Terrible Angels Lyrics

Lyric discussion by sheafrances 

Cover art for Terrible Angels lyrics by CocoRosie

maybe about women rights and sexist view points

And wear purple eyes like rings =(women who were beaten?)

But jimmi morrison had his elevators His elevators He had his elevator angels = elevator theory in workplaces where women can see the top position, but can never reach it (most work places of all women the highest position held by a man, ie teachers and principals)

Rimbaud paid them no mind = jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud was a french poet, who had love affair with a man, therefore, paying women no mind.

The supermarket's loud and bright And boy don't she feel warm tonight = sacrastic outlook of sterotypical women roles.

Connecting these possible explainations is more difficult. Maybe it is trying to say, if you think women are not as good as you, then why do you accept them and live with them and love them? I am not completely sure, but it does have some underlining parallels of women ideals.