Bruce Springsteen - The Angel lyrics

The angel rides with hunch-backed children, poison oozing from his engine

Wieldin' love as a lethal weapon, on his way to hubcap heaven

Baseball cards poked in his spokes, his boots in oil he's patiently soaked

The roadside attendant nervously jokes as the angel's tires strokes his precious

pavement

The interstate's choked with nomadic hordes

in Volkswagen vans with full running boards dragging great anchors

Followin' dead-end signs into the sores

The angel rides by humpin' his hunk metal whore

Madison Avenue's claim to fame in a trainer bra with eyes like rain

She rubs against the weather-beaten frame and asks the angel for his name

Off in the distance the marble dome

reflects across the flatlands with a naked feel off into parts unknown