Angie

“Angie” is the only gentle, ballad-like track on Shame’s otherwise vigorous debut album "Songs of Praise", making it an appropriate album closer. Frontman Charlie Steen delivers the lyrics in a spoken word fashion as if narrating a grim love story.

The song left album producer Dan Foat in tears to the point that he and co-producer Nathan Boddy insisted it be included on the album.

According to an interview with Noisey:

"On it, Steen wanted to make something like ‘Where the Wild Grow’ by Nick Cave, or ‘In Every Dream Home a Heartache’ by Roxy Music, and largely succeeds."

Vocalist Charlie Steen and guitarist Eddie Green wrote to NPR:

"The bones of this song were written at The Queen’s Head, after just hearing the distressing story that is revealed in the lyrical content. It was a song we never thought would make it onto the album until Dan and Nathan, the producers, heard it and insisted that it be included. This song is perhaps the most sentimental to us, as a large chunk of it was written at Rockfields during the recording of the album and, due to its extremely climactic tone, could only be the closer for the album.

It is a dark, twisted love story. Whether it is true or not we shall never know, but the story tells of a teenager who falls in love with a girl who is later to commit suicide. It delves deep into the love this man still holds for her, even after death."