Take It to the Streets

The Angels Take It to the Streets Lyrics
1.To the Streets


2.Wounded Healer


3.Waiting for the Sun


4.Life Gets Better


5.Telephone


6.No Sleep In Hell

Hotshot, still not listening
It's all in his head
Flying high sights on sunset
Crashed instead
You take the first, now take the rest,
Before you leave
Couldn't be too easy, what you say

No sleep in hell
Another star is felled
Try another pill
Too many profits with time to kill

No time a soldier of fortune
From who's heard?
Speech come, heart beats a warning
No one heard
Nights filled with sawdust sleeper
White and red
It's a dangerous game is what you said

No sleep in hell
Another star is felled
Try another pill
Wake up wake up
No sleep in hell
Another star is felled
Try another pill
Too many profits and time to kill

Hotshot, still not listening
It's all in his head
Flying high sights on sunset
Crashed instead
Nights filled with sawdust sleeper
White and red
If the dangerous game is what you said

No sleep in hell
Another star is felled
Try another pill
Wake up wake up
No sleep in hell
Another star is felled
Try another pill
Too many profits and time to kill

No time no time
No sleep in hell
Another star is felled
Try another pill
No sleep in hell
Too many profits and time to kill


7.The More You Give


8.Pump It Up


9.There Comes a Time


10.Small Price


11.Getting Free


12.Some Kinda Hell In Here


13.Free Bird


14.Ivory Stairs (Live)

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 you climb, the deeper you go
Talking about a change, nothing changed so slow

Climbing up the ivory stairs
Never gonna get anywhere
Slipping on the first step, can't get a good grip
Climbing up the ivory stairs

Any kid on the street with his ear to the ground
Knows credit card conspiracy and flesh by the pound
Harlequin dancin' 'tween the sun and the moon
They got you dancing to a gallows tune

Climbing up the ivory stairs
Never gonna get anywhere
Slipping on the first step, can't get a good grip
Climbing up the ivory stairs

Climbing up the ivory stairs
Never gonna get anywhere
Slipping on the first step, can't get a good grip
Climbing up the ivory stairs

(Solo)

Oh no, you found the door
Too late you found that you never got the key
Oh no, in the confusion
Don't turn your weary eyes on me

Harlequin dancin' 'tween the sun and the moon
Got you dancing to a gallows tune
Tell me what happened to your well laid plan
To make yourself a singularly self-made man
Catch you running to your candy colored Chevrolet
Consumer consumed, the loser has to pay
The higher you climb, the deeper you go
Talking about a change, nothing changed so slow

Climbing up the ivory stairs
Never gonna get anywhere
Slipping on the first step, can't get a good grip
Climbing up the ivory stairs

Climbing up the ivory stairs
Never gonna get anywhere
Slipping on the first step, can't get a good grip
Climbing up the ivory stairs
Ivory Stairs

(Watch your step)
(Watch your step)
(Watch your step)
Climbing up the ivory stairs

(Watch your step)
(Watch your step)
(Watch your step)
Climbing up the ivory stairs


15.After the Rain (Live)

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 is falling
After the rain
After the rain

Who took the gold from their teeth
Who takes the ancient masterpiece
After the rain
After the rain
Who throws the winning dice
Who lies beneath the ice
After the rain
After the rain

Somebody save me
The water's rising
Sweet Jesus take the blame
Who knows whose star is falling
After the rain
After the rain

(Solo)

Somebody save me
The water's rising
Sweet Jesus take the blame
Who knows whose star is falling
After the rain
After the rain

After the rain
After the rain
After the rain


16.No Secrets (Live)

(Bidstrup-Neeson)
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 with defences
She learned from her mother and friends
She walks like a pharaoh, dresses in day-glo
When she's in pain she pretends...
That late in the night when the lights are all out
Then she slips off her stockings and shoes
She makes you her lover and lets you discover
The smiles she keeps, she keeps for you
She keeps no, she keeps no
She keeps no secrets from you
Facing the morning, wearing her shadow
She throws her dice and I-ching
Success in Japan, a rescuing man
Knows she won't change anything
'Cause late in the night when the lights are all out
Then she slips off her stockings and shoes
She makes you her lover and lets you discover
The smiles she keeps, she keeps for you
She keeps no, she keeps no
She keeps no secrets from you
She keeps no secrets from you
She keeps no secrets from you
She keeps no secrets from you
Can you please tell me what the time is?


17.Marseilles (Live)

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 rolling dice
Gimme a whiskey, don't think twice
Deal me the card that takes my blues away
Take me away to Marseilles

Fast train, jet plane, money to burn
Don't ask no reasons why
Drinkin' champagne, playin' cool
Don't even have to try

Gimme the sound of the rolling dice
Gimme a whiskey, don't think twice
Deal me the card that takes my blues away
Take me away to Marseilles


18.Outcast (Live)

(Would you like some of this?)
Drop the morning overdose, the day has just begun
draw back te veil, bare your stonenity, your bleeding gums
you look in the looking glass before you look outside
stand and stare your fish-eye's open wide
Live along the hour glass, don't need no alibi
the tragic end that's just begun
there's a shodow in your eye
the day is only half past, you might see eye to eye
but who'd make love to and outcast?
Take off your jewel of jewels, where's your social war?
just don't leave your wet footprints on my bedroom door
you look at the lightning, you do not blink
feeling for the scar -- but it's too late now
to suffer much -- it's gone too far


19.I Ain't the One (Live)

