devious

scheming; indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading

Heard in 56 songs (145M+ combined views) — most famously in "Vermilion" by Slipknot.

Updated July 27, 2026

Songs Featuring “devious

Slipknot - Vermilion

Time: 0:33

Of past fatalites

So fragile yet so devious

She continues to see

Slipknot - Vermilion

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full

Time: 1:00

I need money, I used to be a stick-up kid

So I think of all the devious things I did

I used to roll up, this is a hold up, ain't nothin' funny

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full

George Michael - A Last Request (I Want Your Sex) [Remastered]

Time: 0:28

I know

It's a devious plan

But it's the only way that I know

George Michael - A Last Request (I Want Your Sex) [Remastered]

Rick Ross - Purple Lamborghini

Time: 3:00

Greed

Devious

Needs

Rick Ross - Purple Lamborghini

J. Cole - Land of the Snakes

Time: 1:26

Hey make that ass drop (Drop, drop)

Now if you only had one wish is it devious?

'Cause you already know who your genie is

J. Cole - Land of the Snakes

Beastie Boys - Triple Trouble

Time: 2:16

On a hot day with the iced latte

Devious like Wile E. Coyote

Hot to trot-e or maybe not-e

Beastie Boys - Triple Trouble

Kendrick Lamar - Opposites Attract (Tomorrow Without Her)

Time: 0:46

Why you couldn't be a con artist? Why you couldn't?

Why you couldn't be mischievous or just a lil' devious

The moment that we first started?

Kendrick Lamar - Opposites Attract (Tomorrow Without Her)

Collie Buddz - Hate to Be the One

Time: 0:46

She's the type of crook

Call it kiss and run, the most devious of looks

And she don't really care

Collie Buddz - Hate to Be the One

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Polka Power!

Time: 3:24

Who's that lounging in my chair

Who's that casting devious stares in my direction

Mama, this surely is a dream

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Polka Power!

Nas - Life We Chose

Time: 1:39

And you've got money, is these hoes greedy or what?

Shit is devious, ex-friends wantin' you stuck

It's the life we chose, where friends become foes

Nas - Life We Chose

The Roots - Birthday Girl

Time: 0:36

Backstage in high heels and painted on jeans

Probably had the most devious eyes I'd ever seen

Told me she was twenty-two she was only seventeen

The Roots - Birthday Girl

Joey Bada$$ - What's Understood

Time: 2:58

Don't share my business with social media

Niggas devious, they can't eat with us

Went around starting fake beef with us

Joey Bada$$ - What's Understood

Mark Knopfler - Cleaning My Gun

Time: 0:35

Blarney and Malarkey, they're a devious firm

Take you to the cleaners and let you burn

Mark Knopfler - Cleaning My Gun

Jeezy - Rap Game

Time: 1:08

Dream was to turn my whole block into a CVS

Can't trust them broads around the way, them bitches devious

Drop it in, watch it make a circle like a DVD

Jeezy - Rap Game

Slayer - Crypts of Eternity

Time: 1:08

Devious to those unknown, he walks below the land

Alluring victims to their death, perish to the sand

Slayer - Crypts of Eternity

The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode [Beat Edit]

Time: 0:48

He's ever so good, he's Ebeneezer Goode

You can see that he's mischievous, mysterious and devious

As he circulates amongst the people in the place

The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode [Beat Edit]

Disturbed - Innocence

Time: 0:50

Embrace their lies

And their devious smiles

Your corruption is like a cancer growing inside

Disturbed - Innocence

Tiggs Da Author - Good Luck Chale

Time: 1:31

You ain't real you can't munch no jollof with us

I know my nigga P planning something devious

And the other P looking like a walking VVS

Tiggs Da Author - Good Luck Chale

Tech N9ne - Get Blowed

Time: 3:37

So go soke in ya pity you mo smokin slut

Greed another devious seed

Nigga role nigga dont you know

Tech N9ne - Get Blowed

Joe - Dear Joe

Time: 0:52

"Dear Joe, baby I'm gone"

Would you love me and leave me 'cause you planned it so devious

Thought you were bringing your love back instead it's

Joe - Dear Joe

Roger Waters - Part Of Me Died

Time: 0:25

The part that is envious, cold-hearted and devious

Greedy, mischievous, global, colonial

Roger Waters - Part Of Me Died

Helloween - Under The Moonlight

Time: 0:17

Give me riches give me fame

I say it's a devious game

Lots'a bitching gone insane

Helloween - Under The Moonlight

Eazy-E - Neighborhood Sniper

Time: 2:00

And simply scared the bitch, boo

Being the E ya know I'm thinkin' devious thoughts

Take off ya clothes nigga and here comes a plot

Eazy-E - Neighborhood Sniper

Das EFX - Undaground Rappa

Time: 2:40

Verse 3: Dray, Skoob

I be the devious, mischevious kid believe-me-est

Not the move to rip cos in a drip I freaks the sleaziest

Das EFX - Undaground Rappa

Brotha Lynch Hung - Can I Have a Napkin?

Time: 1:15

Poisonous, get your boys and this, I'll take 'em by the dozen

Nigga I get devious, that was my little cousin

Nigga I'm just sick in the head, you thought I wasn't?

Brotha Lynch Hung - Can I Have a Napkin?

