Like a Thief

I was going on thirteen The summer I learned to keep a secret My cousin and me used to spend weekends At our auntie's in Florida She told me one night As she stood in the dark of the doorway "Every summer The angels They come for me One day They'll come for you too" And you can tell 'em to leave But they don't take "no" for an answer They come on like thieves And take you away in the night And they'll take you from me No They don't take "no" for an answer They come on like thieves And take you away in the night That winter I went back to Jersey Just me and my mom and my sisters We lit candles And I sang hymns While the little ones cried My auntie said she was an angel And the angels They had come for her I prayed in the stairwell for everyone who never made it home Above me A broken radio sang Like God was still on channel three I heard her voice whisper to me "You can tell 'em to leave But they don't take "no" for an answer They come on like thieves And take you away in the night And they'll take you from me No They don't take "no" for an answer They come on like thieves And take you away in the night" So I say what I mean And I mean what I say And I say what I mean And I mean what I say So I say what I mean And I mean what I say And I say what I mean And I mean what I say But you can tell 'em to leave But they don't take "no" for an answer They come on like thieves And take you away in the night And they'll take you from me No They don't take "no" for an answer They come on like thieves And take you away in the night