The song was compared to Bobbie Gentry’s " Ode to Billie Joe" (which had a mystery about "something" thrown off the Tallahatchie Bridge). O'Day's lyrics inspired a great deal of speculation about their meaning. The intent was to show that the Angie character had more power than he or the listener expected she shrank him down into her radio, where he remained as her slave whenever she desired him to come out. When a "neighbor boy with evil on his mind" tries to enter her room to take advantage of the girl, he is instead drawn into her reality, with weird and unexpected consequences. This expanded to her living in a dream world of lovers, inspired by the songs on her radio. Originally the character was portrayed as mentally "slow", but while writing the song, O'Day showed it to his therapist, who pointed out that the character's reactions in the song were not those of a mentally disabled person, so O'Day changed the lyric from "slow" to "touched," and the character's image changed from being mentally disabled to being "crazy". He named the character Angie, possibly inspired by the Rolling Stones' 1973 hit song " Angie". As an only child who was often ill, many of his days were spent in bed with a radio to keep him company. O'Day said he also thought of his own childhood. In order to make the character more interesting, O'Day decided to make her abnormal, and he thought of a young next door neighbor girl he had known who had seemed "socially retarded". Originally it was loosely based on the character in the Beatles' " Lady Madonna". In an article he wrote in 2006, Alan O'Day said the song took three months to write. The film does not feature Reddy herself but is a literal interpretation of the song's lyrics. Wilson of Fine Arts Films made an accompanying animated short film for the song when it appeared on The Sonny & Cher Show in the mid-1970s (Wilson made many other animated shorts for various hit records of the era and his work became a prominent regular feature of the show). The closing verse describes the disappearance of the boy and the townsfolk's speculation that he was dead, but nobody asks Angie for an explanation she says that the boy has become her "secret lover."
The song then turns surreal when, as Angie turns the volume of the radio down, the boy begins to shrink and is pulled into the radio.
One day, a neighbor arrives at Angie's house with intent to do her harm, but once he enters Angie's room he is disorientated by the loud music. Imagine you can tell YouTube you have an hour to watch TV, and it would give you programming based around what you have watched in the past, what your friends watched and recommended, what your favourite celebrities tweeted about, and on one piece of input from you about what mood you are in.The song tells the story of Angie, a young girl who "lives life in the songs" she hears on "rock and roll radio", her mental disturbances led to her being removed from school and having no friends, leaving her to spend most of her time listening to the radio, imagining lovers entering her room and then disappearing when her father knocks on the door.
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