Lucie Idlout - Lovely Irene (Angel Street)

This is the song that our group showed in the last presentation about Native American communities in Canada and the participation of Inuit people in the White People world. Lovely Irene is a song written by Lucie Idlout about her friend who was a victim of domestic violence, and this song was used in a campaign against domestic violence: The Angel Street Project. After the campaign, eight cities in Canada were renamed "Angel Street". The lyrics are listed below.

Lovely Irene

Broken down on angel street

He pushed you down

Made you unseen

Irene

High heels on a gravel road

He never loved you

That’s all he knows

Could never please him

So the story goes

Irene

High heels on a gravel road

My Lovely Irene

I love you Irene

You ain’t crazy

How could you have known

He’d kill a lifetime

And break all your bones

Irene

High heels on a gravel road

My lovely Irene

I love you Irene

Why didn’t you walk away

You should have just walked away