deify

to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power

Heard in 18 songs (5.5M+ combined views) — most famously in "Build Me Up, Break Me Down" by Dream Theater.

Updated September 23, 2026

Songs Featuring “deify

Dream Theater - Build Me Up, Break Me Down

Time: 2:18

Tonight I am the new messiah

You deify

When I'm no longer desired

Dream Theater - Build Me Up, Break Me Down

Disturbed - Deify

Time: 1:13

You're no immortal

I won't let them deify you

They view you as the new messiah

Disturbed - Deify

AFI - Strength Through Wounding

Time: 1:05

Through the light unending pain

Deify the wretched ones

'Til the darkness comes again

AFI - Strength Through Wounding

Lil Darkie - gangster rapper punk rockstar

Time: 1:07

In my mind I have a kind of fucked up, distorted image of you

Hinge on my every word and deify me like a god

I want you to forget I'm a human with many flaws

Lil Darkie - gangster rapper punk rockstar

Cannibal Corpse - Murder Worship

Time: 0:24

Closer to his grace, beyond the void of darkness

Every drop of blood, a chance to deify us

Bring is to our lord our killings transcending,

Cannibal Corpse - Murder Worship

The Dear Hunter - The Revival

Time: 3:25

Here I've helped him build a temple

To deify this czar of sin

Now who to blame but I for tying

The Dear Hunter - The Revival

Dying Fetus - Twisted Truth

Time: 1:41

And for whom you have killed

Fools are the followers of masters they deify

Conversion does not save you from death, die

Dying Fetus - Twisted Truth

Blind Guardian - Curse My Name

Time: 3:30

Falsely they praise

Deify his majesty

"He's blessed the anointed's

Blind Guardian - Curse My Name

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Crystal Morning

Time: 0:00

Cheering crowds deify their waste

Making love to their disgrace

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Crystal Morning

LL Cool J - The Vow

Time: 3:09

I'm sayin', you niggas is nothin' like me and my

You look at niggas and deify, we defy

Defeat and divide, reheat and refry

LL Cool J - The Vow

Dance Gavin Dance - Gospel Burnout

Time: 2:03

Feeding the fever whatever the cost

Wanna deify opinion

Evidence is secondary

Dance Gavin Dance - Gospel Burnout

Lokust - The Sin of Doubt

Time: 0:35

Holding onto ruin as my mind gives out

Deify the undertow

Ruthless pull of seeds still unsown

Lokust - The Sin of Doubt

Elder - Embers

Time: 1:36

Piercing right into the core

A fallen star to deify

Glowing in the morning light of all demise

Elder - Embers

Mr. Cräbs - Angst Remover

Time: 0:25

I wanna let you know that

I am sure there is no need to deify

Possessions, it's a money

Mr. Cräbs - Angst Remover

The Kyd - Sarasota Freestyle

Time: 1:51

It's a primeval side that he would hide until he picked the genre

They deify him now peevish minds need predictions altered

Take a peek inside of the crystal ball, that says it all

The Kyd - Sarasota Freestyle

Jessica Yorkin - Evermore

Time: 0:51

Realize they think they're winning

Deify their foolish prison

What I have to lose was never mine

Jessica Yorkin - Evermore

Celestaphone - Jettatura

Time: 1:19

Git suppository, shove the website up your butt

In this horror story they deify intelligence

Papers akin GNU for R Stallman: unfenced values

Celestaphone - Jettatura

Latifa Tee - Cupid

Time: 0:55

Tell me why

I got tendencies to love and deify

He said love looks not with the eyes but with the mind

Latifa Tee - Cupid