Lyrics to
Angels At My Gate

This version of Angels At My Gate was released by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1979.

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There’s a finger on the dial,
The lucky wheel goes round,
Little joker knows he can’t escape.
The same time every year,
The fun fair’s back in town,
Numbers in the air like ticker tape.

58, 56, 54,
Good angels at my door.
63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58,
Good angels at my gate.

Throw a seven down,
Place another bet,
The joker laughs as the stakes get higher.
The gambler and the clown,
Without a safety net,
Balancing unsteady on a wire.

58, 56, 54,
Good angels at my door.
63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58,
Good angels at my gate.

There’s a finger on the dial,
The lucky wheel goes round,
Little joker knows he can’t escape.
The same time every year,
The fun fair’s back in town,
Numbers in the air like ticker tape.

58, 56, 54,
Good angels at my door.
63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58,
Good angels at my gate.
59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54,
Good angels at my door.
63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58,
Good angels at my gate.
59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54,

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About Lyrics and Angels At My Gate by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

When you decide to study the lyrics to Angels At My Gate, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Some of the lyrics to Angels At My Gate have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Manfred Mann's Earth Band and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Angels At My Gate if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Angels At My Gate" means the words set to the music of Angels At My Gate, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Angels At My Gate and the lyrics to Angels At My Gate are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Manfred Mann's Earth Band who came here looking just for the lyrics to Angels At My Gate, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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