Devil By The Window - TXT | English

It's a song about taking your first step It's a song about closing your eyes and reliving the happy moments It's a song about embracing optimism in the face of uncertainty It's a song about moving on from a crushing heartbreak It's a song about smiling to the memories of your mother singing you lullabies It's a song about wishing the time could freeze just when everything felt so perfect It's a song about trying to adjust and live with the ever-changing rhythm called life It's a song about falling down and picking yourself up Dusting yourself off and starting again It's a song about making mistakes and accepting them It's a song about the last goodbye keeping you up at night the one That you could never say It's a song about appreciating all that you have got no matter how little it might be It's a song about exploring the unexplored It's a song about humming the unwritten melody It's a song about making peace with yourself It's a song about finding the light that shines within you It's a song about you believing in yourself

I'm leaving Virginia Back to where I belong I can't remember The last time I gone There's blue skies and women And liquor so strong Angels and Devils To carry me on CHORUS: So come closer Angeline We'll go in the mornin' We'll be home tonight Old worn out feelings And yesterday's news Just give me something That I can use My boots are forgiven The valley's a lie And all these words talking Mean nothing tonight CHORUS: So come closer Angeline We'll go in the mornin' We'll be home tonight I left my pillar Out on the road It's a desolate place But you've been there before There's a town by the river It's where I was born And I died on a hillside All tattered and torn CHORUS: So come closer Angeline We'll go in the mornin' We'll be home tonight So come closer Angeline We'll go in the mornin' We'll be home tonight

I've done a lot of laughing And a little bit of crying I've been a lot of places And I've got a mess of friends I got married to a bottle It gave me bad loving, yeah If I could re-live all my days Changing my ways I'd not touch' a drop again By the devil I was tempted And many jugs I've emptied I felt so rejected I didn't wanna go away Half my life has been awasted By the booze I've tasted But the demon I have faced it And sent him on his way I hope I'll be forgiven For all my bad livin' I had to make some changes Or he'd have got me in the end Now I have a pretty woman She gives me good lovin', yeah I can 't re-live all my days In a different way But I won't go astray again By the devil I was tempted And many jugs I've emptied I felt so rejected I didn't wanna go away Half my life has been awasted By the booze I've tasted But the demon I have faced it And sent him on his way -Repeat chorus -Repeat chorus and fade out.

My daddy played poker in the woods, they say Back in his younger days Prohibition was the talk, but the rich folks walked To the woods where my daddy stayed Jugs and jars from shiners These old boys here, they ain't miners They came from The Twenty Niners It didn't take a hole in the ground to put the bottom in their face Back in the 30's when the dust bowl dried And the woods of Alabama didn't see no light My daddy played poker by a hard wood fire Squeezing all his luck from a hot copper wire Scrap like a wildcat fights 'til the end Trap a wildcat and take his skin Deal from the bottom, put the ace in the hole One hand on the jug, but you never do know Son come running You better come quick This rotgut moonshine is making me sick Your mama called the law And they're gonna take me away Down so far even the devil won't stay Where I call to the Lord with all my soul I can hear him rattling the chains on the door He couldn't get in, I could see he tried Through the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light Daddy, tell me another story Tell me 'bout the lows and the highs Tell me how to tell the difference 'tween What they tell me is the truth or a lie Tell me why the ones who have so much Make the ones who don't go mad? With the same skin stretched over their white bones And the same jug in their hand My daddy played poker on a stump in the woods Back when the world was gray Before black and white went and chose upsides And gave a little bit of both their way The only blood that's any cleaner Is the blood that's blue or greener Without either you just get meaner And the blood you gave, gives you away Son, come running You better come quick This rotgut moonshine is making me sick Your mama called the law And they're gonna take me away Down so far even the devil won't stay Where I call to the Lord with all my soul I can hear him rattling the chains on the door He couldn't get in, I could see he tried Through the shadows of the cage around the 40 watt light