The Devil

I never said I was, I only let you think it
I blur the lines because I live my life between them

I wasn't always like this
Wasn't handsome with a heartbeat and a smile
I was perfect up until the day I died
I had branches, I had leaves, I had fruits and I had seeds
I had roots they left abandoned when they hacked me into pieces
Built a house out of my corpse, I'm in the walls; I am the doors
When I learn to speak I'll scream in every creak inside your floors

I never said I was, I only let you think it
I blurred the lines because I live my life between them

It took some practice but I taught myself to fight
I could shift and trip my captors when they walked the halls at night
I could rearrange the layout, jam the doors too tight to budge
Change the angle of the stairs enough to learn the taste of blood
I wasn't always like this but they chose to chop me down
And when I began to fight them back they burned me to the ground

I never said I was, I only let you think it

So I was soil, then a million writhing bugs
I was maggots in the graveyard, then the crows that ate them up
I spent 100 years invading every creature I could reach
Slowly poisoning the town 'till every inch had bits of me
I drove them mad, I made them sick, moving pieces into place
Contorting all my molecules in towards a single shape
And thus became the demon that you incorrectly name
I met the one you think I am, many years before you came
When I told him what I'd done he cut the horns right off his head
He bolted them to mine and said I'm twisted as it gets
So I don't know where he is now, The Devil that you know
But I've taken up the title, I'm the one you fuckin don't

I never said I was, I only let you think it
I blurred the lines because I live my life between them