Travis Randy - Oscar the Angel lyrics

Oscar was an angel and he used to walk the streets

Shoutin' out some prophecy to everyone he'd meet

He was a local fixture; like a cop out on a beat

Folks said he'd been shell-shocked long ago

And more than that, no one seemed to know

Oscar was a walker, at least four miles

twice a day

The entire length of main street he'd be

shoutin' all the way

And i had no idea, where he'd heard the

things he'd say

But he was not your normal voice of doom

It was a happy song, sung slightly out of tune

Chorus:

And he'd say, "everyone will die and go to

heaven

and we will all be angels some day

What you are in this world don't count for

nothin'

'Cause we are only children, we're just lost

along the way

But we will all be angels some day"

Well I worked at the Rialto; I sold tickets

at the door

And Oscar he'd come by most ev'ryday 'bout

half past four

And he'd pay to see some movie that he'd seen

ten times before

But mostly we'd just let him in for free

And he'd watch five minutes, then he'd come

and talk to me

Repeat Chorus

Well it's going on ten years now since i left

my home town

And i went home last summer; for a week i

hung around

I looked out for Oscar; he was nowhere to be

found

Someone said they finally had to commit him

And he died, before they had time to forget

him

Now i'm not about to argue, Oscar's train

had jumped the tracks

But i'll bet my last dollar on a plain and

simple fact

Oscar never said a word about me behind my

back

And the way the I was raised to understand

Well, that bone, makes him the better man

Repeat Chorus:

Ya, we will all be angels someday

[Thanks to bsd987@hotmail.com for lyrics]