The Devil Waits Outside 2 (Faster Cut)

Intro

Verse 1 There’s a knock on the door At a quarter past three A shape in the rain Standing there for me He’s got a preacher’s grin And a match in his hand Says, “Boy, I know the road Where broken men land”

Pre-Chorus I told myself I’d never bend, Told my mama I’d try But some doors open easy When your soul gets tired of light

Chorus The devil waits outside, With a smile like gasoline He don’t need to break the lock, He knows what’s left of me The devil waits outside, And I know why he came Heaven may have lost my voice, But hell remembers my name

Verse 2 I kept a Bible by the bed, And a pistol by the flame One was full of empty words, One was full of names There’s a picture on the floor Of the man I used to be I stepped around him every night, Till he stopped looking like me

Pre-Chorus Peace don’t come to men like me, It just circles like a crow And every time I lock the door, I hear him down below

Chorus The devil waits outside, With a smile like gasoline He don’t need to break the lock, He knows what’s left of me The devil waits outside, And I know why he came Heaven may have lost my voice, But hell remembers my name Hell remembers, Hell remembers, Hell remembers my name

Bridge I saw his shadow through the curtain, But it looked too much like mine Same old coat, same crooked shoulders, Same dead hunger in the eyes The devil waits outside, With a smile like gasoline He don’t need to break the lock, He knows what’s left of me The devil waits outside, But he don’t call me slave He just says, “Welcome home, son, You were never meant to be saved” The devil waits outside, And I know why he came Heaven may have lost my voice, But hell remembers my name

Outro I thought he came to take me. But he only came to show me.

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