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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Amazing Devil
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Joey Batey
Composer
Madeleine Hyland
Lyrics
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Tom Addison
Producer
Joey Batey
Producer
Madeleine Hyland
Producer
Cicely Balston
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
There's a second wind coming
As we lie here in our bed
It rattles the bones of our fathers
Carries whispers from the dead
[Verse 2]
And you, you light a candle
And I make sure the bairns are fed
[Verse 3]
You turn the telly on
To drown out your fear
You make the bed up silent on the floor
So no one will hear us
You try so loud to love me
I cannot seem to hear
[Verse 4]
'Cause you, you touch
My skin peels off like paint
But beneath all of our panting
There's this noise I cannot shake
[Verse 5]
('Cause you, you touch my pain)
(All our panting shame)
[Verse 6]
Can't you hear that scratching?
There's something at the door
[Verse 7]
But the wind has picked us up now
We're hanging in the air
And as you grip me like an animal
That you're about to spear
[Verse 8]
"Be good to me," I whisper, and you say "what"
And I say, "nothing dear"
[Verse 9]
Can't you hear it?
It can hear you
It wants me to
[Verse 10]
(Throw the plate at the wall)
[Verse 11]
I'm the paper cut that kills you
I'm the priest that you ignored
I'm the touch you crave, I'm the plans that you made
But fuck all your plans, I'm bored
[Verse 12]
And can't you hear that scratching?
I ask your eyes
[Verse 13]
I've got knuckle burn from typing all these lines into your chest
And as the belt from your buckle is tightening
I make shipwrecks out of my dress
And the door below, it splinters
And the creature creeps inside
[Verse 14]
And we fall into each other
The scratching grows so loud
Because that unwanted animal
Wants nothing more than to get out
And I scream
[Verse 15]
"What's the time Mr. Wolf?"
But you, you're blind, you bleat, you bear your claws
[Verse 16]
And you rip my ribcage open
And devour what's truly yours
And our screaming joins in unison
I cry out to the lord
[Verse 17]
'Cause if we join our hands in prayer enough
To God I imagine it all, starts to sound like applause
[Verse 18]
Can't you hear it?
It can hear you
It wants me to
[Verse 19]
And those plates they smash like waves
(Place your hand in mine)
And on the wind it howls
(How long can this last?)
'Cause that second wind is coming love, it's coming for all we own
And on the creature scratches, it doesn't know how to get out (Let me out)
And you, you follow philosophies
But me, I laugh, I choke
"Well hello, my hollow Holofernes"
I wink but you don't get the joke
"Hold the hand of the god-child," they said
As he falls from the sky
Be good to me I beg of him
Be good to me I beg of him
Be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good, be good
And he replies
[Verse 20]
"No no, not I"
Written by: Joey Batey, Madeleine Hyland