Michael Stanley Band: Spanish nights [lyrics]

Michael Stanley Band: Spanish nights [lyrics]

Michael Stanley Band

Spanish nights

In the City of the 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...

  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

       (take away the memories)

  of Spanish nights...

She had been there forever

   and he had been 'somewhere along the way'

And for 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...

  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

       (take away the memories)

  of Spanish nights...

 When you run with the dreamers

      (when you run with the dreamers)

 The going can get so rough

      (get so rough)

 But sooner or later you find out

 that dreams just ain't enough...

      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...

  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

       (take away the memories)

  of Spanish nights...

  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

       (take away the memories)

  of Spanish nights...

       Spanish nights...

Listen to her heartbeat...

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