Fallen Angel

Album: Reckless Thoughts (2023)
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Songfacts®:

  • Sometimes a song lyric sits around for a while until the right circumstances bring it to life. In the case of "Fallen Angel," a track from Maia Sharp's ninth album, Reckless Thoughts, it was someone else's words that did the trick.

    "'Fallen Angel' is from a line I had in the notes of my phone for months - 'She said, 'Honey don't fall for a fallen angel,' I said, 'Baby, you never had wings,'" Sharp explained in a 2023 Songfacts interview. "I didn't know what to do with it until a woman I was crushing on said sometimes she feels like a fallen angel. That brought me back to the line and now I could build a story around it imagining what it would be like if the crush turned into more. It didn't, but I wrote the song in that magic window before I knew one way or the other."
  • Sharp was pursuing romance again after her marriage ended in 2018. The album track "California" deals with leaving both her home state and her wife behind for a new life in Nashville.

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