In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Sometimes, the most beautiful things
The most innocent things
And many of those dreams, pass us by
Keep passing me by
You feel good
I said it's funny that you understood
I knew you would
When you were good
You were very, very good
So I close my eyes softly
Till I become that part of the wind
That we all long for sometime, yeah
And to those that I love, like a ghost through a fog
Like a charmed hour and a haunted song
And the angel of my dreams
Angel of my dreams
You said, you feel good
I said it's funny that you understood
I knew you would
When you were good, baby
Ooh you were very good
I still look up
When you walk in the room
I've the same wide eyes
Now they tell the story
I try not to reach out (ooh)
When you turn 'round you say hello
And we both pretend
No great pretender
So I close my eyes softly
Till I become that part of the wind
That we all long for sometime, yeah
And to those that I love, like a ghost through a fog
Like a charmed hour and a haunted song
And the angel, angel of my dreams
Angel of my dreams
I still look up, yeah (ooh)
I try hard not to look up, yeah (ooh)
That girl was me, yeah-yeah-yeah yeah (ooh)
Track a ghost through the fog, yeah (ooh)
A charmed hour and a haunted song, yeah (ooh)
Go track a ghost through the fog baby, yeah (ooh)
Go track a ghost through the fog baby (ooh)
Ooh, you try hard
But you'll never catch me, yeah
Ooh, that girl was me
The most innocent things
And many of those dreams, pass us by
Keep passing me by
You feel good
I said it's funny that you understood
I knew you would
When you were good
You were very, very good
So I close my eyes softly
Till I become that part of the wind
That we all long for sometime, yeah
And to those that I love, like a ghost through a fog
Like a charmed hour and a haunted song
And the angel of my dreams
Angel of my dreams
You said, you feel good
I said it's funny that you understood
I knew you would
When you were good, baby
Ooh you were very good
I still look up
When you walk in the room
I've the same wide eyes
Now they tell the story
I try not to reach out (ooh)
When you turn 'round you say hello
And we both pretend
No great pretender
So I close my eyes softly
Till I become that part of the wind
That we all long for sometime, yeah
And to those that I love, like a ghost through a fog
Like a charmed hour and a haunted song
And the angel, angel of my dreams
Angel of my dreams
I still look up, yeah (ooh)
I try hard not to look up, yeah (ooh)
That girl was me, yeah-yeah-yeah yeah (ooh)
Track a ghost through the fog, yeah (ooh)
A charmed hour and a haunted song, yeah (ooh)
Go track a ghost through the fog baby, yeah (ooh)
Go track a ghost through the fog baby (ooh)
Ooh, you try hard
But you'll never catch me, yeah
Ooh, that girl was me
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by noelsguitar
Angel Lyrics as written by Stephanie Nicks
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This is a great song..can be found on Fleetwood Mac's TUSK 1979 double album, for those of you who don't know.
This is a very good song..I love Stevie's writing. "Like a ghost through a fog..like a charmed hour and a haunted song."
I agree, it is a really good song. I love the chorus's harmonies and the ending is great.
"I STILL LOOK UP...WHEN YOU WALK IN THE ROOM...I'VE THE SAME WIDE EYES" SHE'S EITHER TALKING ABOUT LINDSEY OR MICK. SHE'S A BRILLIANT WRITER.
@READBETWEENMYLINES its both! The song was written around 1977.
@READBETWEENMYLINES OMG, I can't believe that some of you are so wrong informed about the meaning of her songs. Especially when everything can be found on Internet. Firstly it is not about Lindsley, it's about Mick. But those lines are not about their romance but about Mick's style that Nicks always liked because it was so unique. And the fact that it was written around 1977 doesn't change it all (you think that she didn't have the other ideas to write about but only Lindsley?). And the rest of the song is about the band, the chorus "You feel good (...)" refers to how they all enjoyed performing and that they knew how good they were. "So I close my eyes softly (...)" refers to the real mythology of Rhiannon, and the line "and to those that I love like a ghost through the fog" is about her father, brother and grandfather, because they was called Aron, and Aron also apears in the history of Rhiannon.
