She Talks to Angels

This song is dark and brooding, from the album "Shake Your Money Maker" (1990) there is an element of strange vodoo, of elusive magic. This song is about a young girl who has lost her child and has turned to drug addiction, it doesn't comment on this as such but simply states her frame of mind. The song made it to 30 on the US Hot 100. The song hit number one as a single in 1991 in the US Mainstream Rock charts and number 70 on the UK Singles Chart.

[Verse 1] She never mentions the word "addiction" In certain company And, yes, she'll tell you she's an orphan After you meet her family, yeah, alright Oh-oh, oh-oh [Verse 2] Well, she paints her eyes as black as the night And she pulls, she pulls those shades back down tight Woah, there's a smile when the pain come And it comes The pain gonna make it alright That's right [Chorus] Says she talks to the angels She said that they call her out by her name Oh, yeah, oh, yeah Said that they call her out by her name [Verse 3] Well, she keeps a lock of hair in her pocket She wears a cross around her neck No, the hair is from a little boy, little boy The cross from someone she has not met Not yet No, no, no, no [Chorus] She talks to the angels Said that they call her out by her name Yeah, she talks to the angels They call her out by her name [Bridge] She don't know no lover None that I ever seen, Lord only knows Oh, that don't mean nothin' To me, it means It means everything [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2] Well, she paints her eyes as black as the night And she pulls, she pulls her shades back down tight And, oh, baby, baby, there's a smile when the pain come And you know it come The pain gonna make it Gonna make it all, make it all, all right [Chorus] Talks to, baby Said that they call her out by her name Oh, my, my, my, my, my, angels Swear they call her out by her name By her name, no, no, no, no, no, no, no [Outro] Angels Said that they call her out Oh, by her, by her, by her, by her Oh, angels, they call her out Oh, my, they call her out You know that they call her out By her name