Your Guardian Angel

"Your Guardian Angel" is a song by the band the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. There are two different versions - a mostly acoustic version found on their first major-label album, Don't You Fake It, and a completely acoustic version (titled "The Acoustic Song") on their demo album. "Your Guardian Angel" was released to radio on August 7, 2007.^[3] It is the third single released by the band, with the video released on October 15, 2007. It was featured in the season finale of the CBS show Moonlight titled "Mortal Cure". According to Ronnie Winter, the song is dedicated to the eight students that lost their lives in the March 1, 2007 tornado that destroyed a high school in Enterprise, Alabama. The song was the school's prom theme that year.^{[citation needed]}

ReleasedAugust 7, 2007

GenreEmo^[1][2]

Length3:49

LabelVirgin

Quick facts Single by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, from the album Don't You Fake It ...

"Your Guardian Angel"
Single by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
from the album Don't You Fake It
Released	August 7, 2007
Genre	Emo[1][2]
Length	3:49
Label	Virgin
Songwriter	Ronnie Winter
Producer	David Bendeth
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus singles chronology
"False Pretense" (2007) "Your Guardian Angel" (2007) "You Better Pray" (2008)

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The song explores themes such as altruism and love.^[4]

The album version at the end, which leads into the hidden track; "The Grimm Goodbye".

Winter stated that the song was originally planned to be the album's lead single, but the label thought it would be "too risky" to use a ballad as the album's first single. "Face Down" was chosen as the lead single instead.^[5]