Trevor2711
From All Saints Church Kenley
New Song - ‘Here Rests An Angel’. I wrote this in September of 2009 and recorded it that winter. I play the guitar and Felicity Stringer is the vocalist. She has also arranged and plays the flute parts.
Its inspiration comes from a photograph I’d taken of an old tombstone whilst in France. ‘Ici Repose un Ange’ (Here Rests An Angel), is commonly written on a infants grave. I was holidaying again in France and intending to write some songs, when I re-looked at the photograph and the words ’Here Rests An Angel’ just seemed to be a beautiful opening line and it went from there!
I think its intended to say that God is waiting for us at our final destination no matter where, how or at what stage we are in our lives. The four stages being infant, child, adult and elderly. But of course its open to interpretation!
Please give your thoughts. Here are the lyrics:-
Here rests and angel from our past
An angel next to you
Seeing, being in your embrace
Resting in your arms just to be
On a journey so complete and now set free
Here sings a child of innocence
A child untouched by fear
Needing, feeding on your love
Safe in the comfort that you share
A canvas so blank and so laid bare
Here is a life lived so kind
A life lived in your name
Growing, flowing for evermore
Doing the things one knows one should
Before your eyes and guiding fatherhood
Here are the eyes of an aged man
The eyes that say it all
Willing, steering their way up now
Nearing that day they’ll gaze on you
Ignited by a flame o so true
Here rest an angel with his heart
Given up to you
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Hello Ian,
Thank you for your comments I'm new to this site and this is my first post. You're not being 'picky', feedback is all part of the process and is warmly received! I guess that I didn't want to pigeon hole this song into any particular bracket, though I don't think that I would have expected it to be sung by a congregation. I've never performed it and am not entirely sure where, when or even if I would. I have wondered if it could be even be used at a funeral? However, that was never planned during the writing and it certainly wasn't intended as a sad song.
The obscurity about past, present and future is meant to say that as an infant, child, adult etc... when our time is come to pass, that we've hopefully not only lived our lives no matter how long or short under God eyes and protection, but will continue to do so as and when we join him. This pertains to those who have already left us and of course to all of us who hopefully will join him in time!
It isn't intended to be too 'deep' or 'heavy' in it's meaning and on reading this back I'm not entirely sure if I've explained this as best as I could! But I can only only hope that it's a simple, pleasant song that might mean something to someone???
God bless and kind regards.
It could be used to illustrate a talk. Funerals are very specific to the person - I wonder if the message is more general as it covers several different situations in which people might die? My advice from my own experience would be not to be afraid of thinking about the purpose of the song and reworking it accordingly.
Thanks Ian,
Obviously funerals are extremely personal and as you've rightly said the message is somewhat 'general', My thoughts on that possibility were equally vague and I would have no intention to push the song in any particular direction - who knows what will happen to it? However, this is a useful site to get feedback from more than just direct friends and I really must sit down to listen to some of the other offerings! All the best.
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Hello Trevor, and thanks for sharing your song. I was wondering what your intentions for it were. Do you intend it to be sung by a congregation or to be done as a performance to inspire worship? If the former, I think that it would be rather counter-intuitive as every line has a different tune - if you changed the lyrics to give the first and third lines the same tune it would be easier to pick up. The words are generally well set but I think you should avoid stressing words like 'the'. The imagery is a bit obscure - I don't understand 'Here rests and angel from our past, An angel next to you.' Sorry to sound a bit picky but lyrics are so crucial. There are so many songs out there that a song has to tick all the boxes for me to use it as a worship leader. God bless you with your song writing.
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