Mariah Carey - You Had Your Chance

Time: 1:53

And now my eyes are open and I can see

You were devious and shady, only trifling with me

We used to be close, but you didn't love me

Mariah Carey - You Had Your Chance

Manchester Orchestra - Mighty

Time: 2:43

Let go of the ones you admire

It's not like I was devious or boastful

My arms waving, I'm saying goodbye

Manchester Orchestra - Mighty

Mayhem - Dark Night of the Soul

Time: 0:54

Collect the power of my dreams

Cast by the devious fire demons

A thousand whorish tongues

Mayhem - Dark Night of the Soul

Alexisonfire - Old Crows

Time: 0:59

As frigid as, the cold wind can blow

As devious as the devil's grin

Our blood is cold as we shed our skin now

Alexisonfire - Old Crows

G Herbo - Outside Looking In

Time: 0:54

He was always labeled cool, he was always good in school

But he mastered bein' devious, didn't like to follow rules

Used to hang with older cousins, they was like his sisters, brothers

G Herbo - Outside Looking In

The Rolling Stones - So Divine (Aladdin Story)

Time: 0:18

Control me with your devious pain

The Rolling Stones - So Divine (Aladdin Story)

Dry Cleaning - Her Hippo

Time: 2:38

I'm a devious snake and I keep it in my wig room

Well

Dry Cleaning - Her Hippo

P.O.D. - When Angels & Serpents Dance [2022 Remix Remaster]

Time: 0:14

Go unsteadily sliding

Devious gliding

So beautifully sailing and floating on

P.O.D. - When Angels & Serpents Dance [2022 Remix Remaster]

311 - Better Space

Time: 0:53

That's how it's destined to be

Coin devious loin

Capricious desoin

311 - Better Space

Squeeze - Piccadilly

Time: 1:38

The invite of eyes made it tense but relaxed me,

My mind took a devious role.

The cab took us home through a night I'd not noticed

Squeeze - Piccadilly

Naughty by Nature - Respect Due

Time: 0:42

Your girl's punani's packed like the freaknik

We get redicu-down-diculous and devious, believe me, bitch

Now your fuckin' soul ain't so mischievous

Naughty by Nature - Respect Due

Pharoahe Monch - Let My People Go

Time: 0:33

We need a leader who is not mischievous

Devious from Satan's grip he'll lead us

Walk with track, the fact are actracecious

Pharoahe Monch - Let My People Go

Snoop Dogg - Paper'd Up [Clean Album Version]

Time: 1:15

I need money, I used to see a stick-up kid

So I think of all the devious things I did

I used to roll up, this is a hold up, ain't nuttin funny

Snoop Dogg - Paper'd Up [Clean Album Version]

G-Eazy - Anxiety

Time: 1:01

Not your ex, I'm not your previous

I'm on demon time, I move devious

What else you expect from a Gemini who's a genius?

G-Eazy - Anxiety

A Change of Pace - I Wanna Be Your Rock and Roll

Time: 0:39

Just put him out of his misery

Take me for a ride through devious eyes

And when I wake up tomorrow

A Change of Pace - I Wanna Be Your Rock and Roll

Wale - The Perfect Plan

Time: 0:00

It's the perfect plan

So inspired, so devious yet so simple

This is what I do

Wale - The Perfect Plan

Kaskade - obvious

Time: 0:00

Swear you calm me in some way

Your words have never been so devious

The way you lay your hands on me

Kaskade - obvious

Therion - Pledging Loyalty

Time: 1:29

I am Apollonius

Insincere and devious

Showing who I am

Therion - Pledging Loyalty

The Donnas - Wasted

Time: 0:11

I can't sleep can't even breathe

you're a devious distraction

when you put your hands on me

The Donnas - Wasted

Bulletboys - Laughing With the Dead

Time: 0:40

With a sparkling gleam in their eyes

Above apologizing for our devious ways

I've taken a word from the wise

Bulletboys - Laughing With the Dead

Third Eye Blind - Darkness

Time: 0:24

The cops pull out the radar

And shoot devious grins

Another day begins

Third Eye Blind - Darkness

Sick of It All - 2061

Time: 1:06

worked to great effect

Devious new mind control

Turned the whole world on its head

Sick of It All - 2061

Republica - Pretty Girl Hate

Time: 1:36

She lets the rumours fly

She's got a devious mind

Attitude, bitter fruit

Republica - Pretty Girl Hate

Maroon 5 - Sex and Candy

Time: 0:48

Who's that loungin' in my chair?

Who's that castin' devious stares in my direction?

Mama, this surely is a dream, yeah

Maroon 5 - Sex and Candy

Steve Mason - Brothers & Sisters

Time: 3:18

Brothers and sisters, pump up the volume

Now we must get devious (pump up the volume)

Use the tactics used on us (pump up the volume)

Steve Mason - Brothers & Sisters

Mike + the Mechanics - Always listen to your heart

Time: 1:12

The way to point your feet

Life, sometimes devious

Can fool you with deceit

Mike + the Mechanics - Always listen to your heart

Opeth - Bleak

Time: 3:20

Devious movements in your eyes

Moved me from relief

Opeth - Bleak

Hellyeah - Pole Rider

Time: 0:15

She got a chip on her shoulder,

A devious little thing

She knows how to get what she wants,

Hellyeah - Pole Rider

Al Stewart - Valentina Way

Time: 1:40

Maybe caught the night express

She's got devious lies

And chameleon eyes

Al Stewart - Valentina Way

King Sun - Snakes

Time: 0:36

(SNAKE) A snake is a snake, 'cause they're phony and

(SNAKE) Devious

(SNAKE) The wicked

King Sun - Snakes

Joe Louis Walker - Count Your Chickens

Time: 0:18

You and your dog been trying to make a fool outta me

You got your voodoo dolls and your needles and your devious schemes

Go count your chickens, dear

Joe Louis Walker - Count Your Chickens