《The Devil You Know》歌词

歌曲： The Devil You Know

所属专辑：The Devil You Know

歌手： Todd Snider

时长： 04:54

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The Devil You Know - Todd Snider[00:00:00]

Helicopters over the house again[00:00:10]

We got the projects two or three blocks from here[00:00:12]

They pull the kids over for driving while african[00:00:15]

And the ones with the warrants always run in fear[00:00:17]

So i sit here waiting for the coast to clear[00:00:20]

Wishing once again i had a gun around here[00:00:23]

Turn on the news and what do i hear[00:00:26]

Some kid shot the bank up on gallatin road[00:00:28]

Ran away from the cops while he was trying to reload[00:00:31]

He beat them up to eastland street on feet[00:00:34]

Now he's probably reloaded and running down my street[00:00:37]

Better turn the alarm on and lock myself in[00:00:40]

Helicopters over the house again[00:00:42]

Sometimes you rise above it[00:00:45]

Sometimes you sneak below[00:00:51]

Somewhere in between believing in heaven[00:00:57]

And facing the devil you know[00:01:03]

Poor kid probably never had a chance to give a f**k[00:01:17]

Wouldn't know good luck from a debutant[00:01:20]

He's gotta find a way to be steve mcnair or young buck[00:01:22]

Or he's just tough luck looking for a prison to haunt[00:01:25]

And you can f**k getting any kind of job you want[00:01:28]

Unless you really want to work in a fast food restaraunt[00:01:31]

And who wants to do that do you want to do that [00:01:33]

I wouldn't trade that for my crooked hat[00:01:37]

Or my gang or my gun or my waist full of pagers[00:01:39]

For a job deep frying sh*t for richer teen agers[00:01:42]

If that's where it's at and no one's gonna help[00:01:45]

How you gonna blame a man for helping himself[00:01:48]

There's a war going on that the poor can't win[00:01:50]

Helicopters over the house again[00:01:53]

Sometimes you rise above it[00:01:56]

Sometimes you sneak below[00:02:01]

Somewhere in between believing in heaven[00:02:07]

And facing the devil you know[00:02:13]

Black and white cops shining lights in the bushes[00:02:51]

Can't see how this kid is gonna get very far[00:02:53]

Unless he finds a way to make it back over to barry street[00:02:55]

And he can't do that unless he steals a car[00:02:58]

Man the way things are they just don't seem right[00:03:01]

All the white people talking 'bout the hope and the light[00:03:04]

There ain't no hope in sam levy just guns and drugs[00:03:07]

We ain't building bridges we're just training thugs[00:03:09]

Then i hear a terrifying kick at my back door[00:03:13]

And in comes this kid i say hey i've seen this kid before[00:03:15]

I see him all the time at that bar on woodland street[00:03:18]

Now he's bleeding in my kitchen tracking mud off his feet[00:03:21]

And he's looking at me like i'll either help him or die[00:03:24]

Until he sees in my eyes that i'm on his side[00:03:27]

I hand him my keys i say you better move fast[00:03:29]

There's a J in the ashtray and plenty of gas[00:03:32]

He throws me the cash and says i'll be back for this[00:03:35]

I say yeah well don't be surprised if theres' a little bit of it missing[00:03:38]

His gold teeth glistened with a big old grin[00:03:43]

He said we'll talk about that when i see you again[00:03:46]

He shook my hand i shook his back[00:03:49]

I felt like i was about to have a heart attack[00:03:51]

Until he finally drove away i thought goddamn[00:03:53]

Helicopters over the house again[00:03:54]

Sometimes you rise above it[00:03:57]

Sometimes you sneak below[00:04:03]

Somewhere in between believing in heaven[00:04:08]

And facing the devil you know[00:04:14]