If every angel's terrible
Then why do you welcome them
If every angel's terrible
Then why do you welcome them
If every angel's terrible
Then why do you welcome them
You say, you'll provide the birdbath
If I provide the skin
And bathing in the moonlight
I'm to tremble like a kitten

If blue eyed babes
Raised as Hitler's little brides and sons
They got angelic tendencies
Like some boys tend to act like queens
If every angel's terrible
Then why do you watch her sleep
You love to hear her sing
And wear purple eyes like rings
Well the flowers have no scent
And the child's been miscarried

If every angel's terrible
Then why do you welcome them
If every angel's terrible
Then why do you welcome them
If every angel's terrible
Then why do you welcome them
You say, you'll provide the birdbath
If I provide the skin
And bathing in the moonling
I'm to tremble like a kitten

Oh every angel's terrible
Said freud and rilke all the same
Rimbaud never paid them no mind
But jimmi morrison had his elevators
His elevators
He had his elevator angels

And if every angel's terrible
Why do you hide inside her
Like a child in a skirt
The supermarket's loud and bright
And boy don't she feel warm tonight
Boy don't she feel warm tonight
Boy don't she feel warm tonight?

(She sounded like an angel when she cried)

If every angel's terrible
Then why do you welcome them
If every angel's terrible
Then why do you welcome them
If every angel's terrible why do you welcome them
You say, You'll provide the birdbath
If I provide the skin
She sounded like an angel when she cried.


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    I also agree with sheafrances, but have a few more interpretations to add.

    The repeated lines: "If every angel's terrible Then why do you welcome them" are the foundation of the song. It is a question to any man who stereotypes women with negative traits; if women are so bad, why do you need them?

    The next lines refer to what a man expects of a woman, especially sexually. The phrase: "You say you'll provide the birdbath/ If I provide the skin" is like a fucked up, poetic pick-up line. She is just a pretty body (skin bathing in the moonlight), submissive and without confidence (trembling like a kitten).

    I think the Jim Morrison line is actually a reference to the Doors movie where Val Kilmer as Jim is getting head in an elevator from a groupie/model. It might mean something more, but I think it's in there just because it sounds like it fits.

    The last verse is my favorite. It's a very poetic metaphor of how a man finds comfort at the end of the day in a women. Like a child he is frightened and disoriented by the world (supermarket) and takes solace in a women (mother) who makes him feel safe ("Boy don't she feel warm tonight").

    Anyway, great, honest song.

    human004on August 24, 2007   Link

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