Devil Looks Like Me

i seen the devil… and the devil looks like me, every time I hit the mirror it’s a face I can’t unsee. Mind gone cloudy, yeah my soul feel weak, I been fighting all these demons, they don’t ever let me sleep. Eyes wide open but it’s dark as the night, even in the daylight I can’t find no light. This hell that I’m in? yeah I built it myself, trapped in my head, I’m at war with myself. I been bobbing, I been weaving, I been bleeding from the blows, life keep swinging hard punches, I just roll with the lows. Praying “God can you hear me?” but it echo back void, like I’m screaming in a canyon that’s already destroyed. (Chorus – melodic / emotional) I’m hanging by a thread, but I won’t let go, even when I’m slipping down that same old road. Yeah I lost my way, yeah I lost control, but I’m still fighting for a piece of my soul. If I fall down, I get back up again, even if I gotta crawl through the pain I’m in. I ain’t perfect, yeah I got my sins… but I’m still here, so I fight to the end. (Verse 2) Truth hurts, yeah I carry it deep, every scar got a story I don’t ever speak. I been searching for myself but I’m fading away, keep telling myself “it’ll be better one day.” But today ain’t that day, I’m still stuck in place, spinning tires in the mud, trying to win this race. Man the mirror don’t lie, I’m a shell of a man, battered, bruised, barely holding my stand. Drinking from the gutter, I don’t trust no soul, everybody got an angle, everybody got a role. But I keep pushing forward, I ain’t quitting the fight, even when I’m wrong, I’m just trying to get right. (Bridge – stripped down, almost spoken/sung) I fell victim to the voice in my head… every word that it said left me wishing I was dead. Couldn’t look at myself, I was full of regret, every reflection felt like a threat. I was losing my faith, I was losing my grip, watching everything I love just slowly slip. Family… marriage… all gone in the smoke, all I had left was the pain and the hope… (Final Chorus – bigger / more powerful) I’m hanging by a thread, but I won’t let go, even when I’m walking down a broken road. Yeah I paid the price, yeah I felt that cost, I done lost damn near everything I lost. But if there’s breath in my lungs, I ain’t giving in, even if I gotta fight through the hell I’m in. Yeah I been down, yeah I been that low… but I ain’t done yet—I just thought you should know.