Like An Angel

by Anne Sofie von Otter & Elvis Costello

From the album: For the Stars

Track 8 of 18 on For the Stars (2001).

Duration: 4:58

For the Stars cover art

Lyrics for Like An Angel

Long awaited darkness falls Casting shadows on the walls In the twilight hour I am alone Sitting near the fireplace, dying embers warm my face In this peaceful solitude All the outside world subdued Everything comes back to me again In the gloom Like an angel passing through my room Half awake and half in dreams Seeing long forgotten scenes So the present runs into the past Now and then become entwined, playing games within my mind Like the embers as they die Love was one prolonged good-bye And it all comes back to me tonight In the gloom Like an angel passing through my room I close my eyes And my twilight images go by All too soon Like an angel passing through my room

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More from For the Stars

  1. No Wonder
  2. Baby Plays Around
  3. Go Leave
  4. Rope
  5. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
  6. Broken Bicycles (Waits) – Junk (McCartney)
  7. The Other Woman
  8. Like An Angel
  9. Green Song Based on a Solo Cello Piece by the CPS
  10. April After All
  11. You Still Believe In Me
  12. I Want To Vanish
  13. For No One
  14. Shamed Into Love
  15. Just A Curio
  16. This House Is Empty Now
  17. Take It With Me
  18. For The Stars