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The Devil's Mouth

from Save Your Breath by Rowan Lewis

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You kept us all from staying with what we'd got
Not that much, but to us it was a lot.
Blood and bullets, bare hands and battered blades
One chance left for you to be unmade

In my hands, I hold the sharpened key
Life or pride, what's it gonna be?
Leave the world, as a man who never was
But a monster, clutching desperately to his claws

My last fight
Is real in my hands this time

The jaws of the devil's mouth are wide
And there's one tiny jewel of hope inside
Give him one last chance, and if he backs out
I'll cut it right out of his roaring mouth
Medicine giving me all I need
In a burst of colour and a burning bleed
And we both wanted to accomplish what we must
Falling down in the dust, it's the last of us.

In your eyes, I saw the living lost
Traitorous love, she'd been double crossed.
Betraying knight, we'd believed
But survival wasn't a unified path I see

My last fight
Is real in my hands this time

The jaws of the devil's mouth are wide
And there's one tiny jewel of hope inside
Give him one last chance, and if he backs out
I'll cut it right out of his roaring mouth
Medicine giving me all I need
In a burst of colour and a burning bleed
And we both wanted to accomplish what we must
Falling down in the dust, it's the last of us.

The jaws of the devil's mouth are wide
And there's one tiny jewel of hope inside
Give him one last chance, and if he backs out
I'll cut it right out of his roaring mouth
Medicine giving me all I need
In a burst of colour and a burning bleed
And we both wanted to accomplish what we must
Falling down in the dust, it's the last of us.

A circus mirror, what I could have been
Is a thankful avoidance, but a messy scene
I'm up to my elbows in scarlet prose
It's a story of freedom, you were right, I suppose

Medicine giving me all I need
In a burst of colour and a burning bleed
And we both wanted to accomplish what we must
Falling down in the dust, it's the last of us.

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from Save Your Breath, released February 1, 2016

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I'm a 20-something songwriter from the UK. These are the things I record in my living room.

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