BEN (2023)












 

CHANT lyrics - Macklemore (feat. Tones And I)

 [Macklemore:]

They told me that I vanished

They told me that I had it

They told me that I'm gone

I told 'em, "Don't panic"

When you've done it this long

And you've seen magic

And you know it won't kill you

Even when the whole world doubts it

This is my moment

They can't take my talent

They can't take my stripes

They can't erase my hours

I'm from the underground, anything above ground is a mountain

I'm done tryna impress anybody, but the heavens where I'm headed

You don't get to hold on me your flowers


I am in my zone, eyes on the throne

20k deep, better pull out your phones

Turning the arena to believers every time I hit the ceiling

Ain't nobody ever touching my show

Look at where we started, look at where we got to

Almost OD'd that night in the hospital

Wasn't gonna die, more life in the arsenal

Got another shot to pull off the impossible


[Tones And I:]

There's no need to cry for me, I'm a fighter

Fighter

You can't take my voice from me, I will rise up

Rise up

So what are you waiting for?

I ain't ready to die yet

The pain is where faith is born

Are you alive yet?

Are you alive yet?

Are you alive?


[Macklemore:]

On my grave, what quote will be etched in?

Never played the game to be a contestant

Never joined the league to ride benches

The wins hit different when they don't expect it

Yeah, and they ain't gotta like me

Got my own Nikes, no Nike ID

And I ain't trying to stunt, man

But my logo went over the Jumpman

I remember, all I had was a bus pass

Sellin' CDs to make a couple of bucks back

And now I'm up in meetings and you better believe me

Now that we got the arena, The Sonics makin' a comeback

I'm not a businessman, I got children, man

I treat my city like it is my fam

'Til the residency gets a buildin' man

Think I'm playin' 'bout mayor, but that is my plan

You know what fifty thousand feels like

When you question, "Is this real life?"

The money doesn't buy happiness, that's facts

'Til you take what you made and decide to give it back like that


[Tones And I:]

There's no need to cry for me, I'm a fighter

Fighter

You can't take my voice from me, I will rise up

Rise up

So what are you waiting for?

I ain't ready to die yet

The pain is where faith is born

Are you alive yet?

Are you alive yet?

Are you alive?


[Macklemore:]

I was supposed to be a one hit ringer

Now I got too many rings and not enough fingers

Keep doing my thing, they keep chasing the wave

Thinking that they're gonna be the one to outpace age

I must got Mick Jagger DNA

Rolling Stone bags, pre-check, no TSA

I'll be seventy-eight, SM58 in my face

Like, "Who wants to go next?" Nobody's touchin' my stage

Their heads trippin' like a B-Boy head spinnin'

I bench press the industry and I deadlift it

It's been written, I've been runnin', it's been a minute

Been done it, I bet you a hundred that I've been winning

The Benz tinted, it's been vintage, yeah, Ben did it

The crib I live in is like Ben Stiller's

An evening at my house, a night at the museum

Trophies, plaques all over and the view's decent

At the end of the day, it's like, "Who needs it?"

Play on, player, I gotta keep competin'

Keep dreamin', won't settle for shit

It isn't sport, it's my life, run the championship, I'm gone


[Tones And I:]

There's no need to cry for me, I'm a fighter

Fighter

You can't take my voice from me, I will rise up

Rise up

So what are you waiting for?

I ain't ready to die yet

The pain is where faith is born

Are you alive yet?

Are you alive yet?

Are you alive?

Are you alive?

Are you alive?

NO BAD DAYS lyrics - Macklemore (feat. Collett)

 No bad days, yeah


I think that I'm lucky, I don't got it made

Everything I got could fit inside a suitcase, yeah

They could try to make me quit, yeah

Stay in your lane, you ain't on my road trip and

It's kind of funny, people throwing shade

I'm just doing me, I don't got no bad days, yeah

They could try to make me quit, yeah

Stay in your lane, yeah, we off that bullshit


Top back, '85, that's the way we like to drive

Doing donuts all the neighbors know us, yeah, we outside

Look alive, the freaks of the city, they come out at night

Fuck a line, Fab Five Freddy, 1989


Time to show off

I'm so Warhol

So sophisticated

Life is bitching, baby

Velvet rope, I'm ducking

Looking regal when I come in

And the peacoat, it's so London

I'll be leaving with a duchess, ah

New city, fuck it up (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

Here for one night, stay a month (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

