For Shawn Colvin's 2019 release of her acoustic version of Steady On, American Songwriter interviewed about "Cry Like an Angel," noting that it (as with most of the songs on Steady On were written after Colvin had gotten sober in 1983. Colvin herself said in the interview, "That was my life’s turning point ... It allowed me to become conscious again, to grow into myself. Gradually I found my lyrical voice and started to write songs about the journey to what I’d call enlightenment. Some songs on the record harken to a past I had suppressed, some celebrate the miracle of having survived. ‘Cry Like An Angel’ does both. I believe that in experiencing our grief we begin to heal.”
For Shawn Colvin's 2019 release of her acoustic version of Steady On, American Songwriter interviewed about "Cry Like an Angel," noting that it (as with most of the songs on Steady On were written after Colvin had gotten sober in 1983. Colvin herself said in the interview, "That was my life’s turning point ... It allowed me to become conscious again, to grow into myself. Gradually I found my lyrical voice and started to write songs about the journey to what I’d call enlightenment. Some songs on the record harken to a past I had suppressed, some celebrate the miracle of having survived. ‘Cry Like An Angel’ does both. I believe that in experiencing our grief we begin to heal.”