Beat Angels Lyrics - Twelve Bars Past Midnight - Rickie Lee Jones

Beggin' down these sun beaten streets 

I can't make for no connection 

Locals here don't speak no English 

Where is my woman, no one knows 

It seems some girls just have to leave in the night 

When you're fast asleep 

But I don't worry, I move in the dark 

There were lights, there were border lights 

I thought I heard a drum in the distance play 

I saw the light, I crossed my heart and beat angels were there 

I awoke in some hotel room 

Could hardly remember my name 

They were only sixteen years old 

I was so cold, I was so ashamed 

If sometime I just have to leave 

In the night, when you're fast asleep 

Turn up your radio and I move in the dark 

There will be lights, there are border lights 

Thought I heard a drum in the distance play 

I saw the lights 

Crossed my heart and beat angels were there 

You might wonder where one goes wrong 

It was somewhere in a foreign rain that sent him out to stone 

Every lamplight in town 

Man don't know what he's got it his veins 

Until beat angels come, take him away 

Play on beat angels