MACKLEMORE AND RYAN LEWIS ‘THE HEIST ALBUM (DELUXE EDITION), TRACKLIST, COVER ART AND LYRICS

Track List

01. Ten Thousand Hours

02. Can’t Hold Us (ft Ray Dalton)

03. Thrift Shop (ft Wanz)

04. Thin Line (ft Buffalo Madonna)

05. Same Love (ft Mary Lambert)

06. Make the Money

07. Neon Cathedral (ft Allen Stone)

08. BomBom (ft The Teaching)

09. White Walls (ft ScHoolboy Q & Hollis)

10. Jimmy Iovine (ft Ab-Soul)

11. Wing$

12. A Wake (ft Evan Roman)

13. Gold (ft Eighty4 Fly)

14. Starting Over (ft Ben Bridwell)

15. Cowboy Boots

16. Castle

17. My Oh My

18. Victory Lap

CAN’T HOLD US LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

 [Verse 1: Macklemore]

Return of the Mack - get up

What it is, what it does, what it is, what it isn’t

Looking for a better way to get up out of bed

Instead of getting on the internet and checking a new hit

We get up, fresh out, pimp strut walking

Little bit of humble, little bit of cautious

Somewhere between like, Rocky and Cosby, Sweater Gang

Nope, Nope. y’all can’t copy that

Bad, moonwalkin', This here, is our party

My posse's been on broadway, and we did it our way

Grown music

I shed my skin and put my bones into everything I record to it

And yet I’m on

Let that stage light go and shine on down

Got the Bob Barker suit game and Plinko in my style

Money

Stay on my craft and stick around for those pounds

But I do that to pass the torch and put on for my town

Trust me, on my I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T shit hustling

Chasing dreams since I was 14

With the 4 track, bussing

Halfway cross that city with the backpack, fat cat, crush shit

Labels out here, nah they can’t tell me nothing

We give it to the people, spread it across the country

Labels out here, nah they can’t tell me nothing

We give it to the people, spread it across the country

[Hook x2 Ray Dalton]

And then we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we’ll fight till it’s over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us

Like the ceiling can’t hold us

[Verse 2: Macklemore]

Now, can I kick it? Thank you

Yeah I’m so damn grateful

I grew up really wanting gold fronts

But that’s what you get when Wu-Tang raised you

Y’all can’t stop me, I go hard like I've got an 808 in my heart beat

And I’m eating at the beat

Like you gave a little speed to a great white shark on shark week

(Why? Time to go off. Gone)? Deuces, goodbye

I've got a world to see;

And my girl, She wanna see Rome

Caesar'll make you a believer

Nah, I never ever did it for a throne

That validation comes

So I'm giving it back to the people now

Sing that song and it goes like...

Raise those hands, this is our party

We came here to live life like nobody was watching

I got my city right behind me;

If I fall they got me

Learn from that failure, gain humility

Then we keep marching, I said

[Hook x2 Ray Dalton]

[Bridge]

And all my people say'

"Na na NAna na naNA na"

[Hook x2 Ray Dalton]

Ten Thousand Hours Lyrics - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

Uh, I hope that God decides to talk to 'em

If the people decide to walk with them

Regardless of PitchFork, co-signs I've jumped

Make sure the sound man doesn't cock block the drums

Let the snare knock the air right out of your lungs

And those words be the oxygen, just breathe

Amen

Regardless I'mma say it

Felt like I got signed the day that I got an agent

Got an iTunes check, shit man, I'm payin' rent

About damn time that I got up out of my basement

About damn time that I got around the country and hit these stages

I was meant to slay them

Ten thousand hours I'm so damn close I can taste it

On some Malcolm Gladwell, David Bowie meets Kanye shit

This is dedication

A life lived for art is never a life wasted

[Hook: Lindsey Starr]

