Only Angels Have Wings

Guitar Chords

Michael Dunford/Betty Thatcher

© 1979, 2001 Bleu Disque Music Co.

From the Renaissance Album A Song For All Seasons

Transcription and HTML code by Jan Nijhuis
September 29, 2002

A           E              A
A different smile upon her face
                   D          Esus  E  Esus  E
He's proud to be a part of it all
A         E              A
A welcome from the human race
                   D            Esus  E  Esus  E
A world so big for one who's so small
C#                           F#2
You see they've come so very far
          E                 C#             C#/B
But can't believe that's -- the way it was planned
     C#/A#      C#/A
Just can't understand
     F#               C#
That only angels have wings
C#m
With all the love they could give
          C#m/B
Is this a fit place to live
      A                Esus  E  Esus  E
Where only angels have wings

Through schooldays growing very fast
Today a boy tomorrow a man
His roots set deeply in the past
It's hard to keep your head if you can
You see he's come so very far
But can't believe that's -- the way it was planned
Just can't understand
That only angels have wings
Ambition so low with nowhere to go
As only angels have wings

Chorus:
F#m  E           A       E  D
Then suddenly an element of chance
D              C#m
Night falls on his town
    D                 E
The colours blend and dance
A        E    D          E  A  E
He's breaking in no time to go back
E     A    D  A    E   D
There must be some way out
D           C#m     D                 E
Making life easy -- hear him shout it out

His father can't believe his ears
As mother stands with tears in her eyes
No child of theirs could be so wrong
Deep down inside a part of them dies
You see they tried so very hard
But just can't see that's -- the way it was planned
Just can't understand
That only angels have wings
A prt of our age, on action in rage
And only angels have wings

Chorus:
So far away, a time for second thought
Things seem much clearer now
The price for being caught
He longs for home, and wants to go back
To how it was before
An ordinary person, so happy to be bored