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“The Devil in me” by Desmond Kelly The song is self-explanatory. It really doesn’t matter where young guys like us were born, not one, that I know, could have claimed to be a Saint. I was, in fact, one of the worse ones. Not so bad, until I joined the Royal Ceylon Navy, then,I made up for it, big-time. Hope my eLanka readers enjoy the lyrics. “THE DEVIL IN ME” I’m out all day, at play, by the swimming pool I’m drinking “happy beers”,for a sad & lonely fool The sun’s sinking low, as the neon lights the Street Kinda waking up, the devil in me. He’s always with me, & that’s right under my skin Lord, the things he makes me do, brother, it’s a sin When my whole life is coming apart at the seams (it) Seems never enough, for the devil in me. The devil in me, he’s ...