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She never mentions the word addiction
In certain company.
Yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan
After you meet her family.
She paints her eyes as black as night now.
She pulls those shades down tight.
Yeah, she gives me a smile when the pain comes.
The pain gonna make everything alright.
[Chorus:]
Says she talks to angels.
They call her out by her name.
Oh yeah, she talks to angels.
Says they call her out by her name.
She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket.
She wears a cross around her neck.
The hair is from a little boy,
And the cross from someone she has not met, well, not yet
[Chorus]
She don't know no lover,
None that I ever seen.
Yeah, to her that ain't nothing
But to me it means, means everything.
She paints her eyes as black as night now.
Pulls those shades down tight.
There's a smile when the pain comes.
Pain's gonna make everything alright.
[Chorus]
In certain company.
Yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan
After you meet her family.
She paints her eyes as black as night now.
She pulls those shades down tight.
Yeah, she gives me a smile when the pain comes.
The pain gonna make everything alright.
[Chorus:]
Says she talks to angels.
They call her out by her name.
Oh yeah, she talks to angels.
Says they call her out by her name.
She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket.
She wears a cross around her neck.
The hair is from a little boy,
And the cross from someone she has not met, well, not yet
[Chorus]
She don't know no lover,
None that I ever seen.
Yeah, to her that ain't nothing
But to me it means, means everything.
She paints her eyes as black as night now.
Pulls those shades down tight.
There's a smile when the pain comes.
Pain's gonna make everything alright.
[Chorus]
Lyrics submitted by spliphstar
Track duration: 05:29
"She Talks to Angels" as written by Christopher Mark/robinson Robinson
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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"She never mentions the word addiction
In certain company.
Yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan
After you meet her family."
This to me means that she is embarrassed by the addiction in her family. Her mother and/or father was the one with the addiction, possibly even some siblings. Because of this she never brings up addiction because it hits to close to home and she doesn't even want to be associated with her family because of THEIR problems; not hers.
"She paints her eyes as black as night now.
She pulls those shades down tight.
Yeah, she gives me a smile when the pain comes.
The pain gonna make everything alright."
This to me shows she has a lack of sleep. Her eyes are getting bags and dark circles possibly because she has many nightmares and is unable to sleep. She pulls the shades tight because she has completely detached from society because she has no one and nothing. The smile when the pain comes is like some others have suggested, a suicide attempt. She knows that the pain means death and death means seeing those she loves again which is explained in the next stanzas.
"Says she talks to angels.
They call her out by her name.
Oh yeah, she talks to angels.
Says they call her out by her name."
The angels are those she loved who have passed on. They speak to her and tell her to keep going in life. They tell her to keep on living and that everything is going to be okay. Specifically, it's her little baby calling her name.
On the flipside this could also mean the angels are calling her to them. Urging her to kill herself so she can be in heaven/afterlife with them.
"She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket.
She wears a cross around her neck.
The hair is from a little boy,
And the cross from someone she has not met, well, not yet"
This is where you find out the real reason why she is recluse and suicidal. The hair is from her baby. The baby possibly was stillborn or passed from SIDS or whatever you feel. I personally feel like the baby was stillborn and had enough hair to cut of a lock. She has yet to really meet him and therefore she wears the cross, awaiting to die to finally get to meet her baby boy.
Either that or he died later in life and the cross symbolizes her maker- whatever religion the listener desires- whom she has yet to meet and wants to do so already knowing he/she/it will reunite her with her son.
"She don't know no lover,
None that I ever seen.
Yeah, to her that ain't nothing
But to me it means, means everything."
Like I said she has become a hermit. She hates the world and everything is ugly and meaningless to her. She lost her baby. The narrator may or not be in love with her, I think by he/she saying "it means everything" is them saying that love is everything. Without love how can you possibly exist in this world. The woman has lost her family, her son what could she possibly have to love in this world. The narrator finds this extremely saddening.
"She paints her eyes as black as night now.
Pulls those shades down tight.
There's a smile when the pain comes.
Pain's gonna make everything alright."
It ends with this and then another chorus. I feel like maybe this means she was finally successful at killing herself. She hears her baby angel calling out to her and she finally gets to join him. I feel like this is a positive (in a cynical sense) ending. she is finally reunited with her baby.
Or she has finally reached acceptance and moves on with her life.
{She never mentions the word addiction
In certain company
Yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan
After you meet her family}
She's an addict deep into denial, she know's she is in trouble but she's never let on to anyone. She's an orphan because she's never felt whole, even though she has a family she is so lonely...
{She paints her eyes as black as night now
Pulls those shades down tight
Yeah, she gives a smile when the pain come
The pain gonna make everything alright}
Dark circles from all the abuse, mental, physical and emotional, She draws the shades down tight s if to close out the outer world, her inner world is enough for her to deal with and she smiles when the pain comes... When you IV Heroin there is a brief moment of pain, like your body get's hit by a brick followed so quickly with euphoria. The pain is felt, but she knows it will be followed by her short lived bliss.
{She keeps a lock of hair in her pocket
She wears a cross around her neck
Yes, the hair is from a little boy
And the cross is someone she has not met
Not yet}
The hair is from her son who she has lost but keeps in her heart, she loved him but he's gone now, forever and the cross, someone she has not met, not yet, well, that my friends has many meaning and take this one for how you wish, I chose it was Jesus...
Anyways, just my take on the song...
RIP Momma... You don't have to hide anymore..
Heroine seems pretty likely here as most have said. And the way I see it, alot of people who are doing heroine are "talking to angels" simply because they are so close to death.
If you want to look deeper. Trouble with the family is often a result of drug addiction. "She'll tell you she's an orphan."
Obviously she has lost someone. Could be a child or a sibling. Probably a child. "Lock of hair".
The last two things to comment on are how she know no lover. People who are addicted to powerful drugs, especially opiates, are likely to fixate on them as the most important thing. They don't pursue relationships. And pulling the shades down tight and painting her eyes... speaks to me of shame.
Sounds like a good person with a dangerous drug habit.
Like her family problems and whoever the lock of hair is from.
"There's a smile when the pain comes.
Pain's gonna make everything alright."... Shooting it up.
The first stanza is about her isolating herself and turning to the drugs to cope.
"She don't know no lover
None that I ever seen
But to her that aint nothin
But to me it means everything"
This means EXACTLY what it says. When you are addicted to opiates, you don't feel the urge to be intimate with other people. Most opiate addicts are single and loners, and they don't get lonely like normal people do because the drug satisfies endorphins in the same way a lover does for someone who's not dependent on opiates. Heroin is a very solitary drug in that you'd rather just chill within yourself than be social. It's a warm comfort blanket the same way a lover is.
To her, the fact that she doesn't have a lover means nothing to her, because the opiate is her substitute, it fulfills her and makes her feel good and so she doesn't need a lover.