Angel City

Tonight when I close my eyes There be a vision of you inside my head And I don't have to think twice About the times you said you love me Can't get you out of my mind There's a part of you in everything I do I think about you all the time I was born to love y...

She walks down the line, no sense of time Eternity She talks of the years, blinded by tears Her majesty Fantasy The mirror just confused her She pleaded guilty to a charge of Perverse delight Trying to control the childhood dream that Haunts her through the n...

Who lies on sheets of ice Who pays for paradise After the rain After the rain Who suffers fools and freaks Who hangs in guilty cliques After the rain After the rain Somebody save me The water's rising Sweet Jesus take the blame Who knows whose star...

Went down to Santa Fe Where Renoir paints the walls Described you clearly But the sky began to fall Am I ever gonna see your face again Am I ever gonna see your face again Tram cars and taxis Like a wax-works on the move Carrying young girls past me...

Young man in Morocco Buys a diamond ring Takes it across the water Just to see what luck it brings Young girl dressed in midnight Sets his blood on fire You can't buy my soul with gold But my heart is up for hire I can't shake it, I can't shake it, I can't sh...

Inside the canyons of glass and towering steel The shadows and the footsteps that never stop to feel The lights have changed from red to green And yes I've changed my mind I pick up the phone and tell someone "Just get off my line" Up on the corner, newsboys d...

Psychopath, young man Dedicated to efficiency 17, 28, 59 Looks like it's comin' down on me Down on me, down on me, down on me Hold tight! big brother Calling in the name of liberty Lots stone take your place Looks like it's comin' down on me Down on me, down...

Red light, black street, dead man, still people I swear that I just heard my number Too late, no chance, last breath, cold panic Call the ambulance, somebody's falling The devil's calling Hear the hurricane, howling out my name Coming now to take me under Oh...

(I Go Crazy) Time stands still in my heart I don't know where you are Longing for what I denied Can we just turn it around tonight? (Chorus x2) And do you know without you I just go crazy? And do you know that all I think about is the way you are? An...

(There comes a time in a young girl's life When she first meets a man There comes a time in a young girl's life When she becomes a woman) Highway number nineteen The moon's shining bright She's been in my dreams If it's ever gonna happen It'll happen...

I don't wanna face the day I don't wanna face the day I don't wanna face the day, the day, today Long night leaves me stranded Black vision, danger sign No love, need protection Feels like I'm on production line Daggers of dawn, cold hearted day Why does it h...

Tonight, nobody came Fame, fashion The dream of yesterday Fame, fashion Fashion and Fame Nobody came tonight, empty seats tonight Somebody said, "They'll all be here tomorrow" You were a high flying whirlwind Talk of the town Lost in the heat of the flame Had...

Rumour has it that you got a well laid plan To make yourself a singularly self-made man Imported shirts from Yves St. Laurent You got everything that you want Catch you running to your candy colored Chevrolet Consumer consumed, the loser has to pay The higher...

Riding on a lucky wheel of seventeen I think I'm gonna live to be a hundred and three Feel like wild card, what you say A slice of the night gonna come my way Walking through the city I'm a king of surprise My midnight champagne's ready on ice It's Satu...

The night you take for granted, the stolen chambermaid Still dressin' up as though you're on parade You walk a backroom tightrope, a phoney acrobat Try to charm a China Doll, shoulda known better than that Living on the outside, always looking in Living on th...

Came home from a private doctor Disconnected the telephone Eyes ablaze like the Northern Lights So strung out and there was no one home White line on the burning road Rolling high, collecting maps Shades her eyes, a classic disguise Rendezvous then she loves a...

Ooh baby love me right let me love you till you get it right why can't you let the others be coz with you is where I got to be oh sugar...where've you been hangin' out with your male friends listen...somebodys gonna hurt you the way you love to keep hurting me...

Bought me a box of french cigars Bought me a black beret Get my french from a girl next door Teaching me night and day Got me thinking `bout the south of France Vis-a-vis vous Pack my suitcase, take a chance Got nothing to lose Gimme the sound of the...