Spent my whole life on a bus (Yeah, yeah, yeah)

Show time, run it up


Nobody want to say "Goodbye"

We just want to stay up, that's right

Don't got to say "Goodnight"

If you never wake up (Yeah, yeah, yeah)


I think that I'm lucky, I don't got it made

Everything I got could fit inside a suitcase, yeah

They could try to make me quit, yeah

Stay in your lane, you ain't on my road trip and

It's kind of funny, people throwing shade

I'm just doing me, I don't got no bad days, yeah

They could try to make me quit, yeah

Stay in your lane, yeah, we off that bullshit


Truck stop, gas station, always up to something

Highway 99 and we getting money

Desk job, cubical, nah, it wasn't for me

Rather crash and burn, go hella hard and live to tell my story

Bon fires

Running around the woods, you know we pulling all nighters

And I'm a dreamer with my people, bunch of songwriters

Oh yeah, we up now, sun down

Karaoke singing oldies out at some lounge


Nobody want to say "Goodbye"

We just want to stay up, that's right

Don't got to say "Goodnight"

If you never wake up (Yeah, yeah, yeah)


I think that I'm lucky, I don't got it made

Everything I got could fit inside a suitcase, yeah

They could try to make me quit, yeah

Stay in your lane, you ain't on my road trip and

It's kind of funny, people throwing shade

I'm just doing me, I don't got no bad days, yeah

They could try to make me quit, yeah

Stay in your lane, yeah, we off that bullshit


Wee ohh

Wee ohh

Wee ohh

Wee ohh

1984 lyrics - Macklemore

 Standing in line

Standing in line

As we wait outside

Waiting outside

The rush, the high

The dance floor's open waiting for us to collide

We are king, we are queen

We are king, we are queen

We are living a dream

Living a dream

This is not what it seems

This is ours for the taking

You are the lady for me


And we've seen it all before

Sweat falls down to the floor

Tonight I'm all yours

Let's live like it's 1984


Baby, give me the green light

Don't you break my heart

Your love is a freeway

I want to ride it to the stars

I want to do this forever

You dancing in my arms

Always be yours

Just me and you on the floor

Like it's 1984


Pretty woman in a white dress

Feel like I'm drowning, need a life vest

Overdramatic, overreactive, nah, nah

You make me manic, you make me panic

And I said, "Big hair, don't care"

Dance like nobody else here, hell yeah


You're mine tonight

Heaven in those eyes

We won't die

Let the DJ guide the night


And we've seen it all before

Sweat falls down to the floor

Tonight I'm all yours

Let's live like it's 1984


Baby give me the green light

Don't you break my heart

Your love is a freeway

I want to ride it to the stars

I want to do this forever

You dancing in my arms

Always be yours

Just me and you on the floor

Like it's 1984

Like it's 1984

Like it's 1984


Fire burning in my soul

I don't want to be alone tonight

Meet me in the sky

I want to take you home

Or anywhere you want to go tonight

We're running out of time

1984


Baby give me the green light

Don't you break my heart

Your love is a freeway

I want to ride it to the stars

I want to do this forever

You dancing in my arms

Always be yours

Just me and you on the floor

Like it's 1984

Like it's 1984

Like it's 1984

MANIAC lyrics - Macklemore (feat. Windser)

 I don't wanna dance with a maniac

'Cause the moment we touch, it's a heart attack

You know I love you, honey, but you got me running, yeah

I could give a damn, you're a maniac

And you're talking like a killer, got me on my back

You know I love you, honey, but you got me running, yeah


I fell in love with her moonwalk

Dancin' in the kitchen in her tube socks

I should've saw the signs, but refused, dawg

How am I supposed to ever move on?

Why is this so complicated?

You said that you didn't love me

Said you workin' on yourself

You ain't been to therapy since 2020

Somethin' isn't right, see it in your eyes

Always give advice, never takin' mine

When I say goodnight, I'm thinkin'


Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

You get on my nerves, I'm a foo-ooh-ooh-ool

You better reimburse all the things you do-ooh-ohh

Put me in a hearse we're both coo-coo, coo-coo

It's never gonna work


I don't wanna dance with a maniac

'Cause the moment we touch, it's a heart attack

You know I love you, honey, but you got me running, yeah

I could give a damn, you're a maniac

And you're talking like a killer, got me on my back

You know I love you, honey, but you got me running, yeah


I think we need some space, I think we need a break

I think I need to move, I think this isn't safe

Why the hell you follow me to Walmart?

