
Date of issue: 13.10.2016
Record label: Topshelf
Song language: English
Softer Science |
Three A.M.'s back again and the girls are fast asleep, tucked into their beds |
up above |
Down below, I have nowhere else left to go |
Six grey hairs and the fangs of another night playing uncle in this home |
What I fear—what I know—is that these girls will never know |
All their prayers on their knees won’t stop men just like me from preying, |
male gazing, drink-lacing—from turning coddled lives to living hell |
Oh, young American girls in young American rooms with young American dreams in |
young American wombs |
No matter how much you pray, no matter how much you hide, there’s a dorm, |
there’s a church full of American boys drunk on American thighs singing: |
If it’s the devil that’s in me, then it’s the devil I love |
Cross my heart and hope to die |
If it’s the devil in me, then it’s the devil I love |
One below, and nothing up above |
Three A.M.'s back again |
I’m dialing digits on my phone |
'Cause it’s true: even men just like me, raised properly, respectfully, |
have something hiding, something fighting to drag us all below |
It’s the devil I love |
Devil that I love |
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