The Devils Dirty Work

VERSE ONE

You cut the fabric of my heart

To assemble your red flags

Then wore them like a bloody badge of honor

Satisfied I'd played my part

Another victim in your hands

Another lover slaughtered in your massacre

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CHORUS

And I wonder how I missed the signs

Those sirens blaring your intentions

The subtle cues that you left, laying at my feet

I was so tangled in your lies

Your blue eyes hiding the deception

An ultimate accomplice in my own defeat

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VERSE TWO

You prepared me like a gourmet meal

Didn't skimp on any trimmings

Filled my head up with illusions, grandiose

You checked the box of every feel I needed

Sending my heart and head a reeling

I should have seen it coming, I suppose

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CHORUS

And I wonder how I missed the signs

Those sirens blaring your intentions

The subtle cues that you left, laying at my feet

I was so tangled in your lies

Your blue eyes hiding the deception

The ultimate accomplice in my own defeat

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BRIDGE

Cause when it's too good, then it's too good

And the way it ended, turned out, wasn't really good for me

You played me for a fool and you read me like a book

I was blind baby, but believe me, now I see.....

I did the devils dirty work for him, for free

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VERSE THREE

I only hope my battle scars will tell the tale I couldn't tell

And warn the next one on your list, to be aware

Cause sometimes the road to heaven mimics the path to hell

Please be cautious of the red flags people wear

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CHORUS

And I wonder how I missed the signs

Those sirens blaring your intentions

The subtle cues that you left, laying at my feet

I was so tangled in your lies

Your blue eyes hiding the deception

The ultimate accomplice in my own defeat

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OUTRO

If you'd have told me years ago, the road leading to my demise

Would be paved with secrets there, behind a pair of deep blue eyes

That I would surrender without fight, everything that made me, me

I would have laughed, but then, you couldn't let me see.....

The me you needed me to be, the me you created so carefully

Made me the your accomplice, in my own defeat

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Authors Note:

Walls and red flags; lessons and things we've had to experience and wrestle with, teaching us the hard lessons... not everything is as it seems. We all have them, we've all felt that sting for the first time, causing us to change how we view life and others. Some searing us to our cores, changing us internally, indefinitely, irreversibly.

Can you remember a time that you didn't have those walls built up around your heart, protecting you? When you could take another person at their word..

I wonder what the world would be like if we could return to a time of that kind of trust. When red flags were indicators of situations that warned us of potential dangers, not people.

How sad to know that some people require that kind of warning. Thay are the most dangerous. Luring you into a calm sense of trust and unpredictably changing like the wind or tide, putting you in extreme danger, with little or no warning or escape.

This song tells a bit of my own experience with love. My naivety and renewed longing to make myself whole again Learning to navigate love and life in a sea of red flags.

Thank you for taking the time to read a small part of my story.