I loved the autumn, I loved the circus and I loved the nights at the arcade.
I heard "Tom Joad," I heard "Thunder Road." We went to Glouchester everyday.
Now I want to go to New york, I want to live in New York and maybe someday Paraguay.

Cause there's a thousand angels, no, there's a million angels singing over Atlanta everyday.
Some nights when the moon is out and the whole world looks like the seed of doubt
Have been planted by these men with their shovels and creeds.

But we had our names, we had our rights, we had those cops and those crazy nights.
San Antonio. Georgia. Memphis, Tennessee.
But I want to go to New York, I want to live in New York, and maybe someday Paraguay.

There's a thousand angels, no, there's a million angels singing over Atlanta everyday.
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I heard they all got married, I heard they all got babies, I heard they all got filthy bills to pay.

I met Jesus at a diner, the service couldn't have been finer. he says he's coming back again some day.
Maybe then I'll see you, and the whole wide world will see to:
There was never any harm in loving you.

Now I'll go to new york, now I'll live in New York and maybe some day Paraguay.
Cause there's a thousand angels, no no no, there's a million angels singing over Atlanta this very day.