From the recording Family Portraits (Volume 1)
Everyone makes mistakes. We measure our maturity not in committing or counting those, but in how we recover from them.
We are all vulnerable ("...In the final count we are each and everyone alone...") and are in need of a touch of forgiveness at times...and a second chance. That's what the song "Touched By Angels" is about.
Only rarely is it in human beauty that we are "touched by angels"; more more common in the way we enable others (to recover)...through the agency of forgiveness. Our ability to forgive is what is "angelic" about us humans. It's where we are truly "touched by angels".
As the lyric to the song goes:
"...It’s rarely faces that are touched by the breath of angels
More often people
Their relationships
The space between them..."
Forgiveness is probably the strongest power we have. It's the one things we have which is truly "touched by angels".
This song is dedicated to my much-loved daughter Anneka, for her capacity for love and for giving second chances. With all my love, always. x
Lyrics
Touched By Angels
It’s rarely faces that are touched by the breath of angels
More often people
Their relationships
The space between them
In the cracks that open up
You and me both
In the final count we are each and everyone alone
I made mistakes
I made your heart
Break
Into pieces
On the floor
You touched by Angels
You do amaze me
I am so sorry
I was not there
When your whole world, yeah
Disappeared
Now touched by Angels
I will keep reaching for your grace
Ain’t it always the case
That it’s sinners
Touched by God’s grace?
Folk on the wrong path
With priorities
That don’t stack up
To scrutiny
Now you’re lonely
And stuck between
A rock and
A hard place
As good as any
For epiphany
I made mistakes
I made your heart
Break
Into pieces
On the floor
You touched by Angels
You do amaze me
I am so sorry
I made you cry
I don’t know why
I didn’t reach out
Now touched by Angels
I will keep on working on myself
Now there ain’t
In this world
A parent
With no
Regrets
A sense of apology
I made mistakes
I made your heart
Break
Into pieces
On the floor
You touched by Angels
You do amaze me
I am so sorry
I was not there
When your whole world, yeah
Disappeared
Now touched by Angels
I will keep on praying for your grace
Na, na, na
Na, na, na