The Go-Betweens

When She Sang About Angels

The Go-Betweens


When she sang about angels
She looked at the sky 
Anybody else, anybody else, but I let it go by

When she sang about the fields 
She raised up her arm 
As if she was pushing back the cotton on some Midwestern farm

When she sang about a boy
Kurt Cobain 
I thought what a shame it wasn't about 
Tom Verlaine

When she sang about angels
She looked at the sky
Anybody else, anybody else, but I let it go by

Then she threw some names 
Like she always did 
She threw some names, she dropped some names 
like she used to when I was a kid

When she sang about angels
She looked at the sky
Anybody else, anybody else, but I let it go by

I let it go by
I let it go by