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Album: Wanderer (2018)
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    Angel of Death
    Let me tell you a story about black
    The one memory and the one who threw it right back
    He was down, so I took a ride
    He moved the westway out of there
    So I took his advice
    Oh, two seconds flat
    If I'd have know he woulda treated me like that
    Whoa oh, two seconds flat
    How was I to know he woulda done me like that?

    He had an empty gaze
    In his eyes, like a bear
    Took me firmly
    I threw the coat away just like a foxy set
    Oh whoa, who's lookin' at ya?
    Who was a good kid when God was lookin' after ya?
    Wow oh, who'll make it through?
    How was I to know, he woulda done this to you?

    He made his move, and I was down all along
    I kept asking to come up for luck
    I would take and he would turn and
    Wait, let me catch my breath
    That's black if you can catch him with it
    I was someone who believed in sin
    He said, I think I know just who that is

    Whoa oh, who's lookin' at ya?
    Who was a good kid when God was lookin' after ya?
    Whoa oh, who'll make it through?
    How was I to know, he woulda done this to you?

    Dead man now, once was a friend
    Ran all the way upstairs just to make my defense
    Threw me in the bath, with ice and a slab
    Can of coke, down my throat
    Almost his whole hand went in
    First I was amused, closest to death I'd ever been
    When the white light went away
    I knew death was setting in
    If I knew, I would tell ya
    To keep trouble off, I tell ya
    You're the next one to get
    Left with this story, that's when you go mad
    That's black

    Whoa oh (Angel of Death), who's that lookin' at ya?
    Who'll be a good kid now that I'm lookin' after ya?
    Whoa oh, who'll make it through?
    How was I to know, black would turn from me to you?

    Angel of Death
    Angel of Death
    Angel of Death
    Angel of Death
    Angel of Death
    Angel of Death
    Angel of Death
    Angel of Death Writer/s: Chan Marshall
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Red Brick Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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