Demons – English Lyrics

• By: Avenged Sevenfold
• Album: Diamonds In The Rough

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the raw emotion and powerful lyrics of Avenged Sevenfold's "Demons." This heavy metal track offers a compelling journey into the human struggle with internal conflicts and the challenge of overcoming personal flaws. Its vivid imagery and intense narrative make it an excellent song for English learners to explore vocabulary related to emotions, self-reflection, and inner turmoil, while also experiencing the band's distinctive musical style.

[English]

I've been thinking lots about my life and

How quick I'd wash it down the drain

Past tense, the future, nothing matters now

I act on my own and I'm to blame

Living's a wicked dream where things turn out all wrong

We're all so weak no matter how strong, yeah

I tried running away from me

Convince me that I've grown, but I can't

Change so unnaturally, demons they follow me

I quit running away from me

Convinced that I have grown, but found out

All my reasons for insanity, all a part of me

I don't like that you're calling me a liar

I don't like that you found out I'm a snake

Been sneaking around for far too long now

I don't like how fast my intentions fade

Karma has beat me down, the worst is yet to come

Many mistakes and still I'm so young, yeah

I tried running away from me

Convince me that I've grown, but I can't

Change so unnaturally, demons they follow me

I quit running away from me

Convinced that I have grown, but found out

All my reasons for insanity, all a part of me

...

I can't count how many times

Awakened in fear nightly, palms sweating

Dreams of promises I've made

To no one but myself have been

Crushed daily

Don't lend me your hand, I can't trust myself

So how can you trust me?

...

We've all made selfish bad decisions

We've all tried dishing out the blame

Convinced ourselves of our own actions

My problem is I'll never change

Been dealt some good cards that I'll fold before it's time

Can't promise you that it's my last time, yeah

I tried running away from me

Convince me that I've grown, but I can't

Change so unnaturally, demons they follow me

I quit running away from me

Convinced that I have grown, but found out

All my reasons for insanity, all a part of me

...

Friends won't help you now

Hope lost, gone too far, oh, oh

Prayers won't help you now

Hope lost, gone too far, oh, oh

I'm scarred, yeah, yeah

Demons they follow me, cause my insanity

I'm scarred, yeah, yeah

Demons they follow me, cause my insanity

I'm scarred, yeah, yeah

Demons they follow me, cause my insanity

I'm scarred, yeah, yeah

Demons they follow me, cause my insanity

...

Demons they follow me, cause my insanity

...

Demons they follow me, cause my insanity

...

Key Grammar Structures

• I've been thinking lots about my life and

  ➔ Present Perfect Continuous

  ➔ The phrase 'I've been thinking' uses the Present Perfect Continuous to indicate an action that started in the past and continues up to the present.

• How quick I'd wash it down the drain

  ➔ Conditional Perfect

  ➔ 'I'd wash' is an example of the Conditional Perfect, used to express a hypothetical action in the past.

• Living's a wicked dream where things turn out all wrong

  ➔ Apostrophe for Contraction

  ➔ The apostrophe in 'Living's' is used to contract 'Living is', a common grammatical feature in informal English.

• I tried running away from me

  ➔ Past Simple with Gerund

  ➔ 'Tried running' combines the Past Simple verb 'tried' with the gerund 'running', indicating an attempted action in the past.

• All my reasons for insanity, all a part of me

  ➔ Comma Splice

  ➔ The sentence uses a comma splice to join two independent clauses: 'All my reasons for insanity' and 'all a part of me'.

• Don't lend me your hand, I can't trust myself

  ➔ Negative Imperative

  ➔ 'Don't lend' is a negative imperative, used to give a direct command not to perform an action.

• My problem is I'll never change

  ➔ Future Simple with 'will'

  ➔ 'I'll never change' uses the Future Simple with 'will' to express a future action or state.

• Friends won't help you now

  ➔ Negative Contraction with 'will not'

  ➔ 'Won't' is a contraction of 'will not', used to express a negative future action.