Melissa Etheridge Lyrics

Album: Breakdown

Angels Would Fall Lyrics

The rope that's wrapped around me

Is cutting through my skin

And the doubts that have surrounded me 

Are finding their way in 

I keep it close to me 

Like a holy man prays 

In my desperate hour

It's better that way 

So I'll come by and see you again 

I'll be such a very good friend 

Have mercy on my soul

I will never let you know 

Where my mind has been

Angels never came down

There's no one here they want to hang around

But if they knew 

If they knew you at all

Then one by one the angels 

Angels would fall 

I've crept into your temple 

I have slept upon your pew

I've dreamed of the divinity 

Inside and out of you

I want it more than truth 

I can taste it on my breath

I would give my life just for a little death

So I'll come by and see you again

I'll be just a very good friend

I will not look upon your face 

I will not touch upon your grace 

Your ecclesiastic skin 

Angels never came down

There's no one here they want to hang around

But if they knew 

If they knew you at all

Then one by one the angels 

Angels would fall 

I'll come by and see you again

I'll have to be a very good friend

If I whisper they will know 

I'll just turn around and go 

You will never know my sin 

Angels never came down

There's no one here they want to hang around

But if they knew 

If they knew you at all

Then one by one the angels 

Angels would fall (2x's)