Ten thousand hours

Felt like ten thousand ants

Ten thousand ants

They carry me

Ten thousand hours

Felt like ten thousand ants

Ten thousand ants

They carry me

This is my world, this is my arena

The TV told me something different, I didn't believe it

I stand here in front of you today all because of an idea

I could be who I wanted if I could see my potential

And I know that one day I'mma be him

Put the gloves on, sparring with my ego

Everyone's greatest obstacle I beat them

Celebrate that achievement

Got some attachments and baggage I'm actually working on leaving

See, I observed Escher

I loved Basquiat

I watched Keith Haring

You see, I study art

The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint

The greats were great because they paint a lot

I will not be a statistic, just let me be

No child left behind, that's the American scheme

I make my living off of words and do what I love for work

Got around 980 on my SAT's

Take that system

What did you expect

A generation of kids choosing love over a desk

You put those hours in, and look at what you get

Nothing you can hold, but everything that it is

Ten thousand

[Hook]

Same shit, different day, same struggle

Slow motion as time, slips through my knuckles

Nothing beautiful about it

No light at the tunnel

For the people who put their passion before them being comfortable

Raw unmedicated heart no substitute

Banging on tabletops, no substitute

I'm feeling better than ever, man, what is up with you?

Scraping my knuckles and battling with some drug abuse

I lost another friend

Got another call from a sister

And I speak for the people who share that struggle too

Like they got something bruised

My only rehabilitation was the sweat, tears and blood went up in the booth

This the part of the show

Where it all fades away

Where the lights fade to black

And the band leaves the stage

And you wanted an encore, but there's no encore today

Because the moment is now, can't get it back from the grave

This the part of the show

Where it all fades away

Where the lights fade to black

And the band leaves the stage

And you wanted an encore, but there's no encore today

Because the moment is now, can't get it back from the grave

Welcome to The Heist

THRIFT SHOP LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

What, what, what, what…

I’m gonna pop some tags

Only got 20 dollars in my pocket

I, I, I’m hunting, lookin’ for a come-up

This is fucking awesome.

Walk into the club like what up, I got a big cock

I’m so pumped, I bought some shit from a thrift shop

Ice in the fridge is so damn frosty,

The people like “damn, that’s a cold ass honkey”

Rollin’ in hella deep, headed to the mezzanine

Dressed in all pink, except my gator shoes, those are green.

Draped in a leopard mink girls standin’ next to me

Probably should have washed this, it smells like R. Kelly’s sheets

Pissssssssssssss.

But shit, it was 99 cents.

If I get caught in it, washin’ it,

‘Bout to go and get some compliments passin’ up on those moccasins

Someone else has been walkin’ ‘in, but me and grungie fuckin’ ‘em

I am stuntin’ and flossin’ and savin’ my money

And I’m hella happy, that’s a bargain, bitch.

Imma take your grandpa’s style, imma take your grandpa’s style,

No, for real, ask your grandpa, can I have his hand-me-downs?

Velour jump suit and some house slippers,

Doukie brown leather jacket that I found diggin’.

They had a broken keyboard, I bought a broken keyboard

I bought a ski blanket, then I bought a knee board

Hello, hello, my ace man, my mello

John Wayne ain’t got nothing on my friends game,

Hell no!

I can take some pro wings make ‘em cool, sell those

The sneaker heads will be like

“Ah, he got the Velcro”

I’m gonna pop some tags

Only got 20 dollars in my pocket

I, I, I’m hunting, lookin’ for a come-up

This is fucking awesome.

I’m gonna pop some tags

Only got 20 dollars in my pocket

I, I, I’m hunting, lookin’ for a come-up

This is fucking awesome.

What you know ‘bout rockin’ the wolf on your noggin

What you knowin’ about wearing a fur fox skin

I’m digging, I’m digging, I’m searching right through that luggage

One man’s trash, that’s another man’s come-up.

Thank your grand dad for donating that plaid button-up shirt,

‘cause right now I’m up in hurr stuntin’

I’m at the Goodwill, you can find me in the bins,

I’m not, I’m not, I’m not searching in that section.