Gotta know everything, you ain't Nardwuar

Dress up on Friday nights, turn up 'til Sunday morning

I'm mister-probably-right, ignoring all the warnings

I shouldn't wanna kick it, too many red flags

I knew you were problematic, 'cause all of your exes are mad

Somehow I'm back in your arms, told you, "Get back in my car"

I know you don't really love me, you deserve actin' awards

As long as the night is young, go crazy, I got your back

I'll be posted by the jukebox watching you dance

Thinkin'


Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

You get on my nerves, I'm a foo-ooh-ooh-ool

You better reimburse all the things you do-ooh-ohh

Keep me down to Earth, we're both coo-coo, coo-coo

But somehow it works

Let's go


I don't wanna dance with a maniac

'Cause the moment we touch, it's a heart attack

You know I love you, honey, but you got me running, yeah

I could give a damn, you're a maniac

And you're talking like a killer, got me on my back

You know I love you, honey, but you got me running, yeah


I don't wanna dance with a maniac

'Cause the moment we touch, it's a heart attack

You know I love you, honey, but you got me running, yeah


DAY YOU DIE lyrics - Macklemore (feat. Sarah Barthel of Phantogram)

 [Sarah Barthel:]

If you knew the day that you would die

Pack your bags and tell your friends one last goodbye

Would you give up all the blame?

Would you fuck and fight the same?

If you knew the day that you would die


[Macklemore:]

I made some mistakes, some mistakes, yeah, fuck it

Those ones made me great, made me great when I kicked the bucket, yeah

Know I might be late, might be late, but I'm comin'

Walk through Heaven's gate with a tux like, "What's uppers?"

I was left feelin' unusual

They gon' have some stories at my funeral

Never got accepted into music school

But look what I did with music, fool, ayy

We all gon' die, all gon' die, left some ripples in the tide

I had a pit bull in my mind and I trained him over time

Take off the fuckin' leash and go and walk around outside

And realize nothing's permanent 'cept birth and death and find some gratitude

Between the two of them, a Gemini, two sides

Cadillac two-tone hearse pulls me down I-5

God callin' me home, I can't leave nothing behind

Life one hell of a ride, we ain't gettin' out alive


[Sarah Barthel:]

If you knew the day that you would die

Pack your bags and tell your friends one last goodbye

Would you give up all the blame?

Would you fuck and fight the same?

If you knew the day that you would die


[Macklemore:]

Bright lights, big city dreams

Sunglasses at night, I'ma wear them to sleep

Climb the high rocks, hang from the scaffolding

If I fall, then I fall, fuck it, they'll remember me

I got thirty thousand steps 'til my death ('Til my death)

Less than twenty thousand breaths in me left (In me left)

And if this the last night that I get (That I get)

Then I already spent my regrets (No regrets)

Run that motherfuckin' tab, tell the teller fill the bag

Fuck a mask, I'ma throw all of this cash on the ave

Get my Mercedes keys, put 'em in a stranger's hands

Whisper to him, "Live fast and enjoy it while you can"

This is now, screamin' from my lungs, you can hear my howl

Taste the blood drippin' off my tongue, yeah, it's goin' down

Headed up, loved ones only got a couple hours

To the world, bon voyage, say my vows and I'm out like


[Sarah Barthel:]

If you knew the day that you would die

Pack your bags and tell your friends one last goodbye

Would you give up all the blame?

Would you fuck and fight the same?

If you knew the day that you would die

HEROES lyrics - Macklemore (feat. DJ Premier)

 [Macklemore:]

Alright, alright

Nah, nah


When I grew up, criminal were my heroes

The beanie from New Jersey Drive over my earlobes

From jump, it was always fuck cops and the bureau

Mix of Casper, Harold, Hunter, and De Niro

Now I'm with my kids and we watchin' Olaf

And I'm like, "Damn, used to wanna be like O'Dawg"

Tuck the Deuce Deuce under the goose, boostin' y'all

Couple screws loose, cashier turns, poof, I'm gone

Seven, I heard NWA in the street

From my older neighbor who was playin' "Fuck tha Police"

Eleven, writin' graffiti, fifteen, I'm sellin' weed

By sixteen, I had an MPC

(It was Hip Hop's fault) That I wanted to grow up

Sell drugs, smoke, drink Mad Dog and fuck

Wanted a windbreaker and some Eastbay kicks

Wanted a perm like DJ Quik

My mama said, "Ben, are you aware your hair is way too thin?"

