Well, you wouldn't read my letters if I wrote you
You asked me not to call you on the phone
There's something I've been waiting for to tell you
So I wrote it in the words of this song

You never knew there were honky tonk angels
Or you might have known, I'd never make a wife
You walked out on the only one who ever loved you
So I went on back to the wild side of life

Now the climate of the good life always led me
To the places where the wine and the liquor flow
I tried to be your one and only angel
But I'm not that kind of angel heaven knows, no, no, no, no, no

I cried so hard the day you went and left me
'Cause the things you said they cut me like a knife
What you wanted was another kind of angel
And you sent me back to the wild side of life, no

Well, I guess I'm just a honky tonk angel
And I might have known I'd never make a wife
Well, you left the only one who ever loved you
And I'm back here on the wild side of life

I'm only a honky tonk angel
And I might have known I'd never make a wife
You walked out on the only one who ever loved you
And you left me here on the wild side of life