Who Knows How to Love an Angel Lyrics

Somebody told me that death is not the end

I said I know, life ends all the time

Get no say to begin with

Or when the road takes a bend

When is a heart broken in?

Who knows how to love an angel

Is that why we do time on earth, to learn?

Who knows how to live with angels

When living with yourself is so much work?

I had loved her too much

Or perhaps not enough

Either way we were no angels that's for sure

I'd wrought myself off

Everything I had was lost

I was starting over the uncountableth time

Wincing and wheezing along a winter night

I'd been running away from my folk

Couldn't tell who I was

Til I knew I was alone

Hanging up their pictures in my empty home

And who knows how to love an angel

Aren't they easier to like up on a wall?

Oh who knows how to live with angels

When it's hard work to like yourself at all

Well it's hard to ignore

How revolting people are

Even harder to own up to your flaws

Still on earth, just like you

Forced to work and to consume

What do you call a miracle nobody wants?

So I turn in my stool

And raise my glass to you

Tell me stranger, how on earth have you been?

So death is not the end

The angels aren't done, my friend

What are you and I

But playthings for some saint?

Who knows how to love an angel

Is that what we do time on earth to learn?

I don't know if I could live with angels

It's hard work to live

Such hard work to live

Such hard work just living with yourself