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5:15 The Angels Have Gone Lyrics
5:15
I'm changing trains
This little town
Let me down
This foreign rain
Brings me down
5:15
Train overdue
Angels have gone
No ticket
I'm jumping tracks
I'm changing towns
We never talk anymore
Forever I will adore you
5:15
All of my life
Angels have gone
I'm changing trains
Angels like them
Thin on the ground
All of my life
All legs and wings
Strange sandy eyes
5:15
Train overdue
Angels have gone
We never talk anymore
Forever I will adore you
Wrong station
All of my life
Forever I will remember
I'm changing trains
This little town
Let me down
This foreign rain
Brings me down
5:15
Train overdue
Angels have gone
No ticket
I'm jumping tracks
I'm changing towns
Forever I will adore you
All of my life
Angels have gone
I'm changing trains
Angels like them
Thin on the ground
All of my life
All legs and wings
Strange sandy eyes
5:15
Train overdue
Angels have gone
Forever I will adore you
All of my life
Forever I will remember
Song Info
Submitted by
agathakavka On May 31, 2002
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5 years...tvc 1 5... 5:15
@williamd16 BTW: David wrote the song at 55 years old!
@williamd16 BTW: David wrote the song at 55 years old!
It sounds to me he's ended a relationship and left town, trying to make a new life and move on. He's gone from place to place, but nothing is working. Even though they don't speak anymore, deep down he wants to be with her again, and she'll be forever in his heart
@ThisAlien\'sInLoveWithYou
@ThisAlien\'sInLoveWithYou
the last line is: "forever im out here forever"
this song is my life... so alone, but hiding it...
I love travelling songs, songs that talk about packing up and leaving the life you have now. When David Bowie sings songs like these. . .well! My excitement just knows no bounds.
I've never really thought about the lyrics, but I really adore this song, it's one of my favorites on Heathen.
This is one of my favorite songs ever. The way I see it is that all of his life he's been searching, but he's never found a place where he can just stay and be happy, and he's realizing that it's because he left her behind.
I pretty sure 5.15 part is a reference to The Who's song "5:15" I don't remember much of what's the song is about except that a guy takes a train to somewhere. What that song has to do with this one is beyond me.
Beautiful song. My favorite off of Heathen.
And I believe that line, "shrinks in the ice," is actually "strange sandy eyes."
It is definitely 'strange sandy eyes'. It is very clear in this live performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXVMJX1Z70Y
BTW: David wrote the song at 55 years old!!!!!