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