But in my mind, I was Junior High Iceberg Slim

Feelin' fine, gettin' high, spendin' time with a bitch

Takin' Heineken sips, this is live as it gets, shit

But me, man, I wanted to be a vandal

Wanted to kick it with the people livin' in the bando

On Third and James by the fountain where they panhandle

Runnin' from the cops, pullin' scandals, those where my heroes


[DJ Premier:]

Pick up the mic, put your money where your mouth is

Doin' petty crimes, back in the days

Too much OE, tipsy off the whiskey

Pick up the, the, the, the mic, the, the, the mic

Put your money where your mouth is

Doin' petty crimes, back in the days

Drink it, smoke it, my clique is too great


[Macklemore:]

Back in the days, at the Boulevard on Broadway

Before the downtown turned to a big All Saints

I was rollin' 'round with the forty-ounce of malt drink

Posted up in front of the 7-Eleven all day

My heroes didn't look yours

My heroes didn't look yours, nah, nah

They didn't work a nine-to-five, they worked a five-to-four

Woke up at three and recordin' more

See, my heroes died of overdoses, ridin' for the culture

Mind tied to psychosis, all the lies in show biz

My heroes shot dope and inhaled blow in their noses

Got locked up, got out, and did some more shit

I got that devil in me and a bunch of Henny with me

And we fuck up any city, heavy hitting, any innings

Steal the pancakes off your plate and then I'm robbin' you at Denny's

In a Plymouth that is tinted and the sherm has got me spinning

You don't want it with this, put the truck in his ribs

We don't fight fair, fuck that, we jump and get our licks

Reds and whites flash through the dash, hop the fence

Wake up, smoke a blunt, hit the park and do it again

For my heroes


[DJ Premier:]

Pick up the mic, put your money where your mouth is

Doin' petty crimes, back in the days

Too much OE, tipsy off the whiskey

Pick up, pick up, pick up the mic

Put your money where your mouth is

Doin' petty crimes, back in the days

Drink it, smoke it, my clique is too great

GRIME lyrics - Macklemore

 Ah, nah-nah

Ah, nah-nah


Well, I'm an alleycat, some say, "A dirty rat"

On my side, is my gat, but I'm lyin' 'bout that

Still bumpin' Buckshot

Trench coat, all in matte black

Hat with the curls bangin' right out the back

Facts, I dive in

Open eyelids, fuck a silence

Big pharma, rest in piss, and get the Heisman

Look in my iris, see the trips where I been

Anti pill bottle, pro psilocybin

Still buyin' bootleg Gucci from China

Donate most but still throw it on consignment

Red carpet, Jeff Goldblum's behind us

And they ain't got a clue that these ain't real diamonds


Don't turn me back to the old me

Backpack, rappin' and battlin' back in Oly

I was studyin' the Carter one right after '03

Marinara, brick oven on the terrace, with the goat cheese

You flatbread from Panera, don't approach me

Coasting

David Blaine on that beat, floating

OGs, don't make a mothafucker OD

That outfit, that's a "No" for me

If you gonna to do drugs, I can suggest some

But I wouldn't spend that much of your money on Codeine

I ain't judgin', enjoy your life

But that shit is killin' people and it's overpriced

Hit the club, get the bag

Man, I know that's right

But let me teach you youngbloods how to hold the mic, I'm older, right?

Never had a poltergeist and still slap a rapper like a white Dolemite, ah


I black out, stage dive right into the crowd

I never tap out, and I ain't workin' for a fucking suit, so don't ask now

That's why I always speak my mind and never back down

Since Pac was behind Shock, up in the background

Shh, shh, shh, watch the cops

Started to rap because I cannot pop and lock

Went from sellin' Nicks in a knot in my sock

To sellin' out arenas where the Knicks throw up shots


Goddamn, that's a hell of a come up

European festival money, that's a hell of a summer

I remember they were sayin' I'd be a one-hit wonder

Forty platinum later, boy, they were wrong 'bout the number, nah-nah

I'm so focused, the pen is so potent

The beachfront look like I own the whole ocean

Pull up in that, skrrt skrrt, the door opens

The mink coat, draggin' on the floor, I ain't even notice

These rappers so emotive

Grown men emoji

Face cryin' all on their socials

And I ain't hatin', I guess I'm just old school

We suppress feelings and scrapped right after homeroom

Old gold, OJ, and some cold shrooms

20 ounce of Faygo to go with the soul food

Look what I made off of Protools

Still remind pops, "Awe, man, yeah, I told you"


