Escalator Boys Words by Zion Valencic © Feb 2024 TTTO The Elevator, Man by Joe FicklinCHORUS D G Crowley was low when he said “hi” D A Hi to a guardian angel of the heavenly sky D G He can’t stay long—they’re reporting later A D Y’know he’s got to head to hell on an escalator. G D He’s made it the garden, having lost his father’s pardon, G D When everything went down like a lead balloon. G D The angel gave his sword away, always scared to disobey, A D Gives protection from the rains, the rains of the afternoon. CHORUS D G Crowley was low when he said “hi” D A Hi to a guardian angel of the heavenly sky D G He can’t stay long—they’re reporting later A D Y’know he’s got to head to hell on an escalator. Next there was the giant flood, when God realized man was a dud, And then they met again in a land called Ur. Aziraphale saw Crowley’s heart, and together with his counterpart, The deaths of Job’s three children, three children they deferred. CHORUS D G Crowley was low when he said “hi” D A Hi to a guardian angel of the heavenly sky D G He can’t stay long—they’re reporting later A D Y’know he’s got to head to hell on an escalator. Then they stood beneath the cross, honestly at quite a loss At what would make the humans so darn mad. “Just be kind,” is what he said to make him so very dead, As Crowley starts to wonder, wonder if good is really bad. CHORUS D G Crowley was low when he said “hi” D A Hi to a guardian angel of the heavenly sky D G He can’t stay long—they’re reporting later A D Y’know he’s got to head to hell on an escalator. Crowley saved Aziraphale, when the guillotine blades fell, While Hamlet acted an arrangement was arranged. They would not act against another, and sometimes do work for the other And so their love began to grow, to grow as the ages changed. CHORUS D G Crowley was low when he said “hi” D A Hi to a guardian angel of the heavenly sky D G He can’t stay long—they’re reporting later A D Y’know he’s got to head to hell on an escalator. So when the Anti-christ was born, and armies marched to the war horn They swore they’d fight to keep the world alive. Their sides they did oppose you see, fighting against god’s decree, So now they’re swapping bodies, swapping bodies to survive. FINAL CHORUS: D G Crowley went high, the angel went low, D A Went to face the demon trial down below. D G They won’t stay long — they’ll be free later, A D Free of both sides and both those of escalators. A D And they’ll never again have to ride those escalators.