Doug MacLeod - Run With the Devil lyrics

Out back in Virginia Crazy man played guitar with a cross-eyed mind He said his music was like the wind It'd come to him and go again And I had a feeling the man he wasn't lying Bottle of liquor by his side A constant reminder of a man who dies Cause he had done is living for so darn long Pain of truth carved on his face A monument to a fallen grace But the words he said Boy they hit me strong CHORUS Only one thing you got to learn Only one thing you got to learn If you run with the devil, you gonna' burn Outside Birmingham Young boy want to be a man He met a woman Who scared his young bones home She watched him as he walked away Thinking on her younger days Thinking on how something right Could be so wrong Abused child barely sixteen Accustomed to the d**h of dreams She would hurt her father by making love to other men Blessed with a body she used like a tool She made all men paying fools But at night they say her crying would never end CHORUS Midnight on a Mississippi road A young boy with a tortured soul Called out to the night Would you set me free? Devil come by and shook his hand Said ‘Son, you gonna' be my man But from this night on your soul belongs to me People come from near and far To hear him sing and play guitar He was making money, making music, making women with style A Louisiana woman toting a knife Early one morning, she took his life Before he died he saw the devil smile CHORUS