U2 Lyrics

Album: BEST OF U2-1980-90

Angel Of Harlem Lyrics

It was a cold and wet December day

 When we touched the ground at JFK

 Snow was melting on the ground

 On BLS I heard the sound

 Of an angel

 

 New York, like a Christmas tree

 Tonight this city belongs to me

 Angel

 

 Soul love...this love won't let me go

 So long...angel of Harlem

 

 Birdland on fifty-three

 The street sounds like a symphony

 We got John Coltrane and a love supreme

 Miles says she's got to be an angel

 

 Lady Day got diamond eyes

 She sees the truth behind the lies 

 Angel

 

 Soul love...this love won't let me go

 So long...angel of Harlem

 Angel of Harlem

 

 She says it's heart...heart and soul...

 Yeah yeah...(yeah)

 Yeah yeah...(right now)

 

 Blue light on the avenue

 God knows they got to you

 An empty glass, the lady sings

 Eyes swollen like a bee sting

 Blinded you lost your way

 Through the side streets and the alleyway

 Like a star exploding in the night

 Falling to the city in broad daylight

 An angel in Devil's shoes

 Salvation in the blues

 You never looked like an angel

 Yeah yeah...angel of Harlem

 

 Angel...angel of Harlem...

 [Repeat and fade]