Thursday, November 15

Thunder Is Your Nightlight, Magic Is Your Dream

The lyrics to Undercover Angel are so insipid it's really hard to imagine someone sitting down to write them, much less looking them over afterwards and being like "Done!"

Crying on my pillow, lonely in my bed,
Then I heard a voice beside me and she softly said,
"Thunder is your night light, magic is your dream."
And then as I held her, she said, "See what I mean?"

I said, "What?"
She said, "Ooh-ooh-ooh, whee."
I said, "All right!"
She said, "Love me, love me, love me!"

[Chorus]
Undercover angel, midnight fantasy,
I never had a dream that made sweet love to me.
Undercover angel, answer to my prayer,
You made me know that there's a love for me out there.

Somewhere. Yeah, somewhere.

Heavenly surrender, sweet afterglow
I'm giving up my heart to you, now angel don't go.
She said, "Go find the right one, love her and then,
When you look into her eyes you'll see me again."

I said, "What?"
She said, "Ooh-ooh-ooh, whee."
I said, "All right!"
She said, "Love me, love me, love me!"

[Chorus]

Somewhere. Whoa, somewhere.

Now you know my story, and girl, if it's right,
I'm gonna take you in my arms and love you tonight.
Underneath the covers, being so nice,
I'm looking for my angel in your sweet-loving eyes.

[Repeat chorus 300 times]


Thank god Wikipedia is here to explain the "storyline" to us!

The song begins with a man commiserating his loneliness, when a woman suddenly appears in his bed, and encourages him to make love to her. The rest of the song describes his feelings about her, then he discovers she must leave him, and he is saddened. She tells him to "go find the right one, love her and then, when you look into her eyes you'll see me again. He then explains that was his story, as apparently he has been singing this song to a woman whom he is trying to seduce, and how he wants to look in her eyes to see if she is the reincarnation of the angel he found.