You're a lady, you're an angel Bringin' sunshine to my life You're closest thing, heaven that I've ever had Oh, but sometimes, you're a devil When you reach out and dim the lights An' I say, mmm, mmm, you're so good when you're bad You would never hurt anybody You're too gentle sweet and kind Still I keep on doin' things that make you sad But you don't hold out on your feelin's When there's lovin' on your mind An' I say, mmm, mmm, you're so good when you're bad I could say that you're the perfect woman And if it's not, it's just because of me 'Cause I'm hung up on the perfect woman An' I don't know how I deserve to be I see other pretty women An' Lord, they still, they look good to me An' there are some ladies that can drive some men mad But when an angel let's her hair down Oh, that's something else to see An' I say, mmm, mmm, you're so good when you're bad An' I say, mmm, mmm, you're so good when you're bad

You're kinda small And you're such a doll I'm glad you're mine You're so good to me How come you are? You take my hand And you understand When I get in a bad mood You're so good to me And I love it, love it You're my baby Oh yeah Don't mean maybe Oh yeah I know your eyes Are not on the guys When we're apart You're so true to me How come you are? And every night You hold me so tight When I kiss you goodbye You're so good to me And I love it, love it You're my baby Oh yeah Don't mean maybe Oh yeah You're my baby Oh yeah Don't mean maybe Oh yeah You're my baby Oh yeah Don't mean maybe Oh yeah You're my baby Oh yeah

For you I am praying For you I am praying For you I am praying I'm praying for you Daddy never went to church on Sunday He said that's one thing I'll never do Mama never gave up she said one day He'll be sitting here beside me and you I can still hear Mama softly talking Her tears falling on her folded hands So that Easter Sunday Daddy walked That's when I began to understand When Mama prayed, good things happened When Mama prayed, lives were changed Not much more than five foot tall But mountains big and small Crumbled all the way when Mama prayed Seventeen and wild I hit the bottom Doing and thing I dang well please Burning down life's highway at full throttle While Mama burned a candle on her knees Then one night I came home half sober I saw Mama kneeling in the den As I listened, she and Jesus talked it over And I knew my restless days were 'bout to end It isn't like every one of them got answered But the times they weren't seems to me were rare You almost felt sorry for the devil Cause heaven knows he didn't have prayer When Mama prayed Not much more than five foot tall But mountains big and small Crumbled all the way when Mama prayed Crumbled all the way when Mama prayed

Obscure the late afternoon with a drape Don't let him follow her latest escape Or the fanfare of taxis that needlessly played As a forty watt bulb burns a hole in the shade Then they got into a passionate fight Now she's lost in the shadows thrown over at twilight At the Empire Hotel they first came face to face Pieces would fall off all over the place And there in the debris they'd laugh and recline Tell me my dear are you more or less mine Then they got into a passionate fight She says now this isn't love it's what you do in spite of it And I can't go on with it night after night after night Camphor and cigarettes perfume the scandal Now he's counting the hinges and watching the door handle As he hangs the clothes on the back of the door Perfectly matching outfits that she wore Women come quietly and some remain with their pity But others know the pain of the passion of fight Though the chance they will win is impossibly slight He cowers before them so invitingly And in the long run they'll be chastised and hated Or walk out frustrated or humiliated That is the pointless delight of a passionate fight This isn't love what you do in spite of it I can't go on night after night after Night after night after night after night...