Joe Budden, Crooked I - Devil In My Room lyrics

Last night I heard a voice say I've
Been getting in my own way
I think I'm falling off the deep
End so I haven't been sleepin'
Last night I heard a voice in my head
Said it's an emergency
Said he had some work for me

He said fuck the world or maybe
He said it in jest
I told him that I already did multiple times
Truthfully I wasn't never impressed
But to contradict that matter again
To the point where nothing matters again
More money, more problems, more cases
More lawyers involved
And more fame just means
More paranoia involved
I done made friends, lost friends, same hour
Tried to use my truths as
A means to gain power
Uh, same tricks, same cowards
Why I be like fuck any nigga that ain't ours
Never slipping, never threatened
I think they forgetting for a
Second non-fiction ain't a weapon
Thoughts could be hypnotic, nah
Just neurotic
Called oft psychotic, flawed by off logic
But I got this

Last night I saw the devil sitting in my room
And we greeted with a smile
Said that he'd been there for a while
Last night I heard the devil
Talking in my head said this an emergency
Said he had some words for me he said

He said he said one day your friends
Gon' be your demise
Said a few of 'em is me in disguise
Deceit in his eyes
Said I like the teaching me wise
But the leeches I don't need
In my life, please, be advised
Real coy, listening, still annoyed
Said these hoes fill a void
Of holes you still avoid
Said you searching, you don't know what to do
You thinking you fucking 'em when
Really they fucking you
Look, said they see you and feast
Said you give the love to the
Ones that need it the least but wait
You can't put me on trial for my errors
I learned, trial and error
The how I couldn't tell ya
You talking to the realest, nah
Just a realist nah, you just a nigga don't
Recognize what the real is
Thoughts could be hypnotic
Thoughts get out of pocket
You'll be powerless, get lost, you
Try to stop it, i got this

Last night I saw the devil sitting in my room
And we greeted with a smile
Said that he'd been there for a while
Last night I heard the devil
Talking in my head said this an emergency
Said he had some words for me he said

He said, "What you doin' this music for?
I got news for ya
If you don't sell your soul to me
Then you just gon' ruin your future, bruh
See, I just cracked open this Goose
And I mixed that elixir with juice
Then I was introduced to Lucifer
In a dark room, his tongue sharp as a harpoon
We started discussin' things
He told me 'bout his
Minions and his underlings
Told me that he was Geppetto of the ghetto
Had snake niggas on his puppet strings
Taught him betrayal and other schemes
He ain't new to this, he true to this
Said he been doin' this
Since Jesus was crossed
For thirty pieces of silver and he sealed
The deal with a Judas kiss
When Caesar was stabbed in the back
He was the one who placed
The knife in Brutus fist
Now he got his hands in our music biz
(he said)
Told me to ignore the war on the poor
Aim my music more towards the
Whores and drug lords
And the fans'll pour through the doors
Sell out my tours, get awards galore
I told him I just wanted to
Be the modern day Marvin Gaye
He said, "You might wanna rethink that
'Cause, I know where your father stay
I'll possess him to pick up the chrome
Pop you in your dome for tryna
Tell the people what's goin' on"
He said, "That's where you goin' wrong
There's more demons than angels in this biz
You on your own wanna hit the big screen?
Switch your sixteens
Get some slim jeans, forget your big dreams
I'll make your wrist gleam
Get your big cream, hope you're lis'ning"
I just had to switch to his team, uh
It was tempting the contract was in blood
He said, "I know you sick of trafficking
Drugs - sign it" "Nah, I got this"

Last night I saw the devil sitting in my room
And we greeted with a smile
Said that he'd been there for a while
Last night I heard the devil
Talking in my head said this an emergency
Said he had some words for me he said

Last night I heard a voice say I've
Been getting in my own way
I think I'm falling off the deep
End so I haven't been sleepin'
Last night I heard a voice in my head
Said it's an emergency
Said he had some work for me

I think the weed started fucking with a nigga