Robbie Williams - Angels

Angels (Official Music Video)

The fourth single from 'Life Thru A Lens', and the first song that Robbie wrote with Guy Chambers. Released as a single at the beginning of December 1997, it spent twelve consecutive weeks on the UK Top 10 and peaked at No. 4. It has returned to the chart on numerous occasions in the intervening years, with streaming figures now in excess of 380 million.
Lyrics
I sit and wait
Does an angel contemplate my fate?
Do they know
The places where we go when we're grey and old?
'Cause I've been told
That salvation lets their wings unfold
So when I'm lying in my bed
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel that love is dead
I'm loving angels instead
And through it all, she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection, whether I'm right or wrong
And down the waterfall, wherever it may take me
I know that life won't break me, when I come to call
She won't forsake me
I'm loving angels instead, wow
When I'm feeling weak
And my pain walks down a one-way street
I look above
And I know I'll always be blessed with love
And as the feeling grows
She breathes flesh to my bones
And when love is dead
(I'm loving angels instead)
when I come to call, come on!
(She won't forsake me)
I'm loving angels instead
Come on!
One last time
And through it all, she offers me protection
A lot of love and affection, whether I'm right or wrong
Down the waterfall, wherever it may take me
(I know that life won't break me) when I come to call
She won't forsake me
I'm loving angels instead
Knebworth, I love you!

A public vote for the 2005 BRIT Awards, where Robbie performed the song as a duet with Joss Stone, named 'Angels' the best song in the previous twenty-five years. In June 2018, his chosen duet partner was Taylor Swift, when the pair performed 'Angels' onstage at Wembley Stadium in London.

The promo video for 'Angels' was filmed at Staunton Sands, a beach on the North Devon Coast in England, and directed by Vaughan Arnell. Vaughan had directed videos for the Spice Girls and George Michael, and would work with Robbie again on multiple projects.