blames herself, "I'm sorry." And tries to think of the beautiful times, especially when he was a child, like previous comments implied about the innocence of a child and how little ones like to build forts. Eventually, illness and adulthood take childlike magic and turn forts to decay. When her thoughts of him haunt her at night, she'll say out loud, "Honey, I need to sleep. Go to sleep, baby. I'll talk to you in the morning." This song was just a sublime mix of the beautiful, the terrifying, the deep sorrow and the tragedy that is losing a loved one to suicide....at least for me.....especially from a mother's point-of-view. |
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