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The Devil We Know Lyrics by Gray Thomas

Atlantis

2020

Hey old friend, come and see
What your wisdom did to me
And how I like to spend my time
Keeping perfectly confined
The inside of my brain
Gold plated by the words you’d say
Day after day

You could fall into
The wrong kind of bear trap
Lose your brain
In a high-speed car crash
Smoke your lungs full of tar
And then you get cancer
And then you die

Well my kind
We don’t take that risk
'Cause the devil we know
Lives in the kitchen
And even he gets sick
Of all the bitching, but
Give him a break
He only wanted a soul

Maybe it’s better
On the other side
But here, my problems
Are all bite sized
No safety fences on the edge
Of a dream cloud
And every now and then
A kid falls down

And any time I want
Somebody new in my heart
My local demon is here
To remind me
That they’ll never find me
They’ll never find me here

You could drive into a cop
On his day off
Get in her bed
Then roll off of the loft
Down a bottle of Smirnoff
And then you lose your liver
And then you die

Well my kind
We don’t take that risk
'Cause the devil we know
Lives in the kitchen
And even he gets sick
Of all the bitching, but
Give him a break
He only wanted a soul

About “The Devil We Know” by Gray Thomas

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"The Devil We Know" appears on "Atlantis" in 2020.

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