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    "Devils Heaven (snippet)"genre: Hip Hop
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    CD: A War To Restore   Label: Syntax Records

    Story Behind the Song
    Dirts favorite Line(s): ‘we make commitments and promises, knowing very well that we don’t mean to keep them’, ‘since god is maximum, why do we seek out minimum’, ‘devils inoculate but its our own flesh that enhance’


    My favorite thing about this song is the title. I don’t know when or where I thought of it but I always dug it. Like many of the songs, on this album, this one was written before PLAGUE was released. To me it was ‘old’ by the time I got to lay it down. That happens a lot to artists. By the time the stuff gets out to the public, they are already thinking about the next stuff. Because of this, I thought this song wouldn’t be well liked. But since the albums release, I have been proven wrong. I get a lot of positive feedback concerning this one. Even so, I have never played it live.

    The title represents that the world we have created is a heaven to devils. The evils that we submit ourselves to are such a delight to evil principalities. And to even further the idea, this world is literally the closest thing devils will get to heaven since they will not be allowed in God’s heaven in the end.

    I always loved the dragged out sound that the main loop makes and, sadly, I found out after the album released that another emcee had used the same loop (I think it was La the Darkman). The difference he had a bassline as the main loop with the same loop playing real light in the background. The other difference is that I am more handsome than him. But don’t tell him I said that. He’s part of Wu Tang and I might be killed.

    I can’t remember exactly where we got that vocal sample in between the two verses. It was from a movie but don’t recall which one. Some old ‘scary’ movie. I always thought it was funny how the echo effect came in on the end of the first verse when I say ‘precipice’ but it just picked up the tail of the word.‘piss…piss…piss…’

    We tried doing pieces of the lyrics on different tracks and then mixing them panned to different sides of the speakers. This and the crazy echoes came out real good. I thought they added to the overall emotion of the track. All this said, I cant help wishing we had more time to mix this one down better (Jesse mixed the whole album in 2 days!).

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    Lyrics
    "Devils Heavan "

    CONSTANTLY OBSERVIANT TO THE FACT
    THAT I WANNA BE SUBSERVIANT TO THE RIGHT PATH
    BUT THIS DEVILS HEAVEN
    STEAL MY INNER SIGHT, WITH MIXED SIGNALS IN MY CEREBRUM
    I’M TRYIN TO GRAB GOD WITHOUT A THUMB
    DEMORAL SOOTHES THE PAIN, PHYSICAL
    BUT MY MENTAL IMPRISONMENT
    IS STUNTING MY DEVELOPMENT
    I LOOK AROUND AND ONLY SEE TAINTED HARVEST
    AND PEOPLE PAYIN RENT IN SATANIC PROJECTS
    AND THE KIDS TODAY, FEEL THAT LIFE IS HOPELESS
    SO THEY LUBRICATE THEMSELVES WITH INTOXICANTS
    LEAF LICKERS IGNORANT TO THE FACT
    THAT GOD RUNS THE ONLY TRUE ADMINISTRATION
    SO THEY FIGHT WITH CRANAL WEAPONS
    AS THEIR MINDS ARE SHRUNK BY TELEVISION
    AND EXPLOITED BY PERVERSION
    WITH NO ONE SEEKIN ANY KIND OF SOLUTION
    BRINGIN FORTH A POLLUTION
    THAT’S RISING FROM THE SMOKE STACK!
    THIS DEVILS HEAVEN!
    GOT ME SO I CAN’T EVEN SEE 7 INCHES IN FRONT OF MY COUNTENANCE
    FILLIN THE AIR THAT WE BREATHE WITH AN EVIL SUBSTENANCE
    DEVILS INNOCULATE, BUT IT’S OUR OWN FLESH THAT ENHANCE
    AND NOW DISEASE DETCTIVES ARE HUNTING THIS SICK VIRUS
    THAT STOLE THE FOCUS FROM MY IRIS
    LEAVING 2 LAWS FIGHTING IN MY OWN RESIDENCE (Rom. 7:13-25)
    WE SEEK GRATIFICATION, REGARDLESS OF THE CONSEQUENCES
    SIN IS INSIDIOUS, BUT OUR PRAYER CLOSETS ARE NEGLECTED
    AND FOR THIS
    WE FALL OFF THE PRECIPICE
    N’ NO WORD IN ANY DICTIONARY/THESUARUS
    CAN WE UTTER TO SAVE US
    WE MAKE COMMITMENTS AND PROMISES
    KNOWING VERY WELL THAT WE DON’T MEAN TO KEEP THEM!
    THIS DEVIL’S HEAVEN!


    WEAK MINDS GOT BROAD TONGUES
    YEILDING NEW STRAINS OF POISON
    CREATING AN UNSTEADY CIRRICULUM
    SOME TURN THEIR ATTENTION TOWARDS THE MESSENGERS OF GOD
    WORSHIPPING ANGELS AND/OR PHYSICAL ARTIFACTS
    HOLY WATER AND OIL FROM ETERNAL LAMP
    HEAL ME! BUT THE PRAISE IS DIRECTED TOWARDS CREATION
    WHICH INSTITUTES MAXIMUM FRICTION
    KILLING TRUE FAITH WITHIN THE CONGREGATION
    PICKIN UP SIGNALS OF A PROCESS OF DEVALUTION
    THROUGH REDEFINITION
    SOLDIERS LOOK LIKE SKELETON!
    BLOWIN ON ME AS IF THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS SOME KIND OF MYSTICAL FORCE THAT CAN BE BLOWN FROM THE MOUTH ON COMMNAND!!
    I’M WEARIN SACKCLOTH AND GRABBIN EARTH IN MY HAND!
    REPENT AND TURN BACK FROM GHETTO TO SUBURBAN
    SETTLEMENTS!
    AND STOP FOCUSING ON PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE
    I’M SENSING A LACK OF AUTHORITY
    AND EVEN IN MY OWN HEART, I’M PONDERING CONSTANTLY
    AND IN AN EFFORT TO ELIMINATE THE DIFFICULTIES
    I’M BREATHIN DUST OF CONSPIRACIES
    WHILE HEARIN HARSH WORDS FROM OTHER EMCEE’S
    THAT WERE MEANT TO EDIFY ME, BUT INSTEAD THEY BREAK ME!


    SINCE GOD IS MAXIMUM, WHY DO WE SEEK OUT MINIMUM!?
    THIS DEVILS HEAVEN!
    GOT US LIVIN IN DESPERATE TIMES
    YET WE ARE NOT SEEKIN GOD DESPERATELY!
    EMMITING DOCTRINES FALSELY
    TOSSED TO N’ FRO BY WINDS VIOLENTLY
    THIS DEVILS HEAVEN!
    GOT PEOPLE SO THEY’LL ONLY BELIEVE IF THEY SEE A SIGN OR MIRACLE
    ALTERNATING ERADICALL
    WHILE LAUGHING AND HOWLING HYSTERICALLY
    UNABLING ME TO HEAR THE MESSAGES OF GOD!…CHA!….

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