"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, featured on McBride's 2001 Greatest Hits album. The song went on to reach #5 on the country music charts.

The main theme of the song is child abuse. The song tells a story about a 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. Ultimately, the little girl is killed when her mother beats her to death in a drunken rage.

Spanish singer Marta Sánchez covered the song as "Cómo Un Ángel" in her album Soy Yo, released in 2002. Canadian Idol winner Melissa O'Neil covered the song on the album High Notes.

Music video

In the video, Angela Carter 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. One day a boy (played by Luke Benward) befriends her. One night Angela is talking to the boy out her window and her mother catches her and yells at her. After this fight, an ambulance and police officers are shown at her house, presumably she was killed by her mother when a beating got out of hand. At the end of the video, it shows her grave, a few people and the little boy that befriended her. It turns out that all along, the boy was already an "angel" befriending her just before her own death and was at her funeral to greet her. He then hugs her and they run to meet another group of children, seeming to imply they all died of child abuse, just like the girl. Noting from the lyrics "And she flies to a place where she's loved".

When the video was originally released, it featured the phone number for the child abuse hotline and encouraged viewers to call if they suspected abuse from anywhere. Most copies now show a logo of a child abuse hotline to call.