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“Devil Pray” is the second song on Rebel Heart and it was released as a promotional single prior the album release on December 20, 2014.
The song is about struggling with drugs and the necessity to be rescued from sin and addiction through spirituality.
Despite not being released as an official sin...
[Verse 1]
Take my sins and wash them away
Teach me how to pray
I've been stranded here in the dark
Take these walls away
I've been swimming in the ocean
'Til I'm almost drowned
Give me something I can believe in
Teach me how to pray
[Pre-Chorus]
And we can do drugs, and we can smoke weed, and we can drink whiskey
Yeah, we can get high and we can get stoned
And we can sniff glue and we can do E and we can drop acid
Forever be lost, with no way home
[Chorus]
Yeah, we can run and we can hide, but we won't find the answers
If you go down, then you'll get help along the way
But if you wanna save your soul, then we could travel together
And make the devil pray
[Drop]
(Ooh, save my, s—, ooh, save my, s—, ooh, save my, s—)
Devil's here to fool ya
(Ooh, save my, s—, ooh, save my, s—, ooh, save my, s—)
Devil's here to fool ya
Ooh, save my, s—, ooh, save my, s—, ooh, save my, s—
Devil's here to fool ya
Ooh, save my, s—, ooh, save my, s—, ooh, save my, s—
Devil's here to fool ya
[Verse 2]
Mother Mary, can't you help me?
'Cause I've gone astray
All the angels that were around me
Have all flown away
The ground beneath my feet's getting warmer
Lucifer is near
Holding on, but I'm getting weaker
Watch me disappear
[Pre-Chorus]
And we can do drugs and we can smoke weed and we can drink whiskey
Yeah, we can get high and we can get stoned
And we can sniff glue and we can do E and we can drop acid
Forever be lost, with no way home
[Chorus]
Yeah, we can run and we can hide, but we won't find the answers
If you go down, then you'll get help along the way
But if you wanna save your soul, then we could travel together
And make the devil pray
[Bridge]
Ooh, ooh, sing hallelujah
Ooh, save my soul
Ooh, ooh, the devil's here to fool ya
Until my story's told
I said ooh, ooh, sing hallelujah
Ooh, save my soul
Ooh, ooh, the devil's here to fool ya
Until my story's told
[Outro]
I said (Ooh, ooh, sing hallelujah)
(Ooh, save my soul) Sing hallelujah
(Ooh, ooh, the devil's here to fool ya)
Until my story's told
Devil Pray was written by Avicii & Arash Pournouri & Carl Falk & Rami & Savan Kotecha & Dahi & BloodPop® & Madonna.
Madonna released Devil Pray on Sat Dec 20 2014.
It’s about how people take drugs to connect to God or to a higher level of consciousness. I keep saying, “Plugging into the matrix.” If you get high, you can do that, which is why a lot of people drop acid or do drugs, because they want to get closer to God. But there’s going to be a short circuit,...
No, just sharing my experiences that there are different ways to connect to a higher level of consciousness and that it’s the devil’s trick. It is the illusion.
–via Interview Magazine (2014)
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