High up on you, you display good traits though few.
We've found time alone will tell.
This disease keeps holding me down.
Try to run when bear sleep.
To imagine us away.
He said come, fly around my he'll.
And know this, you seem to be
Too scared to run.
Wish I had your faults
Nothing seems to phase you
Lies, you're much more than just human.
I was high up on you til the shadows began to crawl.
Some say we can never know from just how far down this beast has come.
Too scared to run
So scared to run
Wish I had your faults
Nothing seems to phase you
Lies, you're much more than just human."



Lyrics submitted by flashflatliner

Track duration: 05:44

"An Evening with El Diablo" as written by Peter/loeffler Loeffler

Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

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    My Interpretation:In my opinion, this songs meaning is based on one's battle with suppressed inner demons and related emotions. \m/
    Flag mwarnock55on September 14, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:First of all, the lyrics are wrong:

    *Try to run when YOU sleep*
    *Fly around my HELL*
    *Nothing seems to FAZE you*
    *I was high ABOVE you* (different the second time)
    *Some say we can never know - just how far down* (No "from" there)
    The last time he screams "so scared", he screams "to lie" after it instead of "to run".
    And he says "Wish I had your faults" twice more at the end.

    As far as the lyrical interpretation, it seems to obviously be about the devil, but that's as far as I got before it made no sense. The meaning doesn't matter as much to me because the music is awesome!
    Flag MusicStuff0405on June 19, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:if what i have read is true, then i am the guy pete refers to in the lyrics. regardless, i love this song and i believe i am still a moral person. i do not believe in any religion (or god) and yes sometimes i tend to overindulge my appetites. this does not make me the devil's spawn. i can relate to the song and enjoy it without consenting to the spiritual undertone. i still love this album.
    Flag disconneckton December 05, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:To me this song can be tooken in many different ways, but in my opinion I think its about someone who is using you for sex, drugs, whatever it may be. "Too scared to run" is someone stuck in an abusive relatshionship to me. This song really spoke to me, because I was in an abusive relatshionship for a year. "I wish I had your faults, nothing seems to phase you...much more than human I was high up on you until the shadows began to crawl" I take it as "You've hurt me but you dont care, Treating me as though I am nothing but it doesnt matter to you, your much more than human, your evil. I was in love with you, until I saw your dark side, your underlying evil. I cant seem to escape from your grasp." Maybe not even love, maybe someone who had hurt him before he is comparing to the devil/ an incarnation of pure evil. I have no reason to still be with you or even talk to you I just cant escape youve caught me in your web of shadows.
    Flag Sushicoonon October 14, 2011   Link
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    Song Meaning:This song reminds me of my girlfriend who finally left a very abusive relationship.
    The song is sung from her position in reference to her ex-husband (boyfriend for others)

    At first all seems normal and yet it becomes obvious that he is more evil than anything else.
    The only escape is her sleep at night Try to run/When you're asleep/To imagine/This away
    But the reality is his control over her and her fear makes it impossible to leave.

    The chorus represents her torn feelings between her fear and her original emotions towards him.
    Too scared to run/So scared to run/Wish I had your faults/Nothing seems to phase you/Lies, you're much more than just human

    She wants to run and at the same time sees him as that great person she first met and promised the world.
    The ending is non-specific just as an abused wife is. She may finally overcome her fear and run or he may succeed in totally destroying her.

    Fortunately I helped my girlfriend escape the devil. :)
    Flag longrangeshooteron August 02, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:love the bass in this song too its pretty sick
    Flag wonderwhatsnexton April 11, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:one of my favorite songs from them, badass band and badass album :)
    Flag wonderwhatsnexton April 11, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:It's "faze" not "phase."
    Flag bornofdesire32on May 12, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Can't wait for "Sci-Fi Crimes".
    September 8th suddenly seem so far away.
    Flag Lemon Scentedon June 26, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:first of all how the hell do you get during the long winter from time alone will tell? anyway this song is about talking with a person that pretends to be a great guy to lure you in then is actually hateful and twisted, much like the devil, hence the "el Diablo"
    Flag bbchainon March 26, 2009   Link

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