Precious Angel

[sjh88]

User: BiteUrLip
Artist: Bob Dylan
Album: Slow Train Coming
Year: 1979
Writer(s): Bob Dylan

Lyrics:

Precious angel, under the sun
How was I to know you’d be the one
To show me I was blinded, to show me I was gone
How weak was the foundation I was standing upon?

Now there’s spiritual warfare and flesh and blood breaking down
Ya either got faith or ya got unbelief and there ain’t no neutral ground
The enemy is subtle, how be it we are so deceived
When the truth’s in our hearts and we still don’t believe?

Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Ya know I just couldn’t make it by myself
I’m a little too blind to see

My so-called friends have fallen under a spell
They look me squarely in the eye and they say, “All is well”
Can they imagine the darkness that will fall from on high
When men will beg God to kill them and they won’t be able to die?

Sister, lemme tell you about a vision I saw
You were drawing water for your husband, you were suffering under the law
You were telling him about Buddha, you were telling him about Mohammed in the same breath
You never mentioned one time the Man who came and died a criminal’s death

Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Ya know I just couldn’t make it by myself
I’m a little too blind to see

Precious angel, you believe me when I say
What God has given to us no man can take away
We are covered in blood, girl, you know our forefathers were slaves
Let us hope they’ve found mercy in their bone-filled graves

You’re the queen of my flesh, girl, you’re my woman, you’re my delight
You’re the lamp of my soul, girl, and you torch up the night
But there’s violence in the eyes, girl, so let us not be enticed
On the way out of Egypt, through Ethiopia, to the judgment hall of Christ

Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Shine your light, shine your light on me
Ya know I just couldn’t make it by myself
I’m a little too blind to see

[Rekko]

"Slow Train Coming" is Bob Dylan's first CCM album. "Precious Angel" is beautiful, yet it has lots of warnings about getting lost. Dylan's voice is very good. The music is very good, perhaps musically the best song of the album. It is a little bit too long.

48 points -> 5 stars

[sjh88]

Quite ok song, but not my favourite. Maybe its too old music for me.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

[BiteUrLip]

This is maybe my favorite from the album.

5 stars.

[jaky]

His first ccm-album have strong material. I like this very much. Melody and lyrics are great. The voice is average.

4.5 stars (44p)