The Devil You Know lyrics

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