1991 – Devil’s A Lie Lyrics by Wyclef Jean
(Feat. PRICE & Kayla GC)
Yahweh Yahweh Yahweh Yahweh
The hate louder, but love stronger
And even I some time check the maker
If you made us why the good suffer?
Matthew tax us while the rich get richer
Trap Got raided, mama said her graces
God heard the prayers got the ankle and the bracelet
Could’ve slipped on the I.C.E. and I would’ve faced the deportation
But I sing like Solomon and I build like a mason
Jean Wyclef if you know me I’m the reformator
No typewriter but a Holy Ghost writer
My Genesis started off at Haiti
The Exodus I moved to Brooklyn, New York City
Papa preaching from the book of Leviticus
The mob are moving numbers
That’s Dooda and Ra, not me them boys are pushers
I’m Aretha’s amazing grace on church steps
Basically what I’m saying God ain’t through with me yet
Where I’m from man your life cut quicker than the shortest verse in the Bible
What’s that? Jesus wept
Preacher’s son spinning they spin the block I take they tools show ’em a different way to rebuild
Jerusalem’s schools
Uh, up the block the Samaritan, turn it tricks
I’m rolling dice
Uh, she was looking for the water
Saw my Jesus piece and found Christ
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I fear no evil for he is with me
I’m ready for the smoke put me in the furnace like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
You gonna say you put three and now you see four
I’m a living testimony the devil a liar
He told me I should push the rock like my name Peter
I was born out the blood I’m a born sinner
But when the bullet missed my head it made me a believer
You a Esther, not a Jezebel, not a Delilah, but a Sheba
Watch you dance, so seductive
What you want?
She said the head of the Baptist
Sunday morning that’s my daddy at the pulpit
I’m on a B3 sounding like the Holy Spirit
Horse and chariots I’mma ascend like Elijah
I could see the son of man coming like I’m Micah
And that’s Joseph he married to Mary
Christmas in the projects I used to hear the story
Two kids she the dad and the mom
Do whatever it takes to protect the home
Pharisees see him stripping for the coin
When stone and he without sin cast the first stone
The hate louder, but love stronger
And even I some time check the maker
If you made us why the good suffer?
Matthew tax us while the rich get richer
Trap Got raided, mama said her graces
God heard the prayers got the ankle and the bracelet
Could’ve slipped on the I.C.E. and I would’ve faced the deportation
But I sing like Solomon and I build like a mason
I am a sinner
Lord, forgive me
Devil a liar
The sinner the choir
You wearing a mask like you Michael the Myers
I’m never scared we can meet by the river
Carry two swords I got Michael and Peter
Take you off your high horses in Damascus
Have you go blind like you Saul in the pasting?
Devil a liar, the devil a liar, devil a liar, the devil’s a liar
The devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, you said it now
The devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, believe me
The devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, you said it now
The devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, believe me
The devil’s a liar, the old man would tell me
Don’t hang with your cousins out in the city
They gon’ get booked in Central Brooklyn
They in the kitchen you know what they cooking
You know what they cooking, you know what they cooking
They up in the kitchen you know what they cooking
The witches put the baby powder in diapers
You know what they cooking, you know what they cooking
The devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, you said it now
The devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, believe me
The devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, you said it now
The devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, the devil’s a liar, believe me
It’s hard to feel limitless when you read Leviticus
Mob deep in these infamous times, wicked and timid it’s hard to see who the villain is
Sodom and Gomorrah they kidnapping and killing kids in American villages
The blood of Jesus spilling is it healing or venomous
You having doubts but you just shut up and gotta deal with it
His skin look like mine that’s something they never will admit
You can heal the sick right in their face and I bet they still forget
Indigenous to the land look at me that’s what a pilgrim is
While they put crack in the ghetto we was smoking and dealing it
Soaking the thrill of it
Hopeless diligent
Holding still a bit
Hoping to kill a nig’
Moses on militant charged up by the sky
Twelve disciples on my side each nigga ready to slide
Holy water for the hot days
Dodging the cop days they let the Pac play
Then shot him in broad day
Y’all pray to Yahweh
Yahweh Yah-Yahweh
Praise to God Yahweh
Praise to God Yahweh
Yahweh Yah-Yahweh
Praise to God Yahweh
Praise to God Yahweh
Yahweh Yah-Yahweh
Praise to God Yahweh
Praise to God Yahweh