The Devil
PJ Harvey * Track #1 On White Chalk
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The Devil by PJ Harvey
Release Date
Mon Sep 24 2007
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The first of two songs on White Chalk based on Leo Tolstoy’s The Devil, a novella about a married man who becomes infatuated with a peasant:
“What had formerly cheered him and seemed important now seemed insignificant. Unconsciously he had tried to free himself from business. It seemed to him that...
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The Devil Lyrics
As soon as I'm left alone
The devil wanders into my soul
And I pretend to myself
I pretend to myself
I go out to the old mile-stone
Insanely expecting you to come there
Knowing that I wait for you there
That I wait for you there
Come, come, come here at once
Come, come on a night with no moon
Because all of my being is now pining
All of my being is now pining
What formerly cheered me
Now seems
Insignificant
Insignificant