Street Angel... who is it about?

[michelej1]

Here's what Stevie says:

"It's a story about a girl who is homeless and a man that has a lot of money that falls in love with her. And the fact is, that no matter how much she cares about him, she really can't give up her life on the street and her friends and her family and all her people she hangs with. She really can't change that. And finally at the end, in order to send him back to his life, she basically makes him think that she has committed suicide -- that she's dead, because she knows he won't leave her any other way and she knows she can't really be with him."

Another interview where she says it was written in a hotel.

"I had to leave my house that I lived in because it was attacked by bees. It was a five story house, kind of like a New York house that went straight up. And I lived there. Liza lived there and four or five other peope lived there and we had to go because the bees were so intense that they had to be moved, not killed, but moved. And I went to the hotel and there were 2 movies on tv about homelessness and a lot about it on CNN and I was really very, very, very, touched at how said the situation was and I didn't have any solutions.

"This is not a political song. I was kind of looking out at Hollywood, all the sparkling lights, and people walking down the streets, and how it wild it would be if I was out there and I didn't have a place to go or sleep. This would be the most frightening thing for me. I mean, just as long as you had enough money to pay your rent, you can almost accept anything, but as soon as someone threatens to take your home away, that would scare me. So, I just wrote about a girl who was brought up on the streets and this very much kind of gypsy. She didn't hae much, just her friends and family. She was a Street Angel. There then was this guy, this really, really rich guy fell in love with her and tried to convince her to go with him and not be poor anymore, to marry him and leave her world. And in the end she really couldn't do that. She really couldn't change and be a rich man's lady, and so she, in order to make him let her go and go on with his life, she let it be known to him that she killed herself. She committed suicide. She fell down the steps. He didn't hear her voice anymore. She went awasy. She couldn't live that kind of life."

Stevie says a Street Angel is not a regular angel [yeah, I guess not, because a street angel is HUMAN]:

"Your heavenly origined angel is more like a princess. A street angel is not just a high-powered witch princess. She can also go out and blend in with people. I've always felt that that's the way I am. I can jump into the audience and go home with them. Then, if I'm bored, I'm outta here!"