The Devil Goes To Heaven

Otherside

Denver is beautiful at night. I never get the chance to see the lights from the traffic and the signs mixing and coming together like a miniature cosmos; it's nice to see.

We park in an ally way and Sam pulls out her phone and goes to Youtube.

"Delilah uploaded a new song," she says, tapping into her channel. The video's name is 'Other Side'. She plays it and it opens with Delilah strumming on her guitar. It sounds like something you'd listen to while walking in the rain after something traumatic happened to you. Then it cuts to another Delilah playing guitar, but this one is picking her chords. Then when she starts to sing, she does the bass with her hands on the guitar. And her voice, it's so powerful and sad, and unique, and deep. And I can't get it out of my head:

"And you... make my knees hit the ground... again

All these times... that I begged you in vain, forbade

All the times I felt self-conscious... about you

And I leave my sins at the threshold..."

Then she starts playing the chorus. And it rocks. Both guitars layer over each other like melted cheese. Her voice expresses where she is.

"But I'm on the other side, I'm peering in

I can see into you, see your true nature

Inside you're dark, you're dark like me

I can see into you, see to the real you...

Then it transitions into the second verse, her somber, haunting playing progressing the song.

"All times that I felt our fights wouldn't end... it's for you

And I grasp at what I could never have... it came from you

All the times that I've wept

My intentions came from pride

But I am the creator of my own demise...

But I'm on the other side, I'm peering in

I can see into you, see your true nature

Inside you're dark, you're dark like me

I can see into you, see to the real you..."

While one Delilah is strumming, it cuts back and forth to show the other rocking out with an eclectic guitar I've never seen her use before. Then she starts to belt, her voice filled with ire and agony:

"All the times that I've wept

All this darkness that dwells inside

And I feel this agony

Shove it down, but it comes back

And I sit on my throne

All alone, I can't restore

But I hope... tomorrow I'll be alright..."

It then quiets down back to just the one guitar strumming, and Delilah ends the song with:

"But I'm on the other side, I'm peering in

I can see into you, see your true nature

Inside you're dark, you're dark like me

I can see into you, see to the real you..."