Sweet Angeline

Album: Brain Capers (1971)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is an Ian Hunter composition and was originally called "Indian City Queen." >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

Comments: 2

  • Bobby B from OhioI've often wondered about this song. I really think it's about a man struggling with his sexuality and sexual identity. I think Angeline is his feminine side. Though he's a man, he is gradually being consumed by his feminine side (Angeline):

    "Imagination's hidden book, you wrote it on the wing
    And when I vowed to comfort you, well you swallowed everything"

    This verse would then be the point where he begins dressing as, and becoming a woman:

    "And your crystal-coloured cardboard bins - attack me from the paint
    And I think that I am getting lost among the swollen states

    And ending with his willingness to accept being a woman:

    "Oh rescue me or bury me, for I care not what you do
    There is just one thing that I want to say am I really you?"

    This is just my theory...I don't claim to have any inside info.
  • Paul from Rothesay, Nb, CanadaIan does a great version of this track from his live album "Welcome to the Club".
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