Ooh-wee

I NEED lyrics - Macklemore

 I need two bad bitches and a bag of good weed

Need an 80 inch screen, that's a big TV

I need Addies to stay up, I need Xannies to get sleep

God, give me drugs, all the lean that I can drink


All my haters, suck a dick, rest in peace

And to all the opposition you can come and get me

When I finally do some good, I need everyone to see

But please, I need you to pray for me

Had two whips, put them on gold D's

Saw Lil Baby's, I went and bought 3

Can't fly commercial, that shit ain't luxury

I need duffles, duffles, Louis, Gucci, and Balency

I need shoes, shoes, all 23

Fill the closet, buy them all and I don't even wear these

I need a necklace, I need watches, I need bezels, I need wallets

Need my diamonds to be flawless, matching no canaries

I need more, more, I'll pay whatever fee

Put me on a billboard, face on every magazine

I want it all, run it up, what the fuck is wrong with me?

'Cause I got everything and I still ain't happy


I got everything I need

So why am I falling to my knees?

I got racks on me, money ain't a thing

All I really want is to be free

Look at me, I got everything I need


So why am I falling to my knees?

I got racks on me, money ain't a thing

All I really want is to be free

Look at me

Look at me


I need a new hairline, I need better abs

My girl a Burkin bag, then BBL her ass

All the homies jealous, I can't trust none of them

So I cut my day ones off like fuck it, keep them coming

I need all new friends, they gotta be famous

Showing everybody that I really fucking made it

I need a new girl, she gotta be a model

Or a rapper, or a actor, or a fucking TikTok-er

But we need to breakup, we need to make it public

I'm going to call her a slut, make a track, "Fuck that dumb bitch"

And I need to rent a yacht, need to go to Miami

Move to Calabasas, get a private bowling alley

And I don't even bowl, but I'ma make a statement

Fuck you mean? I'm going to say it

I need to be the favorite

Saw the NBA players and I'm on Obama's playlist

Fuck a top 5, fuck them all, yep, I'm the greatest

I need love, love, I'm making history

I need paparazzi popping pictures every place I be

I want it all, want it all

The American dream

I got everything and I still ain't happy


I got everything I need

So why am I falling to my knees?

I got racks on me, money ain't a thing

All I really want is to be free

Look at me, I got everything I need


So why am I falling to my knees?

I got racks on me, money ain't a thing

All I really want is to be free

Look at me

Look at me


I want to be seen, I want to be loved

I want to be felt, don't want to be judged

I need some healing 'cause I cannot feel it, so pour up another double cup of mud

I do not know who the hell I am, done so many drugs I lost who I was

Every person I let in my circle is secretly lurking and out for blood

I got 40 thousand tucked under my mattress

And a ratchet in case anyone'll figure out the address

Security system in my attic, staring at it

I'm still flexing on the 'Gram just to show 'em that I have it

That's the fucking price of fame

Ain't never going backwards

But none of this is working, where's the purpose in this palace?

Pop a perc 30, girls twerking, just another purchase

Spiritually sick, I didn't even know I was malnourished

Everything is desolate

Botox my forehead, they can't see how stressed I am

Everything I ever wanted, the trinity

Money, power, respect

In the end were the three things that lead me to death

LOST / SUN COMES UP lyrics - Macklemore (feat. jackson lee morgan)

 I wonder what celebrities will tweet "R.I.P."

