They told me the devil comes dressed in temptation…

But nobody tells you—

sometimes he looks exactly like you.

I been fighting with myself since I was just a kid

Bottle full of anger, every feeling got hid

Learned pain don’t disappear, it just changes shape

Turns into addictions and the lies that you create

Every night I hear voices in the back of my brain

Saying “you’ll never heal, you’ll always stay this way”

So I laugh in public while I die in private

Smile for the world while my soul stays violent

I got scars on my heart that nobody can trace

Spent years feeling lost in the mirror of my face

Started chasing bad habits just to feel alive

But the highs disappear and the lows survive

I know this road don’t lead to heaven

But I keep moving anyway

Every sin feels like a safe place

When you hate yourself enough to stay

I been dancing with the devil

Two-step in the flames

Laughing while he whispers every failure and mistake

He got poison in his hands, but I still hold on tight

‘Cause loneliness is worse than losing every fight

I been dancing with the devil

Heart black, soul cold

Trying to fill a void that just keeps getting old

And every time I swear that tonight’s the last time—

I hear the music…

And fall right back in line

Started drinking every night just to quiet thoughts

Started smoking just to feel like my mind could stop

Everybody thinks I’m strong ‘cause I never break down

But pressure makes diamonds—or bodies in the ground

See, pain changes people into things they hate

Turns love into anger and trust into rage

Now I push everybody the hell away from me

Then get mad when they finally decide to leave

I got trauma in my bloodstream, fear in my chest

Every day feels like a war I ain’t winning yet

And the devil keeps smiling every time I relapse

Like he knows I’m too broken to fight back

Sometimes I wonder if God still watches me

‘Cause every road I take ends in hypocrisy

I say I’m healing, but I’m bleeding through the seams

Smiling for the world while I’m drowning underneath

I got demons in my chest doing laps around my soul

Every scar became a place that I don’t let people go

And the devil keeps talking when the room gets quiet

Telling me I’m too broken just to keep trying

See, I done built my pain into the man I became

Now every mirror in the house got me hiding my face

Everybody wants truth till the truth gets dark

Till you open up your chest and show ‘em where the scars are

I was praying every night but the sky stayed silent

Started thinking maybe God and me got divided

Maybe all the things I did finally caught up

Maybe every bad decision left my soul handcuffed

And I know I got sins I can’t outrun

Got memories burned in me deeper than tattoos under skin

I hurt people that loved me while trying to love myself

Turned trauma into anger and called it mental health

Now I’m riding through the night with the windows down

Trying to drown these voices out before they pull me down

And honestly… the part that hurts the most?

I can still hear God’s voice while I’m getting close to ghosts.

Mama said

“Boy don’t let darkness inside”

But darkness was the only thing there on those nights

Now I’m standing in the fire I created myself

Trying to save everybody while destroying my health

I been dancing with the devil

Slow dance with regret

Every bad decision still hangs around my neck

And I know one day the flames gon’ pull me under—

But tonight

I can still hear the thunder

I been dancing with the devil

And he knows my name

Every time I walk away he pulls me back again

So if heaven’s got a door

I hope it’s still unlocked—

‘Cause I been dancing with the devil…

And I still can’t stop.