Devil Town Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I was livin' in a devil town
Didn't know it was a devil town

Oh, lord, it really brings me down
About the devil town

[Verse 2]
And all my friends were vampires
Didn't know they were vampires

Turns out I was a vampire myself
In the devil town

[Verse 3]
I was livin' in a devil town
Didn't know it was a devil town
Oh, lord, it really brings me down
About the devil town

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Genius Annotation

“Devil Town” is the opening track of Johnston’s album “1990”.

The track was popularized by Tony Lucca’s cover, featured in the television show, “Friday Night Lights”.

As a manic depressive, Johnston often framed his struggles as an innate battle of good versus evil, giving a potential insight in the meaning of the “devil town” and its “vampires”.

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