When it's announced that I'm dead on TMZ

Bury me with a million likes

And put me in the algorithm like a million times

Across the table from my girl and don't look in her eyes

She's got to compete with me looking at these other lies

Uh oh

What I would trade for the dollar sign

Tag me so I can be happy, get a follow, guys, like and subscribe

I don't need Funk Flex to drop a bomb on this

I need some influencers on TikTok, you bitch

I made a whole ass album, I worked hard on it

Fifteen tracks, we don't last fifteen seconds

We got A.D.D. and if it's passed that we exit

We just stare at memes, laugh, and we hit the next one

And our self esteem is so messed up and threatened

By other people's means and their perceived successes

The likes ain't hitting like they used to

Texting while I'm driving and I can't connect to Bluetooth

Tell me to engage, post more to get the views, dude

Keep up with the new dudes

You really need a news crew just to trend on YouTube

We're obsessed with our public image

More than staying connected to our fucking spirit

And if you listen nowadays, you can fucking hear it

Same drums, same melodies, and fuck the lyrics


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That's the dance now

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Lost, bum bum ba dum bum

Lost, bum bum ba dum bum

Lost, bum bum ba dum bum

Lost, bum bum ba dum bum


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That's the dance now


It's getting darker outside

These insomnia nights

So call me in the morning when the light wakes up

Let me know I'm alright

My million mile an hour mind

Let's my insecurities drive

So call me in the morning when the light wakes up

Let me know I'm alright


Been trying to fill that void

I been trying to purchase joy

I been trying to fill the space inside

Quiet the noise

My friends dying off those opioids

So say a couple Hail Marys for my friends

The ones reaching for Heaven but never got in

I wake up and say a couple prayers under my breath

And then I get on my phone and check all my DMs

Like, what kind of life is this?

Looking up the ladder and I'm wondering how high it is

If I only had this and that I'd be alright again

Social status and all of the power in the fight against

Feeling like my life ain't shit

Looking in the mirror, like, what happened to us?

Got distracted, acting like, maybe I could buy love

The lies the mind weaves as we run through the mud

Thinking that who I am today isn't enough, fill the void


It's getting darker outside

These insomnia nights

So call me in the morning when the light wakes up

Let me know I'm alright

My million mile an hour mind

Let's my insecurities drive

So call me in the morning when the light wakes up

Let me know I'm alright


Ooh ooh ooh

Ooh ooh I'm alright

Ooh ooh ooh

Ooh ooh I'm alright

FAITHFUL lyrics - Macklemore (feat. NLE Choppa)

 Feel like I'm running out of time

And the sun won't shine forever, forever

I got my mind on my money

And my money man fuck it whatever, whatever

Sometimes I wake up on the wrong side

I don't even feel like getting up

With this depression on my brain

Hope it change but the rain ain't letting up


Can't call it, don't know where my head is

Reflecting on Malcolm, and the shit I thought but never said it

To Peter, Robin, to Kevin... all my other friendships

That could have, would have, should have and then they ended

I isolate between happiness and hopeless

Know what makes it worse? Still wanna get loaded

Sometimes I feel like I can't control my choices

And something takes over and I can't turn off the voices

Sitting with these thoughts can't escape 'em, can't run

Got some bullets in the dresser as I polish my... gun

They say that a day clean is a day won

But I'm holding on, praying to a God abandoned

Zoning on the couch, staring at my daughters

Know there's a pill in this house that I'm obsessing about popping

Reservations talking, the push and pull of the conscience

Should probably pick up the phone and call my sponsor but don't wanna

When the percs don't work, zannys won't calm you down

Not enough liquor in the bar weed grown in the ground

Trapped by these walls where my brain can't get out

Wondering if my mama have to put her son in the ground


We still going when the day break

Me and the homies on the same page

Find me in the whip, that's my safe place

Feel like I'm getting weak, I need some AA

Need someone to pray for my soul right now

Everything's looking gray, and there's no white clouds

I don't what to say, I got nothing to write down

On my knees questioning God, like why now?

I'm lost, but I'm found again


I'm up all night, I toss and turn

I love my life, I got concerns

I've been through hell, on some FML

It's just as well, I might lose it

I need some light, I need some air

I might be broken, I need repair

Don't got the answers, think I'm confused

I ask myself: who are you?


I need you right now Mack to wake up more than ever

Ain't no more weed, alcohol, and popping pills, et cetera

I know these days gettin' rough but they get better

It's a cold world, let's go to the Gucci store for a sweater

Feel it deeply in my heart you need this letter

So I pour my feelings out to you before I go and mail it

I don't know what I'm sensing, but I can smell it

When you write me back just tell it

I'ma soak it up, inhale it

Heard you got a daughter, well I got one too

And she too beautiful, barely see her too

Do you hug her and tie her shoes?

Is she reflecting of you?

And got a smile that bloom?

