The Devil I Know

Three in the morning came without a warning

Wound up with some old buccaneers

Tellin' lies about the time I won the Nobel Prize

Guess who bought all the beers

Well, you'd think I'd have tamed my old dragons by now

I've always tried to be a good scout

But every now and then they come swoopin' in

Saying, "Bubba, it's time to go out"

Now it's fun to wake up in a strange chateau

After racing 'round Paris in a Deux Chevaux

My wingman's crashing but I'm not flying solo

'Cause he traded places with the devil I know

Devil I know, devil I know

Well, life can be confusing but things need excusin'

To separate the turns from the twists

If I had a Richter scale for spouting forked tales

We'd all be high on that shit list

Well, the hitch to living hard is when you drop your guard

And wind up in a headline or a cell

Then compromise, or worse, apologize

Welcome to the world of sinkin' spells

Messing with my mind was fun at the time

Tossing to and fro in a tricky undertow

Deviants and derelicts, lurking high and low

Ridin' shotgun with the devil I know

Devil I know, devil I know

Let's go ridin', devil

There were times, there were places

We played near and far

From the old Anchor Inn to the Suez Canal bar

From the Kraken to Manhattan

Le Select to Old Saigon

Mojitos in Havana

Timbuktu 'til dawn

Three in the mornin', feral cats are yawnin'

Full moon sinking in the bay

Spoonbills in flight, oh, what a sight

As I sip on my café au lait

Well, the birds got me thinkin' 'bout going day drinkin'

A hall pass to be the old me

Don't need hops and barley to throw a little party

Señorita, una mas iced tea

Hell, it's fun to go fishing on a new slack tide

Wake up living life on the flip side

Them dragons ain't gone, but they're fading like an old tattoo

Lots of mystery in the history of the devils I knew

Devils I knew, devils I knew