Shannon McNally - Rock And Roll Angels lyrics

Rock and roll angels and barroom saints Reliving your checkered pasts Composing your Hallelujah chorus Tying memos to your tattered masts Will you always be broke Choked on slivered dreams With dumb luck and fat chance As the constant features on your silver screen Or will the seas part to that other land Where things will get easier and you'll get a hand How much more can they sell you Sell you things that money can't buy Can you believe a word they tell you? It's the words they left out that left you this way Those things that they forgot to say When I was single I dressed so fine My shoes did not squeak across the floor I was led to the altar wearing black crinoline Summer star as the evening began Be good to the first for the last is much worse They will turn you to dust in your grave And the moon gives no light You're traveling blind Soon as your back's turned You're cursed and maligned Like the book of Job in three quarter time How much more can they sell you Sell you things that money can't buy Can you believe a word they tell you? It's the words they left out that left you this way Those things that they forgot to say From less of an altar and more of a dashboard More from the wand and less from the lord Into your dreams we'll gather in flight Hoist your song deep in the night Rock and roll angels So far from saints