Before you load that gun and shoot

Just know that she be needing you

The best version of you too

I would write more but my day about to break

We can meet up face to face

Just let me know if that's ok


We still going when the day break

Me and the homies on the same page

Find me in the whip, that's my safe place

Feel like I'm getting weak, I need some AA

Need someone to pray for my soul right now

Everything's looking gray, and there's no white clouds

I don't what to say, I got nothing to write down

On my knees questioning God, like why now?

I'm lost, but I'm found again

TEARS lyrics - Macklemore

 It's like

I met you at my parent's house when I was 14

Seen you my whole life but never got to me

You'd always post in the kitchen

I knew the shelf you lived in

Above where the fridge is, but we never kicked it

Finally I decided to pull you down

Had Pac in the background, pulled the shot glasses out

Grabbed you by your neck even though we just met

Held you close, felt the fire burn my throat

Warmth like the Holy Ghost


I remember thinking, "Is this real life?"

I had two and wondered what four more would feel like

Predisposed to having an obsession

Codependent before we even had a friendship

Had a dozen of you, already loved you, I couldn't stop

Got on the metro stumbling to 3rd and Pine block

Hit the Micky D's, puked all over the restaurant

Our first date was already running from the cops


I ride with you, lie for you

My tried and true, love I never knew

It kills me to think of a life without you

But sometimes I wonder if you want me to die too


In highschool our relationship was abusive

Addicted to being together, couldn't control my usage

We pass out together on a stranger's lawn

Woke up in a random car too gone to make it to my own prom

But I had to have you even though we'd pass out in bathrooms

Take a month off to show myself

I know myself, don't need no help

Forget the pain, pouring rain

Brown bag full of guilt and shame


Mistress controlling my head

Getting arrested, not remembering anything that I said

And I knew then that I should've left

And I could see if I didn't leave

You'd lead me to death but


I ride with you, lie for you

My tried and true, love I never knew

It kills me to think of a life without you

But sometimes I wonder if you want me to die too


Bitch, you killed my uncle, you're fucking trouble

Socially acceptable and oh, so subtle

You ruined my life and I fucking loved you

Promised relief and left me with a rusty shovel

And some busted rubble

Pieces of my life that you destroyed was once freedom and joy

Was now depression, being unemployed

And I knew I had to change it and face it

And checked into rehab

And 28 days later I remembered who I really was

I remembered where I'm really from

I remembered the beauty of the present moment

That you only get when you connect to the Creator

And the breath inside the chest that fully fills your lungs

I found the people with the same allergy

And what I thought was love was really just my disease

I always thought the problem was you and couldn't believe

When I learned that the whole time my issue was me


I ride with you, lie for you

My tried and true, love I never knew

It kills me to think of a life without you

But sometimes I wonder if you want me to die too


I ride with you, lie for you

My tried and true, love I never knew

It kills me to think of a life without you

But sometimes I wonder if you want me to die too

SORRY lyrics - Macklemore (feat. Livingston)

 It's too late to get the past back

But I'm stuck in the sandtraps

And I thought that I was past that

My eyelids live in a flashback

And I can't heal your trauma

I even said sorry to your mama

But am I the type

The type of man that I want for my daughters?


Don't lose me now

Hold my hand like the first time outside my house

When life was just a couple miles

Me and you, the world was ours

I never meant to steal your smile

Fill your heart with fear and doubt

I rerun those empty vows

I play the tape and I watch for hours


I won't give up on you

If you won't give up on we

I can't live without you

I hope that you feel the same about me


And I feel lost, I feel safe, all at once

And I'm so tired, feel so angry at the world

Oh-oh, do the best I can and when I mess it up

I say "I'm sorry"

Oh-oh, when I lose control and make you feel so bad

I say "I'm sorry"


I made a list of all the reasons why I think that you should stay

And at the top I said, "I promise I'll get better someday," yeah

But all these Sundays turn to Mondays

Empty promises grow cold

What if someday turns to one day

You get sick of me and go?


I won't give up on you

If you won't give up on we

I can't live without you

I hope that you feel the same about me


And I feel lost, I feel safe, all at once

And I'm so tired, feel so angry at the world

Oh-oh, do the best I can and when I mess it up

I say "I'm sorry"

Oh-oh, when I lose control and make you feel so bad

I say "I'm sorry"


Oh-oh, do the best I can and when I mess it up

I say "I'm sorry"

Oh-oh, when I lose control and make you feel so bad

I say "I'm sorry"

GOD'S WILL lyrics - Macklemore (feat. Vic Daggs II)

 Never turn my back on my birthplace

Leave it to my city, making sure that the dirts straight

Leave my kids just enough 'cause I'll fail them the worst way

If I raised some rich spoiled white girls in the first place, yeah

Leave a legacy, one worth remembering

In my robe, looking out on Rome, on the Mezzanine, like

Why creators are the last ones with some equity?

