The Devil's Tongue

Envy on the Coast

Flesh on flesh
Running through red lights
Maybe I'm okay
It's just my appetite
Wash your mouth
Is what they'll say to me
Don't keep me in your prayers
'Cause I am not a patient here

(and you scare the sin right out of me)
Keep it, keep it
Keep it together
Keep it, keep it
Keep it together, kid
The bad feels good to me
Good to me

Bite my tongue
So I can feel again
Skin me in my sleep
Scream until I make it end
Burn like hell
Is what they'll say to me
Don't you waste those prayers
'Cause I am not a patient here

(and you scare the sin right out of me)
Keep it, keep it
Keep it together
Keep it, keep it
Keep it together, kid
The bad feels good to me
Keep it, keep it
Keep it together
Keep it, keep it
Keep it together, kid

The bad feels, feels good to me
And fuck the sin right out of me

Keep it, keep it
Keep it together
Keep it, keep it
Keep it together, kid
The bad feels good to me
Keep it, keep it
Keep it together
Keep it, keep it
Keep it together, kid


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    I think this song is about the writer's agnostic but obsessive views on religion. he scoffs cathlocism and the concept of sin and the devil, yet he's sort of haunted and affected by it anyway. "keep it together, kid"... is the sort of guilt thats still kind of there and bothering him, but he still lives his life how he wants, having sex and doing w/e, because "the bad feels good to me".

    ludoloveon March 26, 2010   Link

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