The Devil You Know-Todd Snider

[ti:The Devil You Know] [ar:Todd Snider] [al:The Devil You Know] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Devil You Know - Todd Snider [00:10.00]Helicopters over the house again [00:12.37]We got the projects two or three blocks from here [00:15.11]They pull the kids over for driving while african [00:17.73]And the ones with the warrants always run in fear [00:20.60]So i sit here waiting for the coast to clear [00:23.47]Wishing once again i had a gun around here [00:26.28]Turn on the news and what do i hear [00:28.84]Some kid shot the bank up on gallatin road [00:31.77]Ran away from the cops while he was trying to reload [00:34.58]He beat them up to eastland street on feet [00:37.08]Now he's probably reloaded and running down my street [00:40.07]Better turn the alarm on and lock myself in [00:42.94]Helicopters over the house again [00:45.63]Sometimes you rise above it [00:49.29] [00:51.42]Sometimes you sneak below [00:57.09]Somewhere in between believing in heaven [01:03.27]And facing the devil you know [01:17.43]Poor kid probably never had a chance to give a f**k [01:20.06]Wouldn't know good luck from a debutant [01:22.79]He's gotta find a way to be steve mcnair or young buck [01:25.60]Or he's just tough luck looking for a prison to haunt [01:28.35]And you can f**k getting any kind of job you want [01:31.09]Unless you really want to work in a fast food restaraunt [01:33.96]And who wants to do that do you want to do that [01:37.02]I wouldn't trade that for my crooked hat [01:39.33]Or my gang or my gun or my waist full of pagers [01:42.39]For a job deep frying sh*t for richer teen agers [01:45.13]If that's where it's at and no one's gonna help [01:48.07]How you gonna blame a man for helping himself [01:50.82]There's a war going on that the poor can't win [01:53.56]Helicopters over the house again [01:56.37]Sometimes you rise above it [02:01.95]Sometimes you sneak below [02:07.63]Somewhere in between believing in heaven [02:13.56]And facing the devil you know [02:21.92] [02:51.06]Black and white cops shining lights in the bushes [02:53.31]Can't see how this kid is gonna get very far [02:55.93]Unless he finds a way to make it back over to barry street [02:58.98]And he can't do that unless he steals a car [03:01.48]Man the way things are they just don't seem right [03:04.23]All the white people talking 'bout the hope and the light [03:07.09]There ain't no hope in sam levy just guns and drugs [03:09.84]We ain't building bridges we're just training thugs [03:13.02]Then i hear a terrifying kick at my back door [03:15.83]And in comes this kid i say hey i've seen this kid before [03:18.76]I see him all the time at that bar on woodland street [03:21.38]Now he's bleeding in my kitchen tracking mud off his feet [03:24.13]And he's looking at me like i'll either help him or die [03:27.00]Until he sees in my eyes that i'm on his side [03:29.68]I hand him my keys i say you better move fast [03:32.49]There's a J in the ashtray and plenty of gas [03:35.18]He throws me the cash and says i'll be back for this [03:38.42]I say yeah well don't be surprised if theres' a little bit of it missing [03:43.54]His gold teeth glistened with a big old grin [03:46.72]He said we'll talk about that when i see you again [03:49.22]He shook my hand i shook his back [03:51.15]I felt like i was about to have a heart attack [03:53.46]Until he finally drove away i thought goddamn [03:54.83]Helicopters over the house again [03:57.89]Sometimes you rise above it [04:03.32]Sometimes you sneak below [04:08.93]Somewhere in between believing in heaven [04:14.93]And facing the devil you know