Brother Ali - Devil's Arms lyrics

Said the devil got his arms around you
In the spot where the love ain't found you
It's so weak, but it's so dang powerful
I'd pull you out, but I don't know how to

My daddy on that medicine
I guess the demons are dancing
In his head again many women tried to breeze
Through and rescue him
What they all seem to see
Trying to get a thin screen
Between you and your agony
Strangling your anger 'til it
Settles at apathy
Have you seeing scenes that nobody
Should have to see
Shadowy screams of your own humanity
I feel the melancholy moan of a troubled soul
That somehow could never know
That it weren't alone
If he took a swig of gin
It would always grip him in
And he'd sink until he
Drowned in that undertow
Till the day he sat and
Scribbled out that rugged note
Said "everything I ever touched
It went up in smoke"
Apologized to his woman
Didn't know her heart
Doesn't love any less pure
Just because it's broke


You better tell them you love them
And make them believe you
Get between your people and that
Needle before they leave you
Tell them something when you look
Them in the eye
Before you can't say nothing but goodbye

Said the devil got his arms around you