The Devil I Know

Three in the morning came without a warning
 Wound up with some old buccaneers
 Tellin' lies about the time I won the Nobel Prize
 Guess who bought all the beers?
 Well, you'd think I'd have tamed my old dragons by now
 I've always tried to be a good scout
 But every now and then they come swoopin' in
 Saying, "Bubba, it's time to go out"
 Now it's fun to wake up in a strange chateau
 After racing 'round Paris in a Deux Chevaux
 My wingman's crashing, but I'm not flying solo
 'Cause he traded places with the devil I know
 Devil I know, devil I know
 Well, life can be confusing, but things need excusin'
 To separate the turns from the twists
 If I had a Richter scale for spouting forked tails
 We'd all be high on that shit list
 Well, the hitch to living hard is when you drop your guard
 And wind up in a headline or a cell
 Then compromise, or worse, apologize
 Welcome to the world of sinkin' spells
 Messing with my mind was fun at the time
 Tossing to and fro in a tricky undertow
 Deviants and derelicts, lurking high and low
 Ridin' shotgun with the devil I know
 Devil I know, devil I know
 Let's go ridin', devil
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 There were times, there were places
 We played near and far
 From the old Anchor Inn to the Suez Canal bar
 From the Kraken to Manhattan
 Le Select to Old Saigon
 Mojitos in Havana
 Timbuktu 'til dawn
 Three in the mornin', feral cats are yawnin'
 Full moon sinking in the bay
 Spoonbills in flight, oh, what a sight
 As I sip on my café au lait
 Well, the birds got me thinkin' 'bout going day drinkin'
 A hall pass to be the old me
 Don't need hops and barley to throw a little party
 Señorita, una mas iced tea
 Hell, it's fun to go fishing on a new slack tide
 Wake up living life on the flip side
 Them dragons ain't gone, but they're fading like an old tattoo
 Lots of mystery in the history of the devils I knew
 Devils I knew, devils I knew