„Concrete Angel” is a song performed by Martina McBride and co-produced by McBride and Paul Worley. Composed by Rob Crosby and Stephanie Bentley, the song was released in 2002, as the last single from McBride’s 2001 Greatest Hits album.
„Concrete Angel” is a power ballad, centering around a main theme of child abuse. The narrator tells a story about a 7 year old little girl (named Angela Carter in the music video) who’s trying to deal with abuse from her alcoholic mother. Some people, including the girl’s teacher, seem to notice signs of abuse, but just try to ignore it.
In the video, Angela Carter (Noel Wiggins), is a young girl with an abusive mother. She goes to school, where the teacher and other students ignore the bruises that she has on her body, either because they think she just had a minor accident or it’s to avoid having problems with the family. One day a boy who is an angel(played by Luke Benward) befriends her. One night Angela is talking to the boy, who is in a house that no one lives in because the lights were out,and her mother catches her and beats her to death. After the beating, an ambulance and police officers are shown at her house. At the end of the video, it shows the little girl’s grave, surrounded by a group of people, including her teacher, and the little boy who is also an angel and was also beaten to death. The boy phases through the adults, hugs the angel of the girl and they run to meet another group of (presumably spectral) children. At the end, they run off into the horizon. When the video was originally released, it featured the phone number for the child abuse hotline and encouraged viewers to report abuse.
Concrete Angel lyrics
Songwriters: Bentley, Stephanie; Crosby, Rob;
She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she’s holding back
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with the linen and lace, oh
The teacher wonders but she doesn’t ask
It’s hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born
Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can’t rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place
Where she’s loved concrete angel
Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear but they turn out the light
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A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it will be too late
Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can’t rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place
Where she’s loved concrete angel
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can’t rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place
Where she’s loved concrete angel
Radu Zlati 
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