Styx Lyrics

Album: Brave New World

Fallen Angel Lyrics

Written by Dennis DeYoung

Lead Vocals by Dennis DeYoung

Hell nobody's perfect

One hundred percent

No saint, no Pope, no King no Queen

No President

But our hunger for heroes

Has made us blind

We seek salvation

From the cup of human kind

But every time we hear the voice

Of some new Abraham

We wake too late to realize

It was just another scam

Fallen angel, fallen angel

Well I guess you were no angel after all

Fallen angel, fallen angel

You always take us with you when you fall

I said nobody's perfect

From head to toe

Not Einstein or Elvis or Lennon & Marx

Or Marilyn Monroe

Cause it's mostly illusion

In flesh and bone

An image, a look, a song or a book

That we all claim for our own

But even in the best of us

There lies beneath the skin

The tragic flaw in nature's law

That's bound to do us in

Fallen angel, fallen angel

Well I guess you were no angel after all

Fallen angel, fallen angel

You always take us with you when you fall

Pretty faces up on the silver screen

Flawless bodies on covers of magazines

They all look perfect to us

So rich and cool and bored

But hold the presses boys

They've checked into Betty Ford

Turns out nobody's perfect

From "A" to "Z"

It's best to follow your heart

Then to follow me

Cause I'm only a singer

Playin' a song

And I've just been making it up

As I went along

See I met a man who told me once

"Sincerity's the key

And once you learn to fake it

Son you're gonna be home free"

Fallen angel, fallen angel

Well I guess you were no angel after all

Fallen angel, fallen angel

You always take us with you when you fall