Lyrics to Angel

Back at the Hotel Ritz, passed shanty towns and oil mining
Passed poverty's blitz where the stolen electricity's shining
Passed children shovelling asphalt, juggling fire in the wind
Military men who hide the colour of their skin
Angel walks the street calling out, but no one can hear him

Everywhere I look there's an angel
Calling out from a whispering dome
Behind every church arch Angel circles in a midnight march
Trying to find his way home

Angel, Angel

Angel follows me for hours, says no one will talk to his black face
Says he needs change to get on home to his wife, says he needs a resting place
Every night when he sleeps they take the clothes from his body, the
cops, the robbers, and the kids
And every night Angel follows me back to the Hotel Ritz

Everywhere I look there's an angel
Calling out from a whispering dome
Behind every church arch Angel circles in a midnight march
Trying to find his way home

Angel, Angel

Angel says when you touch death you are scalded by its heat
He says, But I kissed death full on on the face, she was colder than concrete
I cut the man who took my daughter, I was exiled to my homeland
I was just trying to be a father, but I got empty hands, empty hands

So we drove out to where the coyotes are, where there's no one left to blame
And as the wheels rolled off that car
We stood like messiahs
In the middle of the highway

Back at the Hotel Ritz, passed the shanty towns and oil mining
Passed poverty's blitz where the stolen electricity's shining
Passed children shovelling asphalt, juggling fire in the wind
Military men who hide the colour of their skin
Angel walks the street calling out, but no one, no one can hear him

Everywhere I look there's an angel
Calling out from a whispering dome
Behind every church arch Angel circles in a midnight march
Trying to find his way home

Angel, Angel

Back at the Hotel Ritz, there's an Angel in my dreams
Always offering a kiss to prove the divine in him

© 2006 by Erika Kulnys