Fallen Angel lyrics

Paradise By The Dashboard Light
Featured Female Vocal: Ellen Foley
Guitar: Todd Rundgren
Piano: Roy Bittan
Bass: Kasim Sulton
Drums: Max Weinberg
Saxophone: Edgar Winter
Keyboards: Jim Steinman, Roy Bittan
Synthesizer: Roger Powell
Background Vocals: Rory Dodd, Todd Rundgren, Ellen Foley, Marvin Lee
Lascivious Effects: Jim Steinman
Baseball Play-by-Play: Phil (Scooter) Rizzuto

Every night I grab some money and I go down to the bar
I got my buddies and a beer I got a dream - I need a car
You got me begging on my knees c'mon and throw the dog a bone
A man he doesn't live by rock 'n roll and brew alone

Baby baby
Rock 'n roll and brew
Rock 'n roll and brew
They don't mean a thing when I compare 'em next to you
Rock 'n roll and brew
Rock 'n roll and brew

Everything is permitted
Everything is allowed
And all our Gods we have outwitted
We are running with the crowd
And all the clocks are showing zero
And all our parents must have fled
And we just never had no hereos
And all our enemies will soon be stone cold dead
Everything is permitted
There is nothing out of bounds
There are no limits or no fences
There is always some way around

I've been trying for hours just to think of what exactly to say
I thought l'd leave you with a letter of firey speech
Like when an actor makes an exit at the end of a play

And l've been dying for hours trying to fill up all the holes with some sense
l'd like to know how you faded and you threw it away
l'd like to give you all the reasons and what everything meant

You like ridin' around with your big brother
In your uncle's custom van
You wanna bleach your hair so bad
But your Mama don't understand
Hangin' around by the monument
Dancin' to the radio
You got a memory even shorter than your dress
But there's nothing you don't know
Priscilla
Priscilla
Nearly sixteen but they treat you like a kid
Priscilla
Priscilla

Hey Ricky, now mine is empty
How about one for you
We could set it out together
Seems tomorrow's overdue
Captain Video, done went home
One pilot laid to rest
And dragon ladies talk that talk
About who loves who - who loves best

Silver bullets in the jukebox
Spin another round
Everybody at the back of the line
It's midnight at the lost and found
Midnight at the lost and found

From the minute I turned and laid eyes on you
I had no eyes of my own I was blind to the world
You were to good to be true but you were something to see
So very young and alone and still I don't believe
The way you turned on me now where's the girl that I knew?
I gave you somewhere to live and then somebody to love
You gave me nothing but trouble - man, I was such a fool

You say you're all alone
And after all the changes you've been through today
You can use a little tenderness, right now
O.K. -- I've been alone
And I can understand the way you feel tonight
Maybe together we can change it all right now
I can tell by the look in your tear-filled eyes
You need somebody you can hold onto
If you really want to
I'd love to hold you
If you really want to

I still dream of you wakin' up openin' your eyes
Like a little girl I once knew walkin' to the window
Lookin' down on the street
You walk with me and I walk with you

Well I thought it all over it doesn't make any sense
Why did it fall apart when it seemed so innocent?
You and I were like a light from a fallen star
You can't go back you can't run away from your heart

Heaven can wait
And a band of angels wrapped up in my heart
Will take me through the lonely night
Throught the cold of the day
And I know
I know
Heaven can wait
And all the gods come down here just to sing for me
And the melody's gonna make be fly
Without pain
Without fear
Give me all of your dreams
And let me go along on your way
Give me all of your prayers to sing

The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling,
way down in the valley tonight.
There's a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye,
and a blade shining oh so bright.
There's evil in the air and there's thunder in sky,
and A killer's on the bloodshot streets.
Oh and down in the tunnel where the deadly are rising,
Oh I swear I saw a young boy down in the gutter,

I took one look and something snapped I said I love your eyes --
You took my heart you took my breath away --
I felt my temperature rise you said you've never loved a man this
way
That it was heaven you were to stay
But now you're just another fallen angel
And I hope that the fall didn't do you no harm
And now you're just another fallen angel
Falling into -- somebody else's arms

I can't stand to see it no more the way you're living with a Goddess
But you treat her like a slave and you can't hold her back anymore
She's like a dreamer in a dungeon or an Angel in a cave
And I'll be closer to you now than any other boy
So you know what I'm saying is true you're gonna break her up
And tear her down and fade her away
And then there's no telling what I'm gonna do

I left my home in Norfolk, Virginia
California on my mind
I straddled that greyhound and rode it into Raleigh
And on across Caroline
We had motor trouble that turned into a struggle
Halfway across Alabama
And that `Hound broke down and left us all
Stranded in Downtown Birmingham
Right away I bought me a through train ticket
Ridin' across Mississippi clean

Two A.M. with the lost and the lonely
Walkin' past the kids comin' back from the party
Smiles on their faces you remember so well how it was
Nights in the back of that buick that you got runnin'
Your baby by your side told the whole world you're comin'
Work so hard to do what is right
Believed in what you're doin'
But so many fights
Trusted too many relieved to much

Never callin', unanswered letters
How you been, feelin' better?
Never lookin', but you're hearin'
Never speakin', but you're feeling
All the silence, and its wounding
You're not healing, just conceding
Play the game, play the game

Oh, brother to brother
All the blood runs red
Don't roll over, don't play dead
We're all livin' on the razor's edge
Oh, brother to brother

I was lost till you were found
But I never know how far down
I was falling
Before I reached the bottom
I was cold and you were fire
And I never knew how the pyre
Could be burning
On the edge of the ice field
And now the chilly California wind
Is blowing down our bodies again
And we're sinking deeper and deeper
In the chilly California sand
Oh I know you belong
Inside my aching heart

From the very first moment I saw you I knew our love would be so
strong
And the very first moment I kissed you I knew our joy would last so
long
And then I saw you making love to my best friend
I didn't kow whatever to say
I saw you making love to my best friend
So I looked him right in his eyes and I said
Listen boy
Won't you take some more, it's what you came for

You know what your name is
You sure of where ya live
You know how much you make
Ah, you know how much you give
You know where your house is
You know which road to take
Ah, but you're sure `bout lots of things
Look out there's one mistake
There just ain't no doubt
There's just one thing you're never too sure about
Never can be too sure about the girl

Everyday of my life they say the same old thing
Hey boy!-(oh boy)- you better wait your turn
And everyday of my life I get the same old line
Hey boy!-(oh boy)- when are you going to learn
I wanna go on the red- I wanna go on the green
I wanna go on all colors that I see in between
I wanna run all the tolls- I wanna run all the signs
I wanna run all the way across a double white line

I was nothing but a lonely boy looking for something new
And you were nothing but a lonely girl
But you were something
Something like a dream come true
I was a varsity tackle and a hell of a block
When I played my guitar
I made the canyons rock-but-
Every Saturday night
I felt the fever grow
Do ya know what it's like
All revved up with no place to go
Do ya know what it's like

Another New York waltz at four A.M.
In the canyons lost at night
The city's just a jail for me
Full of high rise prison walls
And I'm riding through the darkness
`Cause I know there's life within
And I'm searching through the shadows
Just to find that light again
Keep Driving (Keep Driving)
Let the meter run
Keep Driving (Keep Driving)
Oh the night's not really done
Keep Driving