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THE ANGEL IN YOU
Music and Lyrics
by Becky Durango


You had something
that I needed
cause you got the man
I wanted
I found pieces
of your victories
left all around the scene
An Erotica Madonna,
dirty dancing in a red dress
Oh so sexy husky talking on his answering machine

You were smoking hot in bed on that new bedspread that you bought him
You wrote love notes
on his mirror in the steam
for me to find
And he told me
it was only an affair
that it meant nothing
Then he packed up all the clothes and gifts
that you had left behind

But it was really myself I was looking for
In the dark night pounding for hours on his door
Was it you stalking me, or me stalking you?
Betrayals and lies all mixed up in the truth
It took such a long time before I could see
That the devil in you
was the devil in me

You took something
that I needed
to keep the man I wanted
I watched your belly growing as I’d longed for mine to do
But he swore that you were vicious, cold and calculated, planning
And he owed it
to the both of us, he had to see it through

So it was me who was with him on the day
you were in childbirth
And I bore the trembling terror of your hangup calls
at night
Til your threats down at my office finally caved me
and I lost it
It just seemed the best solution was for one of us
to die

But it was really myself I was looking for
When I hunted you down to clean up the score
Was it you stalking me, or me stalking you?
Betrayals, and lies all mixed up in the truth
It took such a long time before I could see
That the devil in you was the devil in me

As I watched you with the baby, my heart was breaking open
There was nothing I could do except refuse to play along
And I’m not sure how
it happened, I just knew there were no winners
and it didn’t seem to matter, so I turned and I was gone

Cause it was really myself I was looking for
I just didn’t know how I would live through my fear
It took such a long time for me to break free
But it happened when I felt your own agony ----

I found everything I needed, once alone my life
grew simple
No more drama, no more chaos running rampant through my veins
Now I am forever grateful – I can rise above betrayal
To the healing peace that only true forgiveness
can bring

So I answered when you called me some years later, you were begging
“Tell me please how did you do it? How did you get away?”
Then you told me how he’d choked you and left you and the baby
With no jackets on a winter road, and nowhere safe
to stay

So I took you in and shared my home
and between us a deep special friendship has grown
Now I feel such great joy – it grew out of the pain
and I know I will not be held hostage again----
Now my heart is set free, it’s so easy to see
That the Angel in you, is the Angel in me
The Angel in you
is the Angel in me
Yes, the Angel in you
is the Angel in me