Spanish Nights Lyrics

from "MSB", 1982, EMI Records Group
& "Live At Tangiers: The Acoustic Shows", 1998, Razor & Tie Entertainment Corp.



In the City of Angels tonight
    down off one of those freeways
The breeze ain't movin' nothin',
   But the blue hotel light
and the ladies on the corner
      swear they could make it right

And he sits with his head in his hands
   She sits listening to the radio
And things--they ain't worked out
   exactly as planned
But then, Southern California
      ain't no place to make a stand...



(CHORUS:)

    And she holds on--she holds on
    to St. Christopher

    And she shines on--and he heads
    for the light

    And they can't take away the memories
    of Spanish nights...



She had been there forever
   and he had been 'somewhere along the way'
They were passionate people
   these are desperate times
Desperate measures call for
      passionate crimes

So they stole all the love they could handle
   living underneath the hotel law
And you don't take prisoners
   when you live on the run
And this town--it can finish
      anything you've begun...


(CHORUS)


BRIDGE:

When you run with the dreamers
The going can get so rough
And sooner or later you find out
that dreams just ain't enough...

And they swore that each time was the last one
   You know, two hearts can only take so much...
And you can't live in love songs
   but, oh, how they tried
Alone in the darkness
      with the whispers and cries


          But then...

        In the City of the Angels tonight...
            down off one of those freeways
              the breeze ain't movin' nothin'
          but the blue hotel light...


(CHORUS TWICE)


Listen to her heartbeat...
Listen to her heartbeat...
Listen to her heartbeat...




--words & music by Michael Stanley