Devil Song -

I want to meet the devil

I’d say, just be yourself

I don’t want a caricature or a replica

Not anyone else

I want to meet the devil

I’d say, don’t be vague

I don’t want to hear what people say you ought to be or any of your favorite

cliches

I want to meet the devil

I’ve got a feeling, we’re much the same

Parents who never understood us, said they loved us, then wished we would change

They say you’re on TV in anything that amuses me

They say you’re my neighbor’s wife, anyone who bleed without a knife

You’re there when I’m feeling good;

You’re the cause of me feeling bad

You’re in every mean conversations that people have

You’re in the dad who never got the Cadillac he wanted

You’re in the mom who was too panicked to have any fun

You’re in the kid who only learned how to kill a marriage and any foolish

notion of unconditional love

You’re in the part that believes you’re bad, so you’ve got to do something to

make you good

So you read the Bible on the train;

It’s clear cut and understood

And you might yell on the train about Jesus no matter if it’s rude

You’re in the faces of the passengers

Who’d kill you if they could

You’re in my coffee, my toothpaste

My hand sanitizer my underwear

My inappropriate inner thoughts

My embarrassing outer despair

The jealousy I try and hide that my friends can sense but are too nice to say

Every bit of smallness I know is dumb but feel anyway

Where is the devil?

Where else is the Devil?