Angels In The Details

I used to comb through the fine print

Triple-checking immortality

Trying to grease my demons through them gates

On a technicality

Now most days I just board this train

Waiting for it to derail

Some days I wish I never been born

Not to go into detail

But the angel's in the details

Jesus can we call a truce

Cause the devil's in the double helix

You can't shake that dog a'loose

You can't shake that dog a'loose

Once I was a soft boy

Assassinated by a blade of grass

But you gotta be tougher than I was

If you want to make that last

Now I'm all rawhide and fortified

I strike fast and first

Sometime someone sees inside

It makes it that much worse

They see the angels in the details

Jesus can we call a truce

For the devil's in the double helix

You can't shake that dog a'loose

You can't shake that dog a'loose

So I guess bury me with this flat top guitar

I go to hell I won't be there alone

Just let me burn with this old gold-strung rosewood

In a halo of herringbone

With these angels in the details

Jesus calling off our truce

Cause the devil's in the double helix

I couldn't shake that dog a'loose

O' the angels in the details

They come down gnaw at the noose

But the devil's in the double helix

You can't shake that dog a'loose

Y'all can't shake that dog a'loose

I couldn't shake that dog a'loose