When I was a child a story was told
About the devil and a girl oh so bold
He offered her riches, a fortune of gold
And lovers abound

But she lifted her soul
She lifted her soul clean oh clean
And like the story was told
On a dark country road

The same man appeared to me
But I reached
I reached
Through the rain to the devil's feet

Now twenty years later to the place i return
Where I scorned the angels 
For a passion that burned
There set in the tree a knot twisted and turned

The face of a creature hell bound
So long ago could my mind 
Have played jokes on me
As darkness sets in unavoidable sin

The truth i try not to believe
That I reached I reached
Through the rain to the devil's feet