Put myself in a position to pass it to my people


And that's why I'm not settling, more capital than Beverly

Before my grandma died, she saw me on Jeopardy

Still think PJs are too expensive

Still don't make music with people I ain't friends with

Still fuck the industry, and no, I don't mess with

People that my mama wouldn't want to have for breakfast

That's right

The suits, the streams, the snakes, the schemes, the steady


Pursuit of paper over truth and dreams

Loyal to my soil, never change the oil

Kept the motor running, kept my foot up on the gas

And push to start the button

Everything I thought I always wanted, everything it wasn't

Never know that God is everything until you lose sight of Him, yeah

Never know that God is everything until you lose sight of Him


Said it's written on my face, I can't play it off

I got so much on my plate, I can't shake it off

But I'm built for this, I'm built for this

I been staying in my lane, keep my head down

I was losing my faith, but I'm blessed now

God told me, "You built for this"

I know I'm built for this


You weren't supposed to die here

You were supposed to fly here

Look what you built off your imagination

Could've never imagined the places you would've been taken because your ideas

This is in your veins, like where the IV is

My mama's Dodge minivan became my own at 16

Before sixteen ever got you a phone

Maybe when I was 13, 12, 11, who knows


But I was in the back of that motherfucker writing my poems

On shrooms with the busted boombox

Thinking that this special brew and beater, I was Tupac, nah

If I could go back and give that motherfucker advice

I'd say it was already written, boy

Keep living your life

Put everything you got into your truth

That instrument you carry around, that is a tool


The most precious one you'll ever have

There's no shortcuts in the craft

Because the craft is actually just a path to discover you

It can get you pussy, respect, money, fame and

They love to call it, "the game," but please do not get it confused

'Cause that's just the temptation that God is going to put in front of your face

To see how bad you really want the jewel

And you don't run this shit, these are God's words


And when you catch the Holy Spirit, thank God first

Kill the ego, kill the need to keep on pleasing people

Self-centeredness and self-will isn't how God works

We only here for a blink and it's gone

So, what you going to do with the ink you use in your songs?

Regardless of your deal, or the label that you're on

When you die, the Universe already owns them all


That's God's will

It's all God's will

I KNOW lyrics - Macklemore (feat. charlieonnafriday)

 I know, my mama always told me I should drive slow

But I been bending corners with my eyes closed

Feel like I been sleeping on a tightrope

But it's my time though

Run that back again, I would throw it away

One-way ticket, I'ma to go M.I.A.

Ain't no bottle big enough to hold all this pain

The world's going to know my name


They told me don't spend too much time looking back

Stare at the future too long the present's what you're looking past

Mistakes can be hard to face in that looking glass

But I wouldn't be who I am if I took them back, nah

Just a kid in the back of the bus in his headphones

Trying to crack at a bad one and not get left off in the friend zone

Put my name at the top in Helvetica where the letterhead goes

I'm rounding third and finally got that go ahead to head home

This is Grandma's cornbread flow

When the album's finished, I'm taking the fam to Venice

And I ain't going to Club Med though

I'm not well read, no quoting Shakespeare off the head

But the mouthpieces always trend and a little more Detroit red though

The talk, Pellegrino, Arrowhead, no

All my dawgs with me like I bought some stock in Petco

Off the leash, all their bark is cheap

I finally cut the strings

I didn't want to have to dance and sing and answer to Geppetto

Life's too short, whether I like it or not

I don't exist in the dimensions they put 'round my box

Just me, myself, a ceiling, a couple of thoughts

No one on their deathbed regrets the things that they should've bought

The greatest resource is time and you can't buy back the clock

You can't rewind the tape and dub over the things I've watched

Only a matter of time before they pass the rock, give me a shot

I promised my mama I'ma to show the world what I got, like


I know, my mama always told me I should drive slow

But I been bending corners with my eyes closed

Feel like I been sleeping on a tightrope

But it's my time though

Run that back again, I would throw it away

One-way ticket, I'ma to go M.I.A.

Ain't no bottle big enough to hold all this pain

The world's going to know my name

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