"I've come to make you better, I've come to take you away"

[strandinthewind]

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

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

That part always makes me think of how many families of AIDS patients I have heard of, who only reconciled with the patient on their death bed.

It's a sad thing that so many people can't get over their own issues until it's too late.


"Someday... someday...."

I agree. But - I think she was not mad about them having AIDS - I tend to think they got into a fight about something else years before and then she heard the person was dying and knew she had to see them one more time. That is what I think anyways

BTW - thanks for posting the lyrics

[ontheEdgeof17]

Good interp. J! I can honestly say, I totally see it.


Could you see the video? GAWD...it would have been gorgeous.

[Hawkeye]

Originally Posted by dissention

What a combo.

Only Stevie can write a song about her band getting back together and just sprinkle in some lines about AIDS victums in there just to mix things up.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I agree. But - I think she was not mad about them having AIDS - I tend to think they got into a fight about something else years before and then she heard the person was dying and knew she had to see them one more time.

No, no, I don't think Stevie (as one of the figures in the song) is mad at the person for having AIDS, it's just that that part reminds me of all of the families I have heard of who only reconcile once the patient is in their final hours.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

No, no, I don't think Stevie (as one of the figures in the song) is mad at the person for having AIDS, it's just that that part reminds me of all of the families I have heard of who only reconcile once the patient is in their final hours.

Ah Ha -

I, too, have seen that and hate that. I mean it is aweful that it takes something like that - and in some cases that horribleness (death bed etc.) cannot even heal some people's prejudices. I mean even Christ forgave the people who killed him - I think it is a little easier for mortals to get over their what I see as pettiness

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Ah Ha -

I, too, have seen that and hate that. I mean it is aweful that it takes something like that - and in some cases that horribleness (death bed etc.) cannot even heal some people's prejudices. I mean even Christ forgave the people who killed him - I think it is a little easier for mortals to get over their what I see as pettiness

That is rather sad. I dream about this topic often.


When I came out to my mom, the first thing she said to me was "You are going to get AIDS." That still haunts me.......It's painful that I am automatically thought of as someone who will carry the disease since I am gay. I wish it wasn't such a taboo disease. Let's get over it. Fight it. Cure it.

[Moony]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

That is rather sad. I dream about this topic often.


When I came out to my mom, the first thing she said to me was "You are going to get AIDS." That still haunts me.......It's painful that I am automatically thought of as someone who will carry the disease since I am gay. I wish it wasn't such a taboo disease. Let's get over it. Fight it. Cure it.

That is very sad, Curtis.. *hugs* Almost makes me want to cry.

Unfortunately, I have never heard this song...would anyone be good enough to send me an mp3? I don't have any money at the moment to go buy the soundtrack...PM me if you can.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

That is rather sad. I dream about this topic often.


When I came out to my mom, the first thing she said to me was "You are going to get AIDS." That still haunts me.......It's painful that I am automatically thought of as someone who will carry the disease since I am gay. I wish it wasn't such a taboo disease. Let's get over it. Fight it. Cure it.

I know you know you are FAR better than any stereotype - but it never hurts to hear it again - so here for all to hear I say - Curtis is an exceptional young man who has devoted his life to help the sick. He is of charming wit and often bawdy, esp. after a LARGE screwdriver - a trait I admire LOL. That he is gay is irrelevant and if relevant FAR eclipsed by the relevance of his good nature and deeds.

Plus, he and Stew are together - really I swear

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

When I came out to my mom, the first thing she said to me was "You are going to get AIDS." That still haunts me.......It's painful that I am automatically thought of as someone who will carry the disease since I am gay. I wish it wasn't such a taboo disease. Let's get over it. Fight it. Cure it.

Ah, yes, I got the "you could get AIDS and die" thing from my mother, too. And when I dated my first boyfriend, she repeatedly told me that I'd "better not be doing anything that could kill (me)."

I think part of it is being afraid for their child's well-being, and I think part of it is just plain not being informed enough about HIV/AIDS or even homosexuality in general.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Plus, he and Stew are together - really I swear

To quote Melanie Hutsell as Tammy Wynette on 'Saturday Night Live'... "this is how rumours get started, bitch!"

[ontheEdgeof17]

Thanks for the kind words. It was years ago and my mother is more understanding now and she's a cool cat!

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Plus, he and Stew are together - really I swear

I just think someone is jealous.

[strandinthewind]

Plus, the disease is rising fastest amongst African American women and had been for years. AIDS does not care who it infects, it just does Gay people were just the first it hit hard.

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Plus, the disease is rising fastest amongst African American women and had been for years. AIDS does not care who it infects, it just does Gay people were just the first it hit hard.

Do you know the REAL story of how it spread?

Well....


They used to have boating games and such off the Boston Harbor/in that area (I dunno if they still do). It used to be a big sport, I guess. Anyway, guys from Europe (I don't remember which country it actually was...I think France) had sex with the boaters from the US. They were carrying the virus. And since it was between man and man in the beginning here in the states, it has become the 'gay disease'. That's how it started here.

[Moony]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Do you know the REAL story of how it spread?

Well....


They used to have boating games and such off the Boston Harbor/in that area (I dunno if they still do). It used to be a big sport, I guess. Anyway, guys from Europe (I don't remember which country it actually was...I think France) had sex with the boaters from the US. They were carrying the virus. And since it was between man and man in the beginning here in the states, it has become the 'gay disease'. That's how it started here.

I knew it - France is to blame!

Sorry Had to throw a little humor in there...this kind of stuff always makes me depressed..