Smokers smoking in the smoking room, fishes in the fish tank
Sailors waiting for the tide to turn, too bad the ship sank
Well dressed wax-work wound up to walk
Stares through the window
Clown in the alley-way looking for an exit, facing the shadows
I don't patronise you
I don't' try to put you down
I don't criticise you
I ain't the one , I ain't the one to judge
Hard hitting journalist, says he's a communist
Says he believes in world war III
Lives in a high-rent luxury apartment, he ain't fooling me
I don't patronise you
I don't' try to put you down
I don't criticise you
I ain't the one , I ain't the one to judge
Reading the newspaers, keeping in touch
They steal your secrets, but I ain't the one to judge


20.Mr. Damage (Live)

Holding council with the king and queen
Trying hard to decide the fate of their regime
There's only one needed to complete the harmonizin'
And that's a man with a voice like a scraping violin
Waiting for Mr. Damage

Toothless jaws gumming melancholy stuff
A burst of rapid fire Spanish from a window up above
Students out to pose in studied dissarray
Books of Sartre, Marcuse openly displayed
Waiting for, Mr. Damage

Mr. Damage, walks through the doors of the sacrificial church
Mr. Damage, meets you in the lobby then leaves you in the lurch
Mr. Damage, stands at the altar, Sermon of the search
All the faithful follow

Resident winos stumbling and lurching
Walking cadavers smiling and searching
Man in the DT's looking at the feeble glossy portraits of long
dead celebrated people
Waiting for Mr. Damage

Trying hard just to keep a candle lit
A leather flyer leaves the subway anxious to admit
That the marvelled one so recently deposed was seen
Three days later in a brand new suit of clothes
A brand new suit of clothes for a very special day
A brand new suit of clothes for a very special day
A brand new suit of clothes for a very special day
A very special day, a very special day, a very very very special
dayyyyy - OOOOWWWWWW

Mr Damage holds a curse
Mr Damage drives a hearse
Don't you know who did it first...Mr Damage

Holding council with the king and queen
Trying hard to decide the fate of their regime
There's only one needed to complete the harmonizin'
And that's a man with a voice like a scraping violin
Waiting for Mr. Damage

Mr. Damage, walks through the doors of the sacrificial church
Mr. Damage, meets you in the lobby then leaves you in the lurch
Mr. Damage, stands at the altar, Sermon of the search
All the faithful follow

Holding frozen hands as Mr,
Holding frozen hands as Mr,
Holding frozen hands as Mr,
Damage holds the curse.......


21.Face the Day (Live)

I don't wanna face the day, the day, today
I don't wanna face the day, the day, today
Long night leaves me stranded
black visions, danger signs
no love, need protection
feels like I'm on production line
daggers of dawn, cold hearted-day
why does it have to be morning?
cover my head, stayin' in bed
too late, the luckless warning
I don't wanna face the day, the day, today
I don't wanna face the day, the day, today
Outside, screaming city
red lights and hungry eyes
sucks like a space invader
the vacuum of its lies
stealing my strenght, stealing my time
it's raining in a world of traders

I dont wanna face the day
I dont wanna face the day
Let me keep on sleeping
forget that I'm alone
one day of faceless living
is 24 hours too long!
I dont wanna face the day
I dont wanna face the day
I don't wanna face the day, the day, today
I don't wanna face the day, the day, today
Give the night, it's more forgiving
hold back the light from my eyes
please stay invisible darkness
can't see the tears I cry
I know it's coming loaded with nothing
trapped in a tunnel of time
I dont wanna face the day


22.Take a Long Line (Live)

He was selling postcards from a paper stand
A whiskey bottle in his withered hand
He put a finger on a photo from an old magazine
And 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 him downtown
Called him agitator, spy and thief
Shut him up in solitary third degree
Take a long line, reel him in
He tried to appeal to the king of might
He said 'I'm just excercising my sacred right'
The king he said 'You ain't got no rights
You're a madman, a traitor, get outta my sight'
Take along line, reel him in
They put him aboard a well wound whirlwind
Pulled out his teeth and rold him to grin
He gave them a smile, pulled out a bottle of wine
And said 'I never existed, you've been wasting your time'
Take a long line, reel him in


23.Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again (Live)

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?

Trams cars and taxis, like a wax-works on the move
Carrying young girls past me, but none of them are you

Am I ever gonna see your face again?

Without you near me I got no place to go
Wait at the bar, maybe you might show

Am I ever gonna see your face again?

I got to stop these tears that's falling from my eye
Go walk out in the rain, so no one sees me cry

Am I ever gonna see your face again?

Can't stop the memory that goes climbing through my brain
I get no answer so the question still remains

Am I ever gonna see your face again?


24.Shadow Boxer (Live)

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 departed
So your secret's closely guarded

Shadow boxer
Shadow boxer
Shadow boxer

Don't go walking out late at night
Bolt your door, lock your windows tight
Be much safer staying out of sight

You're just a shadow boxer
Shadow boxer
Shadow boxer

(Solo)

Don't go walking out late at night
Bolt your door, lock your windows tight
Be much safer staying out of sight
You might go down in a state of fright
Watch out when you're all alone
Locked inside your safety zone
You might find that you have turned to stone

Shadow boxer
Shadow boxer
Shadow boxer
Shadow boxer
You ain't nothin' but a shadow boxer
Shadow boxer
Shadow boxer


25.When the Time Comes (Live)

Howling wind, let it blow
easy come, easy go
When the time comes
you'll be the first to know
Late at night, dressed to kill
how could I hold you still
When the time comes
you'll be the first to know
When the time comes

you'll be the first to know
Hold me lover, take me down
come on over my side of town
When the time comes
When the time comes
you'll be the first to know
When the time comes...