Lucinda Williams - Drunken Angel Lyrics

The beginning sounds like the start of Maggie May.

LW is a legend

quit sending me bobby brown smoking crackpipes vs chris brown defenestrating rihanna's pubes with a weed whacker & i promise i'll take dowm my bazookatooth kawazaki ninja calgary flames mod angelfire fan page druscilla

Hey Lucinda, I hope you don't turn into a 'Drunken Angel'.

Not idea who the singer is, but I heard this on Radio 1 tonight for the time and love it.

I love this song

BLAZE FOLEY!!🇺🇸🍻🍻

Photo starting at 50secs would make a great poster for my mancave
Would love to get it ;)

This is my friend who is a very talented musician who died 3yrs.

Sun came up it was another day
And the sun went down you were blown away
Why'd you let go of your guitar
Why'd you ever let it go that far
Drunken Angel
Could've held on to that long smooth neck
Let your hand remember every fret
Fingers touching each shiny string
But you let go of everything
Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel
You're on the other side
Drunken Angel
You're on the other side
Followers would cling to you
Hang around just to meet you
Some threw roses at your feet
And watch you pass out on the street
Drunken Angel
Feed you and pay off all your debts
Kiss your brow taste your sweat
Write about your soul your guts
Criticize you and wish you luck
Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel
You're on the other side
Drunken Angel
You're on the other side

[SOLO]

Some kind of savior singing the blues
A derelict in your duct tape shoes
Your orphan clothes and your long dark hair
Looking like you didn't care

Drunken Angel
Blood spilled out from the hole in your heart
Over the strings of your guitar
The worn down places in the wood
That once made you feel so good
Drunken Angel
Drunken Angel
You're on the other side
Drunken Angel
You're on the other side
Sun came up it was another day
And the sun went down you were blown away
Why'd you let go of your guitar
Why'd you ever let it go that far
Drunken Angel Drunken Angel

Took me 20 years to finally hear this song, and of all places at a Starbucks. Good tune.

Blaze was a Saint. there are street Saints all over...or Jesus if you will. PFA ya might know one. PFA=pay fucking attention..

16 ..cross-eyed-drunks :)

We need her to tell stories we cant'tell...

Criticize you and wish you luck... drunken angel

Miss you Tom August 1 2015 you died

I will go as far to say Lucinda Williams has the most beautiful voice of any female performer

Justin Myslive She does have an amazing voice

Truly no one else in her class. My muse.

How Can You NOT Love Lucinda, Right?

Hestia Deanne I couldn't agree more

go Lucinda just too bad you wrote it for your fallen friend blaze Foley. music with real emotion, no over produced synth crap

A most distinctive voice.  It has to be Lucinda.

Thumbs up for Blaze Foley legacy!

Rafael Schoch AMEN brother

FEMALE NEIL YOUNG

Fucking Outstanding Comparison!.... my life trifecta has ever been Bob - Lucinda - Neil (w/room for Townes, Guy and John). Made my day - if this was Reddit I'd send you a gold medal. r o t b d

"Derelict, in duct-tape shoes," for some reason, I just love this line.

you know the story behind it?

@ALLMIGHTYWU I know the basics. That line in particular is just my favorite.

@Jacob Lucas oh cool, makes me laugh that story. happy days

Thx's F-Excellent Song

got that  voice that makes a perfect song about blaze 

Imaginava outra coisa O.O

cinda, great

song for Blaze Foley.

lumaz71 very good not many know that

Lucinda rules...

Cheers!

Lucinda indeed rules..

Love this song!

Colldan09 how could you not

Great song!!!

Just one of several songs from a great album fueled on heart, guts, and soul.  Don't want pretty, don't want cute...want real.  THIS is real.

ROGER THAT!!!

Cheers!

Art Edwards well put, bro

Así es. La mejor...

I'm one of 'em. Thank You Lucinda. Some of us are really not so bad.

this song was written for my husband he is or was a drunken angel luv you poobie

the problem with too much drinking, before you know it you see alot of women who look like attractive angels. iykwim.

raw is good, excepting seafood.

Cheers!
FrankC32

This song is so raw

love this song

I hear THAT, my friend, I hear THAT.

"Car Wheels On A Gravel Road" (1998) is a seminal LP, period, end of story.

Great cameos by Steve Earle and Charlie Sexton

Hang in there, we are the winners.

Cheers!
FrankC32

I've known a few drunken angels in my 53 years. Some are still here, most are not. But I had feelings for them all.