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| - Devil In Jersey City is the third song from the 2002 album The Second Stage Turbine Blade. It has the distinction of being the first song in the band's discography to feature swearing. Despite this, the album does not carry a "Parental Advisory" sticker. At the beginning of the song, Claudio Sanchez is heard saying Shabutie, which was the name of the band before they decided to change it to Coheed And Cambria. This song was also Coheed And Cambria's first single, and a video was produced for the song. The music video features the band in an abandoned space station playing while switching with scenes that correspond with the lyrics. There are scenes of a mysterious doctor, and many references to The Amory Wars. The man seen with injuries is Coheed, and is played by the video's director. The scars on his arm are from The Blades which can extend from his arm. The woman seen is generally assumed to be Cambria, and also seen in the video are numerous dragonflies, who play an important part in the plot of the story. Another interesting note, the video version of the song contains a spoken word passage, similar to the ones seen in other songs like Junesong Provision, Ten Speed (Of God's Blood & Burial) and Apollo I: The Writing Writer. The spoken passage contains the line "I see a Red Army in battle with the blood of my own" suggesting the passage has ties to The Amory Wars.
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