I felt those cold metal rings around wrist when I was seventeen Mama wondered where she went wrong when it came to raisin' me I had a bottle and Bible, she said "There ain't no in-between" Well I was hell on an angel, that liquor burned like gasoline I had one foot in the fire the other steppin' on her wings Well that temperature was risin' but I could not feel the heat Well I was hell on an angel that loved the devil out of me Well she wanted her a bad boy with a heart as pure as gold And I loved her to the end of the earth, but I sure loved gettin' stoned It was an early graze with prison for a family and a home That liquor burned like gasoline I had one foot in the fire the other steppin' on her wing Well that temperature was risin' but I could not feel the heat Well I was hell on an angel that loved the devil out of me Well I was hell on an angel, that liquor burned like gasoline I had one foot in the fire the other steppin' on her wings Well that temperature was risin' but I could not feel the heat Well I was hell on an angel that loved the devil out of me