Demons

When I think of you in the city

The sight of you among the sights

I get this sudden sinking feeling

Of a man about to fly

It never kept me up before

And now I've been awake for days

But I can't fight it anymore

I'm going through an awkward phase

I'm secretly in love with

Everyone that I grew up with

I do my crying underwater

I can't get down any farther

All my drowning friends can see

Now there is no running from it

It's become the crux of me

I wish that I could rise above it

I stay down with my demons

I stay down with my demons

Bats and buzzards in the sky

Alligators in the sewers

And I don't even wonder why

I hide among the younger viewers

And I huddle with them all night long

The worried talk to God goes on

I sincerely try to love it

I wish that I could rise above it

So I stay down with my demons

I stay down with my demons

I stay down with my demons

I stay down with my demons

Can I stay here? I can sleep on the floor

Paint the blood and hang the palms on the door

I do not think I'm going places anymore

I want to see the sun come up above New York

Oh, every day I thought so great

And then the sunlight dims

The less I look, the more I see

The pythons and the limps

I do not know what's wrong with me

It's hours in the cut

And when I walk into a room

I do not light it up

So I stay down with my demons

I stay down with my demons

I stay down with my demons

I stay down with my demons

I stay down with my demons