The Devil Within

A lot of this song in my own language I see can it speaking about a split personality within yourself.

-I will keep quite. You won't even know I'm here. You won't suspect a thing. You won't see me in the mirror. But I crept into your heart. You can't make me disappear.-

The above I feel talks about when the split begins, the other is there, but you obviously cannot see them. Thus blackouts begins and it starts to take form, you cannot really do anything because you are not sure of what is happening.

-I made myself at home. In the cobwebs and the lies. I'm learning all your tricks. I can hurt you from inside. I made myself a promise. You would never see me cry.-

This top statement I feel brings the fact that this split can see everything about you now. Knowing how to use things against you because of this. The first part representing this is something that won't just "go away" and it will be there.

Throughout the song there are a ton of hints for this to be a meaning. When you suffer from DID, you tend to go through everyday feeling like something bad is going to happen, unsure of how the other(s) will react. And it slowly begins to take effect on your own mind, and it weighs heavy. The Devil Within, is how you will look at it for a long time.

I truly believe this song is a dedication or rather an interpretation of those who are just sadist , evil, yet suffer from some type of mental illness, it is almost like a story of those who are to crazy to and feel like someone has betrayed them so they do what they only see as the right thing there way.... stalking, decieve, destroy ,.... murder. Another ... talks about someone who is obsessed and is blinded by love to the point that the will do anything to keep there companion by their side and will destroy

Another theory... someone who is planning a sweet revenge on someone.

Its like, a sadist is thinking. Like me, i have DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) and im sadist (one who likes to hurt eachother and punish them for things, they didnt do.). So do I think. I like this song, thinking singing this to my victim who is siting in front of me laying on a table and getting lost. I kill his mind and hes done in his brain. And then I'm killing him slowly...

I believe this song is about a persons conscience. Someone did something they deep down didn't believe they should have and their conscience over it starts to eat at them from the inside.

IMO The devil within refers to the repressed feelings that we think are under control but are always back building. This can be many issues; depression, anger, eating disorders, mental disorders etc inner struggle

This song can talk about a lot of mental issues, that tend to hide themselves. The song being focused on the person, and not on "victims", I'm not sure about the sadist interpretation. It doesn't feel like someone trying to slowly manipulate and hurt someone else, but instead of a part of the mind slowly taking control. If you link it with something like depression, it seems to fit relatively well.

Depression in its chronic form usually comes slowly, in a way that makes it hard if not impossible to detect. It takes its place in the "dark corners" of the mind, insecurities, and such, which fit "the cobwebs and the lies".

While depression can be seen as an ennemy to fight, it usually ends up in self-harm, people will hurt themselves hoping that it will reduce the depressive thoughts, even momentarily. Thus the "you would never see me cry till I make you".

A lot of other verses can also follow this logic. "When you think you're all alone" -> Depression grows stronger when people are alone "I'm the poison in your bones" -> Depression tends to have a paralysing effect, it prevents people from doing anything, even physically "My love is your disease" -> Depression tends to be "comforting", it makes people think that being depressed is what should be, and won't want to change it "I won't let it set you free" -> Same as before, depressed people think that they don't deserve to be "cured", because it is what depressive thoughts tell them "I'm underneath your skin" -> Depression will also hide itself from the outside. Depressed people will try to look happy, because they don't feel like they "deserve" to be really depressed. So while they act as usual, they feel depression creeping under their looks, unseen but far from powerless.

I believe these lyrics are of an addiction speaking to the addict. The words are cleverly open to interpretation and could apply to many forms of mental states. The cruelty threatened by the speaker would fit right in to how addiction tears a person down.

Lines like; My love is your disease, I won't let it set you free

Clever words I would have loved to have thought of when I was in rehab. Most people in rehab write about walking a long road or such. This is much deeper and darker as addiction actually is, especially if one can not shake it.

I interpret this song as being about a victim of sexual assault, and the desire that the rapist carries a guilt, that festers in them. Either that or the concept of a dark obsession, loving someone that you want to control because they aren't what you thought they were.

In my opinion this song is about a woman in relationship, who is obsessed with her partner. They are relatively happy together but the girl sees that the man doesn't love her as much as she does. She keeps getting hurt over small things but doesn't show it, instead she develops obsession about keeping him closer to make him hurt. The man unaware of real state of things likes her more and more...

It may be over overinterpretation but text is suggesting that the victim is close to the persona.

I think this song is about pure revenge and to act as a snake through there veins a "disease" and I also think it shows a sign of naivety or cockiness Like there saying "Come at me" and finally they have been put through mind repulsive and hellish abuse