Bit of a strange request here.....the meaning of the song 'Angels' by R. Williams

Goose · 11 May 2008 at 17:28

I'm teaching English to foreign students at the moment and in a forthcoming lesson we'll be doing some activities based around the song Angels by Robbie Williams.

I'd like to be able to give the students an article or something to read that explains (or hypothesizes) the meaning(s) of the song.

I've tried wikipedia and done a google search but i've come up empty. If anyone can help i'd greatly appreciate it.

Cheers.

Monkey Puzzle · 11 May 2008 at 17:35

The song is really about aliens.

Goose · 11 May 2008 at 17:45

Monkey Puzzle said:
The song is really about aliens.

Thats helpful, thanks.

Jimbeam3678 · 11 May 2008 at 17:48

ask the guy who wrote it , and it wasn't R williams

Naffa · 11 May 2008 at 17:51

Actually it was. He co-wrote it with Guy Chambers. I've no idea what the song is about or what it means though.

Masterdog · 11 May 2008 at 17:55

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=13034 has some people with nothing better to do arguing about the meaning of the song - you could probably gather enough snippets together to present an article.

Gigi · 11 May 2008 at 17:58

http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/6680.html

Jimbeam3678 · 11 May 2008 at 18:43

naffa said:
Actually it was. He co-wrote it with Guy Chambers. I've no idea what the song is about or what it means though.

Not if you read up in depth. A guy gave it to him, then chambers and R willaims added there own little touches to it. If memroy serves me right.

SO i'm no doubt wrong

NokkonWud · 11 May 2008 at 18:52

He co-wrote it with Chambers. It's about his mother.

SexyGreyFox · 11 May 2008 at 20:45

Williams co-wrote this with Irishman Ray Hefferman, then Guy Chambers transformed it into Williams' biggest worldwide selling single. Hefferman recalled in an interview promoting the 2006 Manchester Irish Festival how he earned a paltry £7,500 from the song: "We (Hefferman and Williams) met in a Dublin pub during the Christmas holidays of 1996, and proceeded to go out and have a few beers etc. He ended up staying in my place, as we had said we would try to write some songs together. I had one that I had written in Paris called 'An Angel Instead,' which he liked, and we worked on it together. He called Louis Walsh, who organised a studio for us, and we recorded a version of it here in Dublin. He went back to England after that, and we lost touch. I was therefore very surprised to hear that 'Angels' was on his new album. I got in touch, and essentially signed a waver of my rights to the song for just £7,500 and the rest is musical history, I'm still writing songs and selling albums independently and he is a corporation."