| The Devil got a plan
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| He don’t want you to know yet
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| Grab a couple ice cold 'dinas and prometh
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| Throw a little sprite in that bitch and you’re all set
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| Living life fast but you’re dying a slow death
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| They don’t want to hear about the teachings of Hotep
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| 'Cause kids care less about Kweli and Mos Def
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| All they wanna know is who’s getting the most bread
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| And blow they whole check tricking off of these coke heads
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| The Devil got a plan
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| He don’t want you to read it
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| If you smoke a little more weed maybe you’ll see it
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| If you sniff some more speed then you might just meet him
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| And swear up and down that he just looks like Jesus
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| Don’t believe it? |
| I know it’s kinda hard to concede it
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| But the devil doesn’t always take the shape of a demon
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| I was chilling at a party in the Garden of Eden
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| Apple cores on the floor, everybody was eatin'
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| I was getting kinda bored, getting ready to leave
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| That’s when I ran into a lady wearing nothing but a leaf
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| She said «I can do things you couldn’t imagine»
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| Kinda funny 'cause the honey didn’t know me from Adam
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| Looking at me like she wanna rip me out of my suit
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| That’s when she asked me if I wanted to try the forbidden fruit
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| Everybody in the room looking at me by now
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| Took the apple from my hand and put it up to my mouth
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| See the Devil had a plan tryna tempt me with a diva
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| But little did he know I was more powerful than he was
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| And she just sat there laughing and shit
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| «What kind of faggot ass man’s not attracted to this?»
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| I know the webs you spinning bitch, I’ve seen them before
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| And all the men trapped in them now getting divorced
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| All the lives you destroyed like the Tower of Babel
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| It should be no surprise that I married an angel
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| The Devil had a plan but I scrapped it
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| Ran to the light, stepped out of the blackness
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| It was like being blind having sight for the first time
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| I get it, if the devil got plans you ain’t got to be in them
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| Raise your hands if you understand
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| If I were the Devil
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| If I were the Prince of Darkness I would want to engulf the whole world in
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| darkness
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| And I’d have a third of its real estate and four-fifths of its population,
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| but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree
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| I’d subvert the churches first. |
| I’d begin with a campaign of whispers
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| With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: «Do as you please.»
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| If I were the Devil
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| To the young I would whisper that the Bible is a myth
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| I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around
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| I’d confide that what’s bad is good and what’s good is square
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| Pray after me. |
| Our Father, which art in Washington
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| In other words, if I were the devil, I’d just keep right on doing what he’s
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| doing
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| If I were the Devil |