I love this song so much I will give my interpretation
Touched By An Angel
(written by Stevie Nicks)
And when she walked in the room
After so many years, (
again, time has gone by since they have seen each other )
He looked up and saw her (
from the hospital bed in a weakened state)
He was standing at the crossroads (
dying)
She was moving in slow motion (
like when you see someone dying in the hospital and do not want to believe it )
Everything was the same,
Except that everything was different (
like when you see a friend for the first time in years and you pick right up but you are both different, etc. )
In that very moment, everyone was silent
And everyone was friendly,
For the first time in years,
Everyone was smiling
Though their pain was apparent
and the floor was wet and slippery
With the tracks of their tears (
again, the uncomfortable moment of realizing what has past has past and is irrelevant because this person is dying and it is a shock to see it - thus come the tears )
And then I see someone standing
At the side of the stage
Not standing in the shadows
I see her face
Glowing in the darkness
In her own angel way
"I have come to make you better,
I have come to take you away." (
passageway angel that maybe she sees as taking her audience away when she sings - she wants to take this AIDS patient's pain away and make them better, etc. - she repeatedly says this is what she does or wants to happen when she sings )
No one slipped and fell
This time, everyone was steady
Someone held my arm so that
I would not fall
For the first time, in a long time
Everyone was ready
No one said a word
And that simply said it all (
the person dies and she almost faints or when she leaves the room and they are still alive, she almost faints from the shock of it all )
And then I see someone standing
At the side of the stage
Not standing in the shadows
I see her face
Glowing in the darkness
In her own angel way
"I have come to make you better,
I have come...to take you away."
I’ll make you better
Walking through the room together
In suspended animation...
No one saw us go... no one said goodbye (
She is leaving the patient in the room and in disbelief as if in suspended animation )
But in my heart, I leave
Great expectations
That you will find the answers
to your questions
And that life will once more...
be a celebration...
and that you will be touched by an Angel
and that you will be touched by an Angel
and that you will be touched by an Angel (
Arguably the most beautiful thing you could wish for a dying person to have in that moment - It makes me cry to think about how beautiful that sentiment and wish is - I am such a softy
- Also, this is her trying to, as she says, give hope into the darkness of her songs, etc. )
Celebration
Someday
Someday, Someday
Celebration