Me And My Charms

"kiss the angel" may mean kissing your lover's / child's (etc.) closed eyelids, which may also make sense here? The eyelids - if fluttering - are the angel wings, the source of the expression.

I absolutely love this song. I have listened to it countless times over and over. I was chilling at my loft one day watching the Bravo channel when the movie "Foxfire" was broadcasted.

This is a very cool independent flick that I immediately added to my DVD archive. The end of the movie pans away from the main actress actually walking high above a bridge in Portland, Oregon with this song playing as the scene fades to ending credits.

A gr8 song.

I'm glad you like it, but do you have any idea as to what she's trying to say? Because I don't. If I take it one verse at a time, I suppose it makes sense, but I don't see how "me and my charms..." and the rest of the corus even fits in. What does it mean? Does anyone know?

I think it's about a woman whose man is leaving her, despite all she's offering him, all her charms are useless in convincing him not to leave.

I've always thought the song was an allusion to female masturbation.

Lights go out...pick the angel up..only two hands..Kiss the Angel...have a taste of you...

I dunno...I just picture the woman has lost her lover (possibly Sapphic) and the charm is a way for the dumped to remember her time spent with her former lover....

which is why she keeps saying she will still be there if her lover wants to come back...

I have been wrong before though

It might be in her lover's perspective?

Best song

I think it's possible an angel charm was on her lover's charm bracelet. The line "I pick the angel up" could suggest a fight/break up, as in.. a fallen angel. She holds onto the angel because that's the only piece of her lover she has left to physically touch. All in all I think the angel represents a relationship. And the fact that she's still holding onto the angel corresponds with the line "i haven't left you yet"

I'm not sure what "i only have two hands" means. I guess it could mean that she can't pick up all the pieces that her lover and their relationship once was, pointing out that she's only human.

Idk, these are my speculations and ramblings.. feedback?

also, Firefox... awesome movie!

I thought it was about her husband leaving her for another woman. She loves him and doesn't want him to leave her. All of the things that he loved about her before, her charms, don't work on him anymore.

Her and her husband have a child together, hence, "When I kiss the angel, I have a taste of you. When I take the angel, I have a piece of you." The angel is their child, a piece of both of them. I am guessing they have joint custody.

When she says "I have a piece of you. I have a piece," I think the last line could also be heard as "I have a peace." Of course, you can't write lyrics that way (using homonyms), but I think it's an interesting interpretation. She has a piece (of him) and she has a peace when she takes her child back from him.

i heard this in the movie foxfire too. my first impression of the song was that the "angel" is her child she had with the person who left. i've wondered what else the angel could be, but nothing else seems to fit. "I haven't left this step And when the lights go out I pick the angel up I only have two hands"

perhaps she is talking about how she would run after the one who left but she has this "angel" to care for.she only has "two hands" meaning she cant do both.

Is she here? Is she here right now? Drive her off; don't bother to call I'm checking out today

this is the only part of the song that confuses me. if the angel is her child then that cannot be the "she" being referred to here. perhaps this is someone her lover left her for. maybe she is saying 'drive off with her, dont call me, im leaving anyway'. checking out of a hotel? hospital? going to commit suicide? just some ideas.