The Beautiful & Damned

Album: The Beautiful & Damned (2017)
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  • Ever seen a devil with a halo?
    Ever seen an angel with some horns?
    Everybody got their own demons
    Everybody fightin' their own war, oh

    When you move as fast as I'm movin'
    All the toxic things that I'm using
    All the substances I'm abusin'
    All the sex, and the drugs, and the boozin'
    The decision is mine for the choosin'
    But I can't understand what I'm losin'
    'Cause I been this way it's not a new thing
    I know a Gemini can be confusing
    Split right down the middle like there's two of me
    No hiding, I bare all nudity
    This is everything that comes with celebrity
    Criticism, ridicule and the scrutiny
    Think about what I spent on some jewelry
    But it all comes back to me usually
    And it's none of y'alls business truthfully
    You don't know 'bout the fame, what it do to me
    I'm talking to myself like every night
    You could try to be a better guy
    But to understand a Gemini
    Angel, devil, it's both him and I
    Demons in me they just multiply
    If I don't kill 'em all, I never try
    Life is short, and men lie, women lie
    But a legend he could never die

    Ever seen a devil with a halo? (yeah)
    Ever seen an angel with some horns? (y'know)
    Everybody got their own demons
    Everybody fightin' their own war
    I can be an angel sometimes, I can be real fucked up
    I miss you only sometimes, I give you real tough love
    'Cause I'm a devil with a halo, whoa-oh-oh

    Yeah, put the hours in, put the work in
    Swear I try so hard to be perfect
    But sometimes shit feels like a burden
    'Cause I still ain't shit but a person
    Switch lanes in the Porsche that I'm swervin'
    Tell myself slow down off the bourbon
    "When you drive like that, it made me nervous"
    Not tonight, not closing the curtains
    When I die, not trying to see hell
    Feel like I'm headed that way in a V12
    And I just broke up with my female
    On tour, had to do it by email
    But that's all I'ma save you the detail
    Therapy with a beat and a freestyle
    Either way, live today, I'ma be well
    'Cause I never wanna let 'em see me fail
    I'm talkin' to myself, "what's wrong with you?
    You should make some songs to turn up to
    Thinkin' too much like you usually do
    'Til you drink some liquor, then you're cool
    Throw your brain away, that's all it takes
    Dumb it down, but that's not what he makes
    Then say fuck the sales, and fuck the 'biz
    It's not that easy Gerald, nothing is"

    Ever seen a devil with a halo (yeah)
    Ever seen an angel with some horns (y'know)
    Everybody got their own demons
    Everybody fightin' their own war
    I can be an angel sometimes, I can be real fucked up
    I miss you only sometimes, I give you real tough love
    'Cause I'm a devil with a halo, whoa-oh-oh Writer/s: Dakarai Gwitira, Georgia Sinclair, Gerald Gillum, Madison Katherine Wolf, Mali Koa Hood, Zoe Nash
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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