I still look up When you walk in the room I've the same wide eyes They tell the story Try not to reach out When you turn 'round And you say hello And we both pretend No great pretender
The first use of Nick's "ghost through a fog" line, which is used in the song "Sweet Girl" on "The Dance" and also in "Ghosts are Gone" in Nicks's own "In Your Dreams." Moreover, the song parallel's the Welsh myth of the goddess Rhiannon, who was courted by a king as she was out riding her horses, who teased him by running away from him. Yet, in the end, they did marry and had a child. The child was either kidnapped or killed as part of a plot to frame Rhiannon and she was given some bizarre punishment. But eventually, the true culprit is revealed and Rhiannon is exonerated, and takes her rightful place on the throne. I think that Nicks was using this story as a kind of parallel to her own life and her trying to overcome her own struggles.
The first use of Nick's "ghost through a fog" line, which is used in the song "Sweet Girl" on "The Dance" and also in "Ghosts are Gone" in Nicks's own "In Your Dreams." Moreover, the song parallel's the Welsh myth of the goddess Rhiannon, who was courted by a king as she was out riding her horses, who teased him by running away from him. Yet, in the end, they did marry and had a child. The child was either kidnapped or killed as part of a plot to frame Rhiannon and she was given some bizarre punishment. But eventually, the true culprit is revealed and Rhiannon is exonerated, and takes her rightful place on the throne. I think that Nicks was using this story as a kind of parallel to her own life and her trying to overcome her own struggles.
Here are all Stevie's comments about "Angel":
Stevie: “A song about Mick. Not so much my love affair with him. I was always taken with his style, and in those days he would walk in the room and I would just look up. ‘I still look up when you walk in the room… I try not to reach out.’ It’s all about him and his crazy fob watch and his really beautiful clothes. He’s a very stylish individual and I was just this little California girl who’d never really known anybody like him.”
stevienicks.info/music/fleetwood-mac-tusk-1979/angel/
And on another site I have found the rest of her comments in which she's explaining that this song is in general a kind of continuation of "Rhiannon" but in this case it's based on real mythology of that Goddess. She's also suggesting that some lines are about Fleetwood Mac and how they all enjoy performing: [On Angel] I wanted to write a rock 'n' roll song. And so it started out being much sillier than it came out . It didn't end up being silly at all. It ended up being very serious actually. But when I started it I was just ~ I thought this is good for me since I write so many like intense, serious, dark songs that I wanted to write something that was up but...and it starts out that way and it is up but there is a definite eerieness that goes through that song that I didn't even know was there, until just the other night ~ when you were filming that. ~ Stevie Nicks, Tusk Documentary, 1980
[On the line 'So I close my eyes softly/Till I become that part of the wind'] That's from uh, the story of Rhiannon... there's a man, in the story of Rhiannon and his name is Arawn... who is the great lord of darkness ~ who is the man who possesses the power to take or give life, but he only takes life... because of pain. And so I wrote something at some point... because Aaron is my father's name, and Aaron is also my brother's name. And Aaron is also my grandfather's name. So Arawn is many things to me.
And it says, 'So I close my eyes softly/Till I become that part of the wind that we all long for sometime.' And so Arawn touched the twins with his hand so that they would sleep. And in that sleep there will be no pain. And in that nonexistence of pain there will be happiness. Because it was only given with great love. And this was in a haunted song, and a charmed hour, and this was the angel... of my dreams. ~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1979
[On what the definition of a "charmed hour" is] The best hour. The best of all your life....It always will remain in your memory and always ring through your dreams, and be there when any people hurt you or bring you down, or you suffer, maybe. That haunted song will be there for you, because that's the Birds of Rhiannon. And that's what that was written about, is the Three Birds of Rhiannon, which always are there if you need them. And you may black out ~ and that's what they do ~ they just take the pain from you, and you wake up and it's all right. And that's the haunted song of Rhiannon... you have to know the story. ~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1979
Angel is a song that I love doing on stage because it makes me feel like an old-time dancehall girl. I love it. I love it. ~Stevie Nicks, Tusk Documentary, 1980
[On whether Angel is an example of her love for Fleetwood Mac] Oh yeah. 'I still look up.' That goes out on stage now. The uh 'I knew you would.' It's like, we all knew we would. Nobody questions that. ~Stevie Nicks, Jim Ladd Innerview, 1979
inherownwords.com/angel.htm
And the other sources say that this song refers also to Nicks's family - her father, brother and grandfather because their names were Aaron (those were their second names or something like that) and Aaron also apears in the mythology of Rhiannon. But that's what she's also saying in those comments above. Another Nicks's song that includes many different threads.