Your grandma, your aunty, your momma, you mammy,

I’ll take those flannel zebra ‘jammies secondhand, I’ll rock that motherfucker.

They built an onesie with the socks on the motherfucker,

I hit the party and they stopped that motherfucker.

They be like oh! That Gucci, that’s hella tight.

I’m like Yo! That’s 50 dollars for a t-shirt.

Limited edition, let’s do some simple addition,

50 dollars for a t-shirt, that’s just some ignorant bitch.

I call that getting swindled and pimped

I call that getting tricked by a business.

That shirt’s hella dope and that bliss,

I am one and six other people in this club is a hella don’t.

Peek gang, come take a look through my telescope

Trying to get girls with my brand, man, you hella won’t.

Man, you hella won’t.

I’m gonna pop some tags

Only got 20 dollars in my pocket

I, I, I’m hunting, looking for a come-up

This is fucking awesome.

I wear your grand dad’s clothes,

I look incredible,

I’m in this big ass coat from that thrift shop down the road.

I'll wear your grand dad’s clothes,

I’ll look incredible,

I’m in this big ass coat from that thrift shop down the road.

I’m gonna pop some tags

Only got 20 dollars in my pocket

I, I, I’m hunting, looking for a come-up

This is fucking awesome.

SAME LOVE LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert

 [Piano Intro]

[Verse 1: Macklemore]

When I was in the 3rd grade

I thought that I was gay

Cause I could draw, my uncle was

And I kept my room straight

I told my mom, tears rushing down my face

She's like, "Ben you've loved girls since before pre-K"

Trippin', yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she

A bunch of stereotypes all in my head

I remember doing the math like

"Yeah, I'm good at little league"

A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant

For those who like the same sex had the characteristics

The right-wing conservatives think its a decision

And you can be cured with some treatment and religion

Man-made, rewiring of a predisposition

Playing God

Ahh nah, here we go

America the brave

Still fears what we don't know

And God loves all His children

Is somehow forgotten

But we paraphrase a book written

35 hundred years ago

I don't know

[Hook: Mary Lambert]

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

My love, my love, my love

She keeps me warm [x4]

[Verse 2: Macklemore]

If I was gay

I would think hip-hop hates me

Have you read the YouTube comments lately

"Man that's gay"

Gets dropped on the daily

We've become so numb to what we're sayin'

Our culture founded from oppression

Yeah, we don't have acceptance for 'em

Call each other faggots

Behind the keys of a message board

A word routed in hate

Yet our genre still ignores it

Gay is synonymous with the lesser

It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion

Gender and skin color

Complexion of your pigment

The same fight that lead people to walk-outs and sit-ins

It's human rights for everybody

There is no difference

Live on! And be yourself!

When I was in church

They taught me something else

If you preach hate at the service

Those words aren't anointed

And that Holy Water

That you soak in

Is then poisoned

When everyone else

Is more comfortable

Remaining voiceless

Rather than fighting for humans

That have had their rights stolen

I might not be the same

But that's not important

No freedom 'til we're equal

Damn right I support it

I don't know

[Hook: Mary Lambert]

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

My love, my love, my love

She keeps me warm [x4]

[Verse 3: Macklemore]

We press play

Don't press pause

Progress, march on!

With a veil over our eyes

We turn our back on the cause

'Till the day

That my uncles can be united by law

Kids are walkin' around the hallway

Plagued by pain in their heart

A world so hateful

Someone would rather die

Than be who they are

And a certificate on paper

Isn't gonna solve it all

But it's a damn good place to startXX

No law's gonna change us

We have to change us

Whatever god you believe in

We come from the same one

Strip away the fear

Underneath it's all the same love

About time that we raised up

[Hook: Mary Lambert]

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

My love, my love, my love

She keeps me warm [x4]

[Outro: Mary Lambert]

Love is patient, love is kind

Love is patient (not cryin' on Sundays)

Love is kind (not crying on Sundays) [x5]

