# Sympathy for the Devil and some enigmatic lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 21, 2025, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sympathy-for-the-devil-and-some-enigmatic-lyrics/1015915 "2025-03-21T15:39:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 60
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sympathy-for-the-devil-and-some-enigmatic-lyrics/1015915/60 "2025-03-22T03:30:05Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Just as every cop is a criminal > And all the sinners saints > As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > It can be argued that the narrator is actually God. From last year: > [@What’s puzzling you is the nature of my game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-puzzling-you-is-the-nature-of-my-game/1006229/14): > > You wanted something deeper? Okay. The singer makes a big deal out of the listener guessing his name. Late in the song, he says “call me Lucifer”. But notice he doesn’t say his name actually is Lucifer. And even after he tells the listener to call him that, he still makes a point about the listener guessing his name. So here’s a possibility; the singer isn’t Satan. He’s God. It was God not Satan who did all the violent things the singer describes. The listener is supposed to understand this a… > [@Smapti](#): > > The singer is on the road through the Far East and is pleased to have run into a fellow Aussie, that’s all. I think you have it 180 degrees out. the song is lamenting that, wherever the singer goes, no matter how remote or distant, he can’t help but keep running into Australians. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sympathy-for-the-devil-and-some-enigmatic-lyrics/1015915)._