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Matty Healy penned this song in dedication to a girl, Angela, who was also a patient in rehab while he was there to recuperate from heroin addiction, which is the subject matter of the previous track on the album “It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You)”.
The title of the song is from David Foster W...
[Verse 1]
Angela
She wears it like a dress
A post-traumatic mess
[Verse 2]
And don't sleep
It hurts to be awake
The things they make her take
Angela, Angela
[Verse 3]
Oh, we don’t speak
She stayed an extra week
Oh, I see her in my sleep
Angela, oh Angela
Surrounded By Heads And Bodies was written by Adam Hann & George Daniel & Matty Healy & Ross MacDonald.
Surrounded By Heads And Bodies was produced by George Daniel & Matty Healy & Adam Hann.
The 1975 released Surrounded By Heads And Bodies on Fri Nov 30 2018.
This seems like a rehab song. Is Angela, the person you’re singing to here, somebody you met there?
Yeah, it was only me and this other person—me in my own compound, and she had her own compound across the way. We rarely saw each other apart from some shared therapy, and she was such a beautiful, l...
I was reading David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” when I was in rehab. There was no one there. It was me and my nurses, who’d come in and check on me (and the other patient who was called Angela). I was surrounded by no one, and the book was just open on the front page (as most copies of Infinite...