Elegy - Angel Without Wings lyrics

[Music, lyrics & vocal melody: Ian Parry]

Growing up in extreme poverty,

and living in a town filled with empty promises,

the young boy is filled with scepticism.

He battles between right and wrong.

Facing a horrifying decision, which no child should have to make,

his whole life could be turned upside down.

Does he listen to the wishes of his kind, but stressful mother,

to remain living in poverty, and be persecuted by many?

The alternative is to take a road into crime and deception,

with his so called friends.

Either way he'll suffer the consequences.

[Verse]

His mother sad, now she's left alone

No shoulder to cry on, no hand to hold

To stay alive, worked her fingers to the bone

Guilt nor shame, her child must have a home

She tried to teach him right from wrong

A town without vision, they don't belong

Eternal friends, persuasive lies

Tainted images, through sorry eyes

[Bridge]

Don't be shy, pull up a stool, stick with us

You'll do okay

Money talks, that's their rule,

Once you join, you're here to stay

you can't walk away

[Chorus]

Lord knows she tried hard to save him

The angel without wings

[Verse]

Stigmatised, the poor, the few

Opportunities given, but not to you

He searched along the corridors of power

A fruitless journey, his darkest hour

[Bridge]

By any rule he doesn't play,

Now he's the keeper, no-one's fool

Who said crime doesn't pay

All his fears have disappeared

[Chorus]

Lord knows she tried so hard, to save him

Lord knows she tried so hard, to save him

[Middle-8]

The angel without wings

Time, will it tell, a choice of heaven or hell

[Repeat chorus]

[Outro]

The years have passed by, the leaves have fallen

Learn to survive in time, you're on your own