Angel Whiskey

I met her when I got to town

Killing time she'd never found

Dead men telling dead men's tales

Through dirty shades of gray

A who is you and where you at

A thousand words, a smile and dance

Ten shots of Jack for all my friends

Trembling at the hands

Angel Whiskey was her name

It's funny, it was all the same

Romancing in the Vieux Carré

Night turned into day

Eyes like starlight been and gone

A wicked laugh, forbidden song

My innocent caught up by sin

My Lucifer's true love

Angel Whiskey, my disgrace

I couldn't stare into your face

Your eyes stared cold and grey and true

Into an empty soul

Angel Whiskey, my disgrace

I couldn't stare into your face

Your eyes stared cold and grey and true

Into an empty soul

I curse the day I came to town

This dead man's dream, this widow's gown

This spirit from the devil's realm

Jealous to the end

The old folks in their drunken homes

The women roam like battered ghost

Hearts of men are turned to stone

Their children are the damned

In another city God forgot

I left my liver to the rot

Angel Whiskey, please don't leave me

To this fate of mine

Nighttime turning into day

No altar there for me to pray

Forgive me for a thousand nights

That I will never know

Life in dreary paradise

I lost my past but with a price

A wicked roll of the dice

Was all that it took

Gambling on another tab

Till break of dawn to pay them back

Testing fate in my Angel's lap

My sorry quest for love

Some say he took her from my side

Some say she left to kill my pride

With Whiskey as my only guide

You might guess that I was lost

When I stumbled in that wicked dawn

And I saw that she was gone

My heart sank like a tombstone

Into a lake of fire

Angel Whiskey, my disgrace

I couldn't stare into your face

Your eyes stared cold and grey and true

Into my empty soul

Nighttime turning into day

No altar there for me to pray

Forgive me for a thousand nights

That I will never know