Neo-soul with prominent funk elements, I’d hear this around 92 BPM with a deep pocket: a syncopated fingerstyle bass, tight ghost-note drums, muted wah guitar, Rhodes chords, and lush stacked harmonies in the chorus. Bright female tenor with raspy male baritone backing vocal providing vocal shoulder in the refrain and spoken lyrics. The bridge could strip down to bass and kick before the full band returns with a soaring final chorus.

Caught you crossing Kamppi, late July heat,
City dragging thunder underneath your feet.
You wore that Monday smile like borrowed clothes,
But your eyes were writing everything nobody knows.

You laughed too quick, looked away too soon,
Like neon light couldn't fill the empty mall.
The world kept talking—you let it pass,
Holding your heart together with tremor in 
	your 
voice.

You once told me,
*"The devil you know beats 
	the angel you don't."*
I laughed it off—
But somehow I carried it home.

So if the sky keeps 
	promising 
miracles
That never learn your name,
If perfect hands 
	keep letting 
	go
When loving gets too strange—

I'm still 
	the devil 
you 
know.
Still wearing 
	these 
		familiar scars.
Still holding your 
			keys,
No matter where you are.

No bargain.
No chains.
No "I told you so."
Just a heart 
	that never 
forgot...

The devil you know.

I've changed enough 
	to know I won't save you,
Love ain't a fight, 
		nobody wins.
I won't rewrite the 
	chapters 
	we survived,
Or paint halos over all our sins.

I just hate seeing worry
Tear through your grin.
Like you're carrying winter
Beneath your summer skin.

If happiness found 
	another address,
I'd wave you there myself.
Love isn't ownership—
It's wanting somebody well.

Maybe angels 
	speak 
	in perfect lines,
	Never miss, 
never bleed.
But I've always known
How to love your messy needs.

So if the sky 
keeps 
	promising 
	miracles
That never learn your name,
If perfect hands 
	keep letting go
When loving gets too strange—

I'm still 
	the devil 
you know.
Still ready 
	to go to hell 
	and back
for you.
Still calling 
	you 
	beautiful
Through your darkest thoughts.

No payment.
No score.
Nothing to outgrow.
Just someone who still cares...

The devil you know.


Maybe we're not each other's forever.

Maybe we're just proof...

...that being loved once
		can teach a heart
how not to disappear.

You don't owe me tomorrow.

I only wanted you to remember—

there's one devil in this city...

who still hopes you get home safe.

I'm still 
	the devil you know,
The one who 
	learned 
	to hold fire gently.
Still got your back
Even if you'll 
	never stand beside me.

Take every blessing.
Take every chance.
Take every angel waiting in white.

And if they don't know
How to carry your storms—

You'll 
	never 
	have to wonder

whether

	this devil

stopped loving you.