Hush little angel, won't you try 

The devil hears you when you cry 

So you can't and you won't 

Give up the ghost now 

Leave it alone 

You know you don't need those lessons 

Someone else learned 

It's your life 

It's your right to burn 



So you count and discount 

All the cracks in the pavement 

As you move about 

You say that you'll take the push 

For the sake of the pull 

When you're deaf dumb and blind 

Your eyes don't feel the wool 

And every time it's 

Hush little angel, won't you try 

The devil hears you when you cry 

Hush little angel close your eyes 

Think pleasant dreams and truer lies 



It's not like those tales 

Of glass and devotion 

They like to sell 

Oh you just want to be wanted 

It's making you sick 

But it's all right 

Oh yeah, it's only a prick 



And that's how you know 

That it's bad 

It's the problem with pain 

It's just something to have 

Oh, babe you're running the clock 

Cuz, you can't make it stop 

So just sit still 

And hope the hammer won't drop 



And every time it's ... 

Hush little angel, won't you try 

The devil hears you when you cry 

Hush little angel close your eyes 

Think pleasant dreams and bluer skies 

Angel don't you cry 



(Beavan / Beavan - ASCAP / Easy Girl Music / Wavedriver Music 2006)