The Hell You Don't Know Lyrics

Bet you're wondering why I'm so familiar, almost second nature

Guess I'm some kind of mnemonic figure in demonic nomenclature

I'm the devil you know

So forget any formal introduction

I'm the devil, you know, so forgive me my former interruption

Of all your motor functions

It's the hell you don't know that you don't know that'll serve you better than the one you know

It's the hell you don't know that you don't know that'll serve you better than the one

Serves you right, if I do say so

Sartre said that hell is other people through his haze of Gauloises

How we gaze on ourselves in other people inflames our blazing faux pas

I'm the devil you know

That's my resume and my credentials

I'm the devil, you know

And I've been translating every selfish help text

From their dead native language

Into sexy existential

It's the hell you don't know that you don't know that'll serve you better than the one you know

It's the hell you don't know that you don't know that'll serve you better than the one you know

Meanwhile while you languish in your anguish wishing for some silly little heaven thrill

It's the hell you don't know that you don't know that'll serve you better than the best your better angels will

My eventual revenge on you

My dear precious contrapasso

Is not to pull on your puppet strings or trap you in my lasso

It's just to loosen the thread you wove in the tangled web you're wrapped in

That you would be exposed to all my sadness you made happen

It's the hell you don't know that you don't know that'll serve you better than the one you know

It's the hell you don't know that you don't know that'll serve you better than the one you know

The greatest trick the devil ever turned

Was learning how to light your wick and not get burned

It's the hell you don't know that you don't know that'll serve you better than the one

I'm the devil you know

Pretty pointless in trying to resist me

I'm the devil and so

Let's commemorate our oral history I fell when you kissed me off