Calling All Angels

"Calling All Angels" is the title of a 2003 song by the rock band Train. It was included on the band's third studio album, My Private Nation, and produced by Brendan O'Brien. The song was the first to be released from My Private Nation in 2003 and peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also spent three weeks atop the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart that same year. The song features Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar. "Calling All Angels" was nominated for two Grammy Awards at the ceremony held in February 2004. In the category Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group, the song lost out to "Disorder in the House" by Bruce Springsteen and Warren Zevon; in the category Best Rock Song, the winner was "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes. The song has also been prominent in pop culture appearing in several television shows including One Tree Hill and as the theme song in the intro for the short lived medical drama 3 lbs. Train also performed the song at the 2006 Pepsi Super Bowl Smash. The song is also played at Angel Stadium before every Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim game while the video screen shows a montage of the team's history. This song was also recently performed on the CSI:NY episode "Second Chances." The song received mixed reviews from rock critics, with Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly giving the song a B+ and calling it "an anthemic hymn to commitment...that builds steadily to a gloriously clanging climax." Matt Lee of the BBC was less impressed, describing the track as "pedestrian, the vocals soulless, even more so than" the band's biggest hit single, "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)".

[Verse 1] I need a sign to let me know you're here All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere I need to know that things are gonna look up 'Cause I feel us drowning in a sea spilled from a cup When there is no place safe And no safe place to put my head When you feel the world shake From the words that are said [Chorus] And I'm calling all angels And I'm calling all you angels I won't give up if you don't give up I won't give up if you don't give up I won't give up if you don't give up I won't give up if you don't give up [Verse 2] I need a sign to let me know you're here 'Cause my TV set just keeps it all from being clear I want a reason for the way things have to be I need a hand to help build up Some kind of hope inside of me [Chorus] And I'm calling all angels And I'm calling all you angels [Bridge] When children have to play inside So they don't disappear While private eyes solve marriage lies 'Cause we don't talk for years And football teams are kissing queens And losing sight of having dreams In a world that what we want Is only what we want until it's ours [Chorus] And I'm calling all angels And I'm calling all you angels [Chorus] And I'm calling all angels (I won't give up if you don't give up) (I won't give up if you don't give up) And calling all you angels (I won't give up if you don't give up) (I won't give up if you don't give up) [Outro] Calling all you angels (I won't give up if you don't give up) [Repeat 'til fade]