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Artist: Iron & Wine
Canonical path: /iron-wine/the-devil-never-sleeps
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The Devil Never Sleeps
Read The Devil Never Sleeps lyrics by Iron & Wine on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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The Devil Never Sleeps
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Dreaming again of a train track ending at the edge of the sea
Big black cloud was low and rolling our way
Dog at the barbed wire barking at my buzz-cut friends
Friend with a switch blade shining in the summer rain
No one on the corner had a quarter for the telephone
Everybody bitching there's nothing on the radio
Dreaming again of a city full of fathers and their white clothes
Chattering boys and a chicken at the chopping block
All of us lost at the crosswalk waiting for the other to go
Didn't find the field but, boy, you're really waterlogged
Someone bet a dollar that their daddy wasn't coming home
Everybody bitching there's nothing on the radio
Dreaming again that it's freezing and my mother's in a flower bed
Long dead rows of daffodils and marigolds
Changing her face like a shadow on the ground
This is what ?
No one lives forever and the devil never sleeps alone
Everybody bitching there's nothing on the radio
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Iron & Wine performs "The Devil Never Sleeps", and this lyric page sits inside the Iron & Wine catalog on LyroVerse.
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