Devil, Devil (Prelude: Princess Of Darkness)

This town, she is a temptress
 A siren with gold eyes, she'll cut you with her kindness
 She will lead you with her lies
 She's been called a glistening devil
 She's good at keeping score
 If you make it she's your savior, if you don't she's a whore
 The roads to and from her heart are littered with grave souls
 They gave all of their all and all they got in return is empty holes
 Sure we've all heard about Shell, and Chris, Willy, and Bobby Bares
 She'd smiled on Johnny's the Merles any music-wrote billionaires
 Like a beacon she goes seeking seed, her loins so fertile
 To a free man she's a prison, to a caged one she's a fire
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 She's the reason there's a Sunday morning coming down
 I saw the light, a boy named Sue, he stopped loving her today
 The pill and 16th avenue
 The rhyming, oh she's a diamond the brown eyed mickey
 She was Roy acuffs castle and elvis parsley's broken dream
 It's not all bad it's not all dark it's not all gloom and crass
 But to mine gold in this silver mine it does take balls of brass
 For she's seem 'em come and seen 'em go
 And came herself a time or two
 No matter how satisfied her scream sounds, she always wants someone new
 The next him or her or them or all, to be a star in this lady's town
 You can fuck off or you can fight
 You see, it all comes down to money
 Not romantic art of days gone past, if you forget that rule
 You can bet your backside she will bury it in your ass
 A tramp, a slut, a bitch, a mutt, a thousand pawn shop guitars
 A nasty little needle to a vein that feeds a singers heart
 She lurks in friendly shadows; but she's a junky with a limb
 The agents are her bookie and the labels are her pen
 I'll tell you a well-known secret of a place known far and wide
 The devil walks among us folks and Nashville is his bride
 All the chaos he has caused, and done
 His greatest tribute to every guitar-totin' dreamer
 The devil don't exist but me, I shook his hand
 And I know that he is real
 So devil, you can go screw yourself, and then go straight the hell
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 Devil, devil, I feel you preying on my mind
 I got nine things going wrong right now
 And her leaving makes a dime
 I'm mad as hell, and drunk, and well
 Tonight, I guess we'll see
 If devil, devil, you're bad enough to lock horns with me
 Level, level, in search of solid ground
 This swinging, swaying, side to side, is tossing me around
 I got a hanker for an anchor to steady up my bow
 Level, level, tie this rebel down
 Crazy, crazy, calling out my name
 I got one foot on the platform and the other's on a train
 Save me, save me, I know what's in store
 Crazy, crazy hell, I've been there before
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 Danger, danger, the way you're looking there at me
 Be careful what you wish for, you might get what you don't need
 I'm a brush fire on a drought land in a Santa Ana breeze
 Danger, danger, don't you play around with me
 Crazy, crazy, calling out my name
 I got one foot on the platform and the other's on a train
 Save me, save me, I know what's in store
 Crazy, crazy hell, I've been there before
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 Angel, angel, heavenly body in holy jeans
 On second thought, get over here and wrap me in your wings
 Throw caution to the wind and honey, give me what I need
 Angel, angel, love this devil, devil, out of me
 Devil, devil, devil
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 Uh-uh-uh-uh, devil, devil
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 Uh-uh-uh-uh, devil, devil
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