[Intro – soft, hollow echo / distant thunder and wire hum]
There’s a rope in the corner,
a mirror that won’t lie.
The walls whisper sins
I’ve buried under my eyes.
The silence hums like static,
every breath feels fake—
and the devil in my chest
just won’t break.
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[Verse 1 – low, fragile tone]
I’ve walked through rooms that reek of ghosts,
where my shadow clings the most.
Every prayer I tried to speak
just came out cracked and weak.
The floor remembers every fall,
the glass remembers it all.
I drew my pain in shades of red—
it smiled back and called me dead.
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[Pre-Chorus – rising tension, whispered confession]
I see him there, behind my eyes,
a face that feeds when something dies.
He says he’s me, I say he’s wrong—
but I’ve heard his voice too long.
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[Chorus – layered, distorted, echoing through static]
The devil cries in me,
and I don’t know why I let him stay.
Every heartbeat bleeds,
every thought decays.
The devil cries in me,
and I’m too weak to walk away.
He whispers softly when I pray…
and I let him stay.
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[Verse 2 – darker, heavier instrumentation]
The rope swings slow in my head,
counting down the words I’ve said.
The light above me hums too loud,
I fade beneath its weight somehow.
My skin’s a map of quiet wars,
my veins are haunted corridors.
If pain’s a language, I’m fluent now—
but I don’t remember how.
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[Bridge – whispered, broken delivery]
I feel the ground start pulling in,
a gravity made out of sin.
I tried to run, but there’s no end—
the devil doesn’t lose, he bends.
He bends me back till I can’t see,
and laughs like thunder inside me.
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[Chorus 2 – screamed through distortion, fading into reverb]
The devil cries in me,
and I don’t know why I let him stay.
Every heartbeat bleeds,
every thought decays.
The devil cries in me,
I hear him every day.
He feeds on what I throw away—
and I still let him stay.
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[Final Verse – dying whisper, fading instrumentation]
I’m fading out like smoke in glass,
a ghost inside my own collapse.
The air tastes sharp, the lights turn low,
and I finally see the undertow.
He reaches out, I take his hand,
I understand what I am.
No peace, no dawn, no saving grace—
just a shadow taking my place.
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[Outro – slow piano, faint echo of the main chorus line]
The devil cries in me…
and I don’t know why…
I let him stay.
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