[Verse 1]
Well, you wouldn't read my letters
If I wrote you
You urged 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

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 2]
Now the climate of all the good life
Oh, has 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, oh
No, no, no, no
Ah, ah, ah, no

[Verse 3]
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 or life, no
[Chorus]
Well, I'm just some trussed up 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
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