Rickie Lee Jones
Recordings Traffic From Paradise Beat Angels

 


length: 4:12 minutes
vocals: Rickie Lee Jones
backup vocals: David Hidalgo, Brian Setzer, Syd Straw
eight string electric guitar
: David Hidalgo

 

 

 

 

Beat Angels
(Sal Bernardi)

Beggin down these sun beaten streets
I can't make for no connection
Locals here don't speak no English
Where is my woman, no one knows
It seems some girls just have to leave in the night
When you're fast asleep
But I don't worry, I move in the dark
There were lights, there were border lights
I thought I heard a drum in the distance play
I saw the light, I crossed my heart and beat angels were there

I awoke in some hotel room
Could hardly remember my name
They were only sixteen years old
I was so cold, I wast so ashamed
If sometime I just have to leave
In the night, when you're fast asleep
Turn up your radio andI move in the dark
There will be lights, there are border lights
Thought I heard a drum in the distance play,
I saw the lights
Crossed my heart and beat angels were there

You might wonder where one goes wrong
It was somewhere in a foreign rain
that sent him out to stone
every lamplight in town
Man don't know what he's got it his veins
Until beat angels come take him away

Play on beat angels