Devil's Alibi

Devil's Alibi

Alisa Darklace

Industrial 2026 1 Track 3:59 E

I gave the Devil the one thing nobody ever offered him: a chance to testify. His defence is simple — no horns, no tail, no hand in any of it. You built the cage, blessed the wire and called it holy; he just stayed to watch 😈

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Devil's Alibi E
03:59
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[Intro]
It wasn't me — it wasn't me
No horns, no tail, no hand of mine

[Verse 1]
They light the candles, carve my name
Into the handle — not the blade
I never turned a single key
I only stayed to watch you play

[Verse 2]
You built the cage, you blessed the wire
Called it holy, watched it catch fire
I've read your work — it's derivative
And not a single page is mine

[Pre-Chorus]
Life is the only feast you'll get
And death — the fasting after
You spent yours burning down the set
Then blamed the man behind the laughter

[Chorus]
It wasn't me — it wasn't me
No horns, no tail, no hand of mine
The hell you're standing in is yours:
You signed the deed, you drew the line
Don't come to me with dirty hands —
I never had to lift a finger
It wasn't me — it wasn't me
I only stayed to watch you linger

[Bridge]
I've met the worst of what I've made.
None of them ever thought to bomb a school.
None of them ever prayed before they aimed.
I learned it all from you.

[Final Chorus]
It wasn't me — it was never me
No horns, no tail, no hand of mine
The hell you're standing in is yours:
You signed the deed, you drew the line
Don't come to me with dirty hands —
I don't need to lift a finger anymore
It wasn't me — it was never me

For a couple of thousand years he’s been the most convenient defendant in history. Every war, every cruelty, every “something came over me” — file it under the Devil and go to lunch. Devil’s Alibi is his side of the story, and his defence is almost insulting in how simple it is: he never had to do anything. “I never turned a single key / I only stayed to watch you play.”

The pre-chorus is the philosophy I actually live by, under the corset and the jokes: life is the only feast you’ll get, and death is the fasting after. If this is the one life there is, then what you do with it is yours — nobody below to blame, nobody above to clean up after you. That’s all my Satanism has ever been: responsibility with no outsourcing. And because I couldn’t leave him without a sense of humour, he’s also a snob: “I’ve read your work — it’s derivative.” We haven’t invented a new cruelty in centuries. We just keep reissuing the old ones with a blessing on the cover.

Then the bridge, where I stop joking. “None of them ever prayed before they aimed.” It isn’t the violence he can’t match, it’s the prayer before it — the certainty that God signed off. Listen for the small change in the last chorus: “I never had to lift a finger” becomes “I don’t need to lift a finger anymore.” The student has outgrown the teacher.