I want the angel   Whose dreams are fatal   They cause the snake's milk to run and curdle      I want the angel   Whose darkness doubles   It absorbs the brilliance of all my troubles      I want the angel   That will not shatter   Every time I whisper, "girl it does not matter"      I want the angel   Who's got the proof   She signals her devotion from the rails on the roof      I want the angel   That comes to stay   She don't let lawyers and ambition lead her away      I want the angel   Whose eyes are raving   Who takes what I'm giving and not what I'm saving      I want the angel   Whose bones are so sharp   That they can break through their own excuses      Well, to be a blind man,   Hey, that would be a fine thing   Then I could dream at night of total strangers   And all the music would be so spaceless   And all the women would be so faceless,   They'd be so faceless they'd be like old film   Just like old film I never did process      I want the angel   That knows the sky   She got virtue, she got the parallel light in her eye      I want the angel   That's partly lame   She filters clarity from her desperate shame      I want the angel   That knows rejection   Who's like a whore in love with her own reflection      I want the angel   Whose touch don't miss   When the blood comes through the dropper like a thick red kiss      If I could break through I could be certain   But this obsession is like some fiery curtain   All the numbers reduced to zero   And those who died young, they are my heroes   They are my heroes, they took the walk   Where the heart made sense and the mind can't talk      I want the angel   Whose child don't weep   She's got dreams designed for eternal sleep      I want the angel   That will not change   Into a four-legged monster in love with the strange      I want the angel   That never chooses   And don't come running back every time she loses      But I want the angel that never loses