Mephisto

by Various Artists

One more time then I'll know
One more lie then I'll go away
Pour another drink and I'll ease myself into the comforts of your philosophy
Try to understand your friend in need and I'm here to make it easier
You and I are one in the same we're built alike in so many ways you can't understand and you won't accept your secrets are all safely kept here
Iinside we're so lost I can be the one to find you Everything that you deserve no request will ever go unheard
You're better off without me now but without me here you're just better off alone
Just wait and see
You're just like me
Conversation's getting stale a penny for your thoughts one small betrayal
Does no man know what he's good for
Does no man want what he's asked for
It takes our design
I've spent a lifetime waiting for the chance to chase these devils away but they always come smiling when you need ‘em the most
So I'll end this night alone again with nothing to offer and nothing to give
Conversations spoken in vein alone
So go away it's easier if I stay
So go away it's easier this way

Mephisto

by BOB DYLAN

As madmen, some hung head down
From a long dead tree
Some discuss, all at once
For no one to hear
Variations on emptiness
Great themes on vain glory
And as some go feral in strange performances
Dressing customs that are metaphors
Of your disease
Hungry eyes are looking for Me...Mephisto
Laughing, I feed you
With meaningless games, tricks and philosophies
Whose answers you would die for
In your hunger to believe
How it does amuse Me
And makes Me wonder
For how long that it was Mine
Because now it does really inflame Me
As if ignorance was my secret desire...Mephisto
I am an angel who dresses in red
Riding above you, etching fire rings
I have learned to fly
Don't you remember?
While you still have not come down
From your long-dead tree
I can teach you wonders if you give me your soul
Marvels and wild dreams can be yours
I can teach you how iron turns to gold
And how life can grow so old
But I am a demon who dresses in red
And I do not hope you will understand...Mephisto