[Hook x2]

Said the devil got his arms around you

In the spot where the love ain't found you

It's so weak, but it's so dang powerful

I'd pull you out, but I don't know how to

[Verse 1]

My daddy on that medicine

I guess the demons are dancing in his head again

Many women tried to breeze through and rescue him

What they all seem to see

Trying to get a thin screen between you and your agony

Strangling your anger 'til it settles at apathy

Have you seeing scenes that nobody should have to see

Shadowy screams of your own humanity

I feel the melancholy moan of a troubled soul

That somehow could never know that it weren't alone

If he took a swig of gin, it would always grip him in

And he'd sink until he drowned in that undertow

Till the day he sat and scribbled out that rugged note

Said "everything I ever touched, it went up in smoke."

Apologized to his woman, didn't know her heart

Doesn't love any less pure just because it's broke

[Hook]

[Verse 2]

You better tell them you love them and make them believe you

Get between your people and that needle before they leave you

Tell them something when you look them in the eye

Before you can't say nothing but goodbye

[Outro]

Said the devil got his arms around you