Angel in the Bottle

Different angel. Same bottle.

This is pretty much the first publicly released recording of this song that I can think of, off hand. Though I've played it in public a few times, I never could quite get the right feel any time I tried to cut it. But, hey, that's precisesly what the AYoS project is all about... cutting through the crap and getting this stuff recorded, even if the performances are, shall we say, often compromised.

The song itself is sort of a distillation of some of my common themes. [Buh doom tshhh!] I wrote it back in my drinking days, although, interestingly, at a time when I was steering a very moderate drinking course. But that moderate drinking went so well, I found myself wanting to do it more and more often... until I was drinking -- quite moderately, mind you -- 12 beers a day, day in and day out. (Okay, somedays it was 11 and some days it was probably more like 15.)

(A note on the picture: whisky wasn't really my thing -- though I certainly drank my share -- but a picture of a 12 pack of Bud up there wouldn't have looked all that dramatic, now, would it?)


Angel in the Bottle

There's an angel
in the bottle
but the devil's still alive
inside of me

I'm sitting
here in limbo
got my whole life
in back of me

Baby I thought
I'd be the one to save you
but I never dreamed
I couldn't even save myself


Well there's one thing
that by now is plain
through these forty years
of life death and change

There's something broken
down inside of me
deep down inside you see
I've got this pain

Baby I thought
I'd be the one to save you
but I never dreamed
I couldn't even save myself

There's an angel
in the bottle
but the devil's still alive
inside of me


(C)1990,2005, TK Major