The Devil's Crayon Lyrics

Lyric discussion by mellow 

Cover art for The Devil's Crayon lyrics by Wild Beasts

Reading these lyrics, I picture a dude, a gay-dude, in an art class doing one of those nude model sketches of a not-gay-dude, and he totally has a hard-on for the model. In this case, "devil" is a reference to desire, lust, the unequivocal exhalation of physical longing. The gay-dude goes through some wishy-washy philosophical ponderings, saying everyone knows the devil (lust, longing, desire). But, in this case, the model is straight, so the gay-dude, the "romancer", realizes he's not getting any: the straight-dude says "her" name in a way that the gay-dude wants ("her" just being a reference to women). Because of the inevitable rejection, the gay-dude gets pissed: The straight-dude's in league with the devil---"your arm drapped around [the devil's shoulder] ten times over"---"your" referring to the object of the gay-dude's affection. The gay-dude, knowing his love/lust is unrequited, that his longing will end in rejection, reasons that the straight-dude deserves to have some "loads" thrown on him. Take that explicitly.

The END.