Album: Attention Attention (2018)

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• Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick up the phone
  You said it yourself you're scared of being alone
  You said it yourself that you can crack the code
  But the static you hear automatically keeps you exposed on your own
  I hope you're ready (ready), steady (steady), smashing through the levy
  The drama, the trauma, don't play the prima donna
  My god, you said it yourself that you would never stop
  Until you felt the needle drop
  
  Now you pack your bags
  The party's such a drag
  And everyone can tell that you're poisoning the well
  But there are no mistakes
  Except what you create
  You need to know your place
  
  'Cause it's about to get heavy (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  It's about to be on (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  Yeah, I'm bangin' slingin' napalm (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  So nobody move
  'Cause I was sent to warn you
  The devil's in the next room
  
  The silence, the silence
  The blinding ultra violence
  Knockin' at your door
  Pacin' back and forth
  What now? (What now?)
  The whispers and the screams
  The stereotypical profiling ritual
  Vicious and obscene
  
  So now you pack your bags
  The party's such a drag
  And everyone can tell that you're poisoning the well
  But there are no mistakes
  Except what you create
  You need to know your place
  
  'Cause it's about to get heavy (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  It's about to be on (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  Yeah, I'm bangin' slingin' napalm (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  So nobody move
  'Cause I was sent to warn you
  The devil's in the next room
  
  'Cause it's about to get heavy (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  It's about to be on (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  Yeah, I'm bangin' slingin' napalm (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  So nobody move
  'Cause I was sent to warn you
  The devil's in the next room
  
  (Heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  Yeah, the devil's in the next room (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  Yeah, the devil's in the next room (heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy)
  So nobody move
  'Cause I was sent to warn you
  The devil's right beside you Writer/s: Brent Smith, Eric Bass
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Broma 16, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

• HaleyI personally think the song “DEVIL” is about having to go to rehab.
  “ My god, you said it yourself that you would never stop
  Until you felt the needle drop
  Now you pack your bags
  The party's such a drag
  And everyone can tell that you're poisoning the well
  But there are no mistakes
  Except what you create”
• Ja’crispy from CaliforniaThis song is also featured in WWE 2K19
• James from TulsaLife is coming up against so many walls (devils); or if you will, even the culmination of your experiences (devils) and lifelong challenges (devils). Try to find your OWN peace.
• Ira from Ny"my god, you said it yourself that you would never stop
  until you felt the needle drop"
  
  From google:
  In the context of music licensing, the term "needle drop" poetically refers to that moment when music is synchronized with another work such as a TV show, a video, or a commercial.​ Each time the "needle drops" on a record, a new license is required
  
  I think instead of a literal drug reference, this means something more like.. you wont stop punishing yourself until everything in your life is perfectly synced. To go with the artist's comments.. you're going to keep hitting that brick wall until things turn out as the perfection you imagine. Until the needle drops.
  
• Jyin475 from TexasAlicia it is about overcoming all of those things the devil being in the next room could be drugs, or maybe an abuser, heck even video games. The devil is whatever is stopping someone from living a normal life really. And overcoming that devil. That’s what i get from his explanation.
• Aliciai thought the song is about someone who is addicted to something like drugs (because of the needle part) and that it is very dangerous for this person, so the devil is waiting in the next room, waiting for the person to die of the drugs. and the singer, who says that the person shall pick up their phone is worried about them, because they're scared of being alone since they might not he able to withstand the urge to take drugs. so the singer warns the person that it could be over any moment when they don't stop.
  the drugs could also be seen as something else, like cutting, or whatever the listener to the song wants.
  but Brent Smith said that it's about something else, but I don't really understand it..
  could someone explain it pls?

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