The Music That The Angels Do - Listener, Dan Smith

I want to be the insulin, the needle medicines instrument

With every increment, killing it, filling it, then revealing that…

Although presumptuous with the outcome

Where doubt runs in large sums

I speak the words given to me like spouts run

Whispered through the moon

Sky, fire, water, and the earth

To these ears and eyes, aspired this father to birth

Listeners, don’t be so sure when that time comes a knockin'

That you haven’t been watching that wrong clock

Tic talking to you, telling you

«It's alright, It’s okay, follow me, forget what you’re doing let’s all go this

way»

But if you listen, if you really try to be that silent person

You’ll know that you need some more time for rehearsing

You’re on the clouds now, go there

Don’t worry for us, you’re where you dreamed about

Sung about, don’t think about us

And although grim words reap what they sow, that you know

As the angels sing their songs, so you know what you know

You think you know, but you don’t because we all have to die

And we fight it, we fight it like we can win against the sky

Or time or death

Or youth or earth or what we have

It’s what the angels do for all it’s worth

So here’s a stab

It’s not rap, or rock it’s not pop or independent

It’s the language of love

And death with every remnant

Scissors cuts paper

Paper covers rock

Rock crushes scissors

And it all falls apart

People it all falls apart and you’re left holding your heart

Massaging it hard, but we can’t get it to start

And they sing for us, but we don’t want to hear it

They watch over us, and we hide our own spirit

Well they do it all for love even though we’re all used

It’s the music that the angels do

Oh they sing for us, but all we seem to do is hide

They watch over for us, and we keep it all inside

See they do it for love, even though we’re all used

It’s the music that the angels do

(Huh!)

You’re not drinking enough there, buddy

To drown out the sound

So take it easy there young one

We’re all lost and found people

With profound calling

All bound and falling together

But no matter whether your to my arm or to foot

I’ll hold you out like you’re my heart

And let people read this book

It doesn’t have a sound

But, Oh, i’ll let it fill my ears

You can’t touch it, smell it, see it

But it will bring you years

Oh It’s knowledge, it’s wisdom

It’s so much more than right now

It’s in your breath

It gives you life

It’s the answer to all your how’s

And I’m nothing

I really believe that in the grand scheme of things

I’m just doing my part

Trying to say these things to you from my heart

Let the tears drown out your thoughts

And think closely of home

And if you can’t compose yourself

It’s best to compose a poem

Right here where it’s empty

From where it’s empty and hurting

Let it float away like a feather

Or whatever but without burden

I’m a child, and so are you

So let’s learn it all again

Flip the page again

And hit the stage of life again and again

I’m not scared anymore

It’s because of you who saw me through

The music that the angels do

I listen and translate what they say for you