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