Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground Lyrics
Then I would not have found you
Angel flying too close to the ground
And I patched up your broken wing
And hung around a while
Tried to keep your spirits up
And your fever down
I knew someday that you would fly away
For love's the greatest healer to be found
So leave me if you need to
I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground
Fly on, fly on past the speed of sound
I'd rather see you up
Than see you down
Leave me if you need to
I will still remember
Angel flying too close to the ground
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Yeah I don't think this has anything to do with his son. Just flat out love :)
Here is what Poodie told me. There are a few people Will considers his very best friends that all but one go back to way before the fame and fortune. Those people include his drummer and oldest friend Paul English, Freddy Fletcher who is his sister Bobby's son, Carl Carneilus, Coach Derrell Royal, Waylon Jennings, and Randal "Poodie" Locke who died recently to name a few. Paul English wife Paula Carline was really close to Will and his wife at the time. In fact their daughter Paula was named after her. For reasons known only to God Carline died suddenly and tragically. Willie wrote the song Angle Flying Too Close To the Ground in honor and for Carline. If you listen closely to the words this the meaning to each one is now crystal clear. That is why I can't play it without a tear or two falling. Spice
@Spicewood No Angle flying to close was written for Connie Nelson. I still can't believe your gone was written for Carlene English
@Spicewood No Angle flying to close was written for Connie Nelson. I still can't believe your gone was written for Carlene English
This song was written way before his son, Billy committed suicide. It was actually written about his divorce with Billy's mom, Willie's first wife, Martha.
I believe this song was initially released on the Honeysuckle Rose soundtrack in 1980, his son committed suicide in 1991.
It makes more sense that Willie wrote this about a woman that he loved that eventually left him.....especially if you look at when it was written and when his son committed suicide. I think it is about an ex-wife. Great song either way.
it's obviously written about weed, just like every other song.
There are many meanings / interpretations, but I like that one that I heard while in AA. ... It's a song describing one's love for another whom had an addiction (alcohol / drugs) that would likely lead to a untimely death.
He wrote Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground during his son's lifelong depression and addiction.
He likely said it was someone else because his son was alive & didn't need that publicity. After, he could say during concerts that it was for him.
This song was written for Connie Nelson.