Holding council with the King and Queen Tryin' hard to decide the fate of their regime There's only one thing needed to complete the harmonising That's the man with the voice like a scraping violin Waiting for Mr. Damage Toothless jaws gumming melancholy stuf...

Streets are empty and the parks are dark And the shadows in the doorway seem to shout at me It's after midnight and I'm walking alone I'm hearing footsteps down every alley I see Made it past the factories Gotta get through the trees Night opens up for me I'm...

Try to find an empty seat up at the front To take a chance on a loaded dice And if you do they will remember you cause They know once is nothing when you need it twice Take care of desire, beware of the bad nights Make sure that you feel alright because Nigh...

Tell me, why the secrets have disappeared Cover up, the traces of wasted years The traces of wasted years The mirrored face of fear Cover up, the candle that sheds a tear Build it up, alibis for the damned Hide away, don't ever reveal your plan Looked down at...

Amanda the actress waits at the station She's drifting with nothing to do With dilettante steps she's quick to accept The weather and times turning screw She lives in a tower armed with defences She learned from her mother and friends She walks like a pharaoh,...

Hanging out in the streets `till the early day Love's cold as death or so the shadows say Sometimes it seems like another put-up game Of all their secret ties, lovers don't share their pain Young girls who swear they'll never love again Young men join the army...

Are you still hanging out, still not making out Doin' well without me You said you'd take it all and dared the axe to fall I guess you're never coming down babe Baby, out of the blue Baby, out of the blue Are you still running free, still got your master key...

Home movies, cold U.V.'s more groovies Waiting for a ticket of leave Some learners get nervous, the perverts All want to play with Eve Sat back to look at your cracked actors Drowning in a sea of smiles Blue doorways lead four ways they always Said you were a...

When she needs somebody, she's an only child Look into her bedroom, she's a lonely child She's highly rated, sophisticated, she looks so at ease But she's an actress, she's had practice She's not what she seems Don't let her take you in Don't let her take you...

Ask me questions, get no answers Give me nothing, take no chances Show me books with empty pages Wind your clocks and read your gauges Shadow boxer Shadow boxer Tell me truths that have no meaning Live in rooms that have no ceiling Now your friends are all d...

Aristocrats held all the cards The rules they made kept people barred And when the king refused to share their rights They knew this time he'd gone too far The palace guards had guns and mace To keep the marchers in their place But even if their restless blood...

Talk to me, what are you doing? what are you thinking right now? set me free I'm just a prisonerto you and time goes by I'm still waiting forever and a day but, I thought I saw you yesterday I thought those words I heard you say (Chorus) When I look at th...

He was selling postcards from a paper stand A whiskey bottle in his withered hand He put his finger on a photo from an old magazine He saw himself in the shadow of his dream They found him with his head inside a tin-pot crown Told him his feet stank and took h...

(Bla, bla, bla...) (Yeah, yeah, yeah...) Talk, talk, talk, talk Party, last to arrive They all stop talking Standing in a circle of eyes They talk about you Talk about you Talk behind your back Trying to put you down Talk about you Talk about you Every time...

I was the night That pierced the eyes and walls That threw you so high you never came down I was the table To the meal whose memory lasts longer Than photographs I was the doll Now I'm only a giant, I want sunsets to be quiet You were the glass, the wine, the...

Ooh ooh you know how to love me. when i get close at night. ooh i need you so bad baby (ooh oh oh) this is where you belong. dont make me wait too long. hold me baby, drive me crazy, touch me, all nite long, make me love you, kiss and hug you, touch me...

Barefooted could've beens, playing snakes and ladders Climbing up the gravel walk Welcome them inside and you watch their words collide As they try to talk Show them the door to the cold star chamber They say "after you" Then they all take turns waving flags,...

Knocking at the window, standing in the rain Ulysses smiles as he takes his pill The street walker knows his middle name She understands why he's dressed up to kill Poor little rich boy born to the thin woman The papers said he'd never be deprived The dust shi...