48 WISH I HAD AN ANGEL
Nightwish
Nightwish were nearing the end of a five-album run with original, co-founding singer Tarja Turunen when they had their biggest- selling album, Once, and their highest charting single in the UK (No.60) with Wish I Had An Angel. Given the Finnish band’s current arena-headlining status, it’s odd to consider that this commercial high point was more than 15 years ago.
Some people have speculated that the anthemic Wish I Had An Angel is about a Valkyrie that craves spending her life with a human, ‘burning [her] angel wings to dust’ to sacrifice immortality in order to do so. Regardless of the subject matter, the track is a sublime summation of the band’s symphonic bombast. DL From: Once, 2004