Lyrics to
Broken Down Angel

This version of Broken Down Angel was released by Nazareth in 1973.

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She used to be someone you could depend on
To brighten up your coldest winter day
But the one she leaned upon
Let her down, now has moved on
And morning brings another empty day
Now she’s only a broken down angel
She’s only a bird that’s broke her wing
She’s only someone, someone who’s gone wrong
She’s only a child that’s lost her way

She used to be a girl of simple pleasures
A breath of spring to chase your blues away
But now she bears a cross, for a love that she has lost
No sunshine in her life just clouds of gray
Now she’s only a broken down angel
She’s only a bird that’s broke her wing
She’s only someone, someone who’s gone wrong
She’s only a child that’s lost her way
She’s only a broken down angel
She’s only a bird that’s broke her wing
She’s only someone, someone who’s gone wrong
She’s only a child that’s lost her way
Now she’s only a broken down angel
She’s only a bird that’s broke her wing
She’s only someone, someone who’s gone wrong
She’s only a child that’s lost her way

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Broken Down Angel, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by Nazareth. Some of the lyrics to Broken Down Angel have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Nazareth and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Broken Down Angel if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Broken Down Angel" means the words set to the music of Broken Down Angel, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Nazareth. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Broken Down Angel and the lyrics to Broken Down Angel are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Nazareth who came here looking just for the lyrics to Broken Down Angel, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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