Showing posts with label Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground. Show all posts

Monday, January 12, 2015

Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

Touched by angel:
She makes a guy fall in love,
Then she flies away.

Willie Nelson wrote this. Dylan performed it during the sessions for the 1983 album "Infidels," then released it as the B-side to "Jokerman" and, I think, one or two other songs from that album, but only in international editions. I have a 45-rpm single of this that comes from Brazil. This one is a precursor of sorts to "In Spite of Me," by Morphine, at least the way I hear it. Angel falls to the ground, guy heals her, she flies away again, being an angel, he provides the gentlest of guilt trips:

I knew someday that you would fly away For love's the greatest healer to be found So leave me if you need to, I will still remember Angel flying too close to the ground





Thursday, December 30, 2010

Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

Getting ditched is bad.
Writing a song about it
Can make things better.

Saturday, April 3, 2010