Cosy Is Your Soul
Write a cinematic alt-country ballad about the devil roaming the world for shattered dreams, offering promises. Feature fingerpicked guitar, cello, harmonica, soft piano, and muted trumpet for an intimate, soulful warmth.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
He was leaning on a fence post
By the all‑night laundromat
Boot heel on a beer can
Old brimmed hat pulled down flat
Said, "Son, I walk the highways
Where the broken wishes fall
Show me what you're hiding
I can almost hear it call"
[Chorus]
That's the shattered things the devil brings
Laid out in a crooked row
Promises polished like wedding rings
Catching every low light glow
You trade your sleep for a shining scene
He smiles as the church bell swings
Yeah, the world gets bright when you start to believe
In the shattered things the devil brings
[Verse 2]
Met a girl in Amarillo
With a suitcase full of notes
Every song she never finished
Folded in her winter coat
He said, "I know a stage in Nashville
Crowds will learn your every line
Just sign here in the margin
Of that dream you left behind"
[Chorus]
That's the shattered things the devil brings
Laid out in a crooked row
Promises polished like wedding rings
Catching every low light glow
You trade your sleep for a shining scene
He smiles as the church bell swings
Yeah, the world gets bright when you start to believe
In the shattered things the devil brings
[Bridge]
He walks through burned‑out bedrooms
Through letters you don't send
Through the job you almost started
Through the call you never ring again (oh)
He gathers every almost
Every "maybe," every "might"
Then whispers, "I can fix this"
By the dashboard light
[Verse 3]
I met him at my kitchen table
Bills spread like battle plans
Coffee gone to cold and bitter
Ink all over both my hands
He said, "You could buy back yesterday
You could outrun every lack"
I saw my kids' shoes by the doorway
And I pushed his paper back
[Chorus]
Keep your shattered things and the lies they sing
I'm done with that crooked glow
I've got tired hands and a faded ring
But a place my feet still know
I'll trade my fear for an honest seam
Sewn up with the smallest strings
Let the dark stay dark, I don't wanna believe
In the shattered things the devil brings
[Outro]
So if you hear boots on the gravel
And a voice like a long, low hymn
Hide away your half‑broke wishes
He'll go fishing with all of them
'Cause he roams this rusted planet
For the dreams that lost their wings
And he’s always there, when you start to stare
At the shattered things the devil brings