The Devil You Know

Spit venom at me my bleak enemy The Devil you know Consistently cold, no love to withhold The Devil you know Salt in my wounds, but I don't resent This cleansing contempt As I fake a desperate bliss That alchemy cannot fix This shameless disdain keeps both of us sane The Devil you know An honest untruth we both fail to prove The Devil you know A future doomed as a malcontent In loveless lament So I wake to infinite lists Of agonies that persist Words insincere, gracelessly rehearsed Keeping us here, this abyss deserved Oh, the Devil's closer than we admit We turn a blind eye to make someone fit Spit venom at me, a brief remedy The Devil you know This shameless disdain profoundly profane The Devil you know In threadbare rooms so little is left That we represent And we face a festering kiss That apathy can't dismiss A poison we take to lessen the ache The Devil you know So freely enslaved from cradle to grave The Devil you know The Devil you know