The Angel and the One

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"The Angel and the One"
Album track by Weezer
from the album Weezer (The Red Album)
ReleasedJune 3, 2008
RecordedSpring 2007
Length6:46
LabelGeffen
Songwriter(s)Rivers Cuomo
Producer(s)Rick Rubin
StatusOfficially released
Live debutJanuary 17, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia
Last playedApril 29, 2024 in Santa Ana, CA
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Weezer (The Red Album) track listing
19 tracks
  1. "Troublemaker"
  2. "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived"
  3. "Pork and Beans"
  4. "Heart Songs"
  5. "Everybody Get Dangerous"
  6. "Dreamin'"
  7. "Thought I Knew"
  8. "Cold Dark World"
  9. "Automatic"
  10. "The Angel and the One"
Deluxe Editon bonus tracks
  2. "Miss Sweeney"
  3. "Pig"
  4. "The Spider"
  5. "King"
International bonus tracks
  2. / 13. / 15. "The Weight"
  3. / 16. "Life's What You Make It" (UK/Japan only)
  4. / 17. "メリクリ" (Japan only)
Digital bonus tracks
  2. / 15. "It's Easy"
  3. / 16. "I Can Love"
Deliverance at Hand! track listing
18 tracks
  1. "Autopilot"
  2. "Heart Songs"
  3. "Here Comes the Girl"
  4. "I Don't Wanna Let You Go"
  5. "King"
  6. "Everybody Get Dangerous"
  7. "Leader of the Pack"
  8. "Miss Sweeney"
  9. "My Bark Is Worse Than My Bite"
  10. "My Day Is Coming"
  11. "Piece of the Pie"
  12. "Pig"
  13. "Respect"
  14. "Run Over by a Truck"
  15. "Why Can't You Shut Your Mouth?"
  16. "The Odd Couple"
  17. "These Things That You Do"
  18. "The Angel and the One"
This song is part of the "The Angel and the One" lineage of songs

"The Angel and the One" is the tenth track off of The Red Album. It is reworked from a Rivers Cuomo song titled "Bad Girl".

Appearances

Overview

"The Angel and the One" was, according to Rivers Cuomo, reworked from a song titled "Bad Girl". Said Cuomo in the album's liner notes:

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Rivers: That song it started out as a really standard pop song called bad girl and had a verse and a chorus and a bridge and all that stuff. And I just wasn't satisfied with it. It wasn't moving me spiritually enough. It was too normal. So one day I sat down with my acoustic guitar and I just played that song over and over on basically looping it. My fingers hurt so much, but I just kept playing it. And over the hour that I was playing it, the song slowly evolved and it smoothed over and the sections blurred into each other. And it turned into this spiritual reverie that is really just one long development with out any distinctions between sections. Every line in this rhymes and the melody just gradually gets higher and higher and the music gets louder and more powerful... There isn't any study of music in that song. It was just the desire to breakaway and not write a standard three minute pop song.


— Weezer (The Red Album) liner notes


The spreadsheet The 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo originally listed "Bad Girl" as a potential inclusion on Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, but the song did not appear on the final album.

Many Weezer fans have noted that "The Angel and the One" is one of their favorite tracks on The Red Album. Drummer Patrick Wilson has stated that is his favorite song from the album as well. The song was performed at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia in January 2013, and then in April 2024 at the Constellation Room in Santa Ana, California.

Known recordings

Performer(s) Title Filename Date of recording Recording location Length Appeared on Notes
Rivers Cuomo You Think You're Bad you think you're bad 2.mp3 2006 4:18 Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years
Rivers Cuomo Bad Girl bad girl.mp3 2006 4:14 Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years
Rivers Cuomo Bad Girl bad girl (with overdubs).mp3 2006 4:19 Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years
Rivers Cuomo Bad Girl Bad Girl (2008 edit).mp3 2008 3:33 Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years
Rivers Cuomo Come to Stay Come to Stay aka Angel and the One.mp3 ? 3:50 Alone X: The Red-Raditude-Hurley Years
Rivers Cuomo The Angel and the One 18 The Angel and the One 2.mp3 2007 5:20
Weezer The Angel and the One 2008 6:46 Weezer (The Red Album)

Personnel

Audio

YouTube (North America)
YouTube (International)

Lyrics

  • Red Lyric sheet

    Red Lyric sheet

  • Lyric sheet from the Deliverance at Hand! booklet.

    Lyric sheet from the Deliverance at Hand! booklet.

  • Lyric sheet from the Deliverance at Hand! booklet.

    Lyric sheet from the Deliverance at Hand! booklet.

It's not my destiny to be the one that you will lay with
So many reasons why I have to go but want to stay here
Sometimes I want to taste but then I don't know what I'm saying
You are the angel and I am the one that is praying

There is another love that I would rather be obeying
I see the ecstasy and already I'm anticipating
I feel a deeper peace and that deeper peace is penetrating
I got the magic in me, I am complete is what I'm saying

I'm flying up so high, my purple majesty displaying
I've reached a higher place that no one else can make a claim in

I'll take you there my friend
I'm reaching out my hand, so take it
We are the angels, and we are the ones that are praying

Peace, shalom, peace, shalom
Peace, peace
Peace, shalom, peace, shalom
Peace, peace

See also

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