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The Devil Every Day

from Visitors by Howard Simon

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The basic frame of this song dates back to a day in 1983 when I was riding my bicycle along the Chicago lakefront and passed some kids smoking pot and having a good laugh. It grew in pieces over the years (and was pretty much re-written for this album in 2015) to become a song about a broken relationship, new beginnings, and forgiveness and acceptance. And I’ve always wanted to be a rocker! (And thanks to my recording engineer Derek Bianchi for the killer electric guitar work on this track!)

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The Devil Every Day

On the one side you got the water
On the other side you got the road
The wrong choice leads the lamb to the slaughter
The right choice gonna lighten your load
There are kids gettin’ high on the lakefront
Me, I’m just gettin’ by on the street
But you’ll know when the wave’s gonna break
When you listen to the heart of its beat

No I did not leave you gladly
In that season of the wind
You may say I acted badly
But you may not say I sinned
And the hangman’s in his black hood
With the devil every day
While you’re down south in the backwoods
And I’m out west by the bay

Now we’re both left to wonder what happened
We’re both left to wonder who won
But I’ll never again be caught nappin’
And you’ll always be ready to run

Now the summer sun is sinking
Though it isn’t raining yet
If you tell me what you’re thinking
I’ll tell you what I’m trying to forget
Now the garden’s gone to desert
And all I want to do is get wet
But the summer sun is sinking
And it isn’t raining yet

Now we’re both left to wonder what happened
We’re both left to wonder who won
But I’ll never again be caught nappin’
And you’ll always be ready to run

In this new life that I’m living
You’re almost never there
But I’m feeling quite forgiving
‘Cuz I’m coming up for air
And I’m used to flying solo
I’m a stone cold one-man band
And no one finds his Yoko
When he’s a real nowhere man

On the one hand you got the water
On the other hand you’ve had your say
Every hour gets a little bit shorter
With the devil every day
With the devil every day
With the devil every day

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from Visitors, released June 27, 2016

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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