WINGS LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

I was seven years old, when I got my first pair

And I stepped outside

And I was like, Momma, this air bubble right here, it’s gonna make me fly

I hit that court, and when I jumped, I jumped, I swear I got so high

I touched the net, Mom I touched the net, this is the best day of my life

Air Maxes were next

That air bubble, that mesh

The box, the smell, the stuffin, the tread, in school

I was so cool

I knew that I couldn’t crease ‘em

My friends couldn’t afford ‘em

Four stripes on their Adidas

On the court I wasn’t the best, but my kicks were like the pros

Yo, I stick out my tongue so everyone could see that logo

Nike Air Flight, but bad was so dope

And then my friend Carlos’ brother got murdered for his fours, whoa

See he just wanted a jump shot, but they wanted a Starter coat though

Didn’t wanna get caught, from Genesee Park to Othello

You'd get clowned for those Pro Wings, with the velcro

Those were not tight

I was trying to fly without leaving the ground, cause I wanted to be like Mike, right

Wanted to be him

I wanted to be that guy, I wanted to touch the rim

I wanted to be cool, and I wanted to fit in

I wanted what he had, America, it begins

Chorus:

I want to fly

Can you take me far away

Give me a star to reach for

Tell me what it takes

And I’ll go so high

I’ll go so high

My feet won’t touch the ground

Stitch my wings

And pull the strings

I bought these dreams

That all fall down

We want what we can’t have, commodity makes us want it

So expensive, damn, I just got to flaunt it

Got to show ‘em, so exclusive, this that new shit

A hundred dollars for a pair of shoes I would never hoop in

Look at me, look at me, I’m a cool kid

I’m an individual, yea, but I’m part of a movement

My movement told me be a consumer and I consumed it

They told me to just do it, I listened to what that swoosh said

Look at what that swoosh did

See it consumed my thoughts

Are you stupid, don’t crease ‘em, just leave ‘em in that box

Strangled by these laces, laces I can barely talk

That’s my air bubble and I’m lost, if it pops

We are what we wear, we wear what we are

But see I look inside the mirror and think Phil Knight tricked us all

Will I stand for change, or stay in my box

These Nikes help me define me, and I’m trying to take mine, off

Chorus:

I want to fly

Can you take me far away

Give me a star to reach for

Tell me what it takes

And I’ll go so high

I’ll go so high

My feet won’t touch the ground

Stitch my wings

And pull the strings

I bought these dreams

That all fall down

They started out, with what I wear to school

That first day, like these are what make you cool

And this pair, this would be my parachute

So much more than just a pair of shoes

Nah, this is what I am

What I wore, this is the source of my youth

This dream that they sold to you

For a hundred dollars and some change

Consumption is in the veins

And now I see it’s just another pair of shoes

THIN LINE LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

And on on and on and on we go

And on on and on and on we go

We love who we are but now it’s gone

Let’s leave before we eat each other alive

Alive

Same city, yeah, we can’t break up

Nice mask on, wear the same one

The greatest trick that the devil ever pulled

Was convincing women that they looked

Better in their makeup

I wear war paint, fight to the casket

Too tired to apologize on this mattress

Emotional detachment – what’s the matter?

She’s learning that she never should have

Dated a rapper

I don’t blame her, my mind is gone

I’m a tenor, check them phone calls

Texting blogs

I don’t hear a word, I know nothing at all

Just concerned about the world

Memorizing these songs

Goes on and on

Don’t wanna break you

But I’m leading you on

On, on, on, on

And now it’s gone

And on on and on and on we go

And on on and on and on we go

We love who we are but now it’s gone

Let’s leave before we eat each other alive

Alive

You’re the love of my life

You are the love of my life

You are the love of my life

This time we know we know

It’s over, over

Didn’t believe in love until we fell out

Gave the keys back, now I’m on the homie’s couch

Always going out, sleeping ‘round with strangers

Danger! But you can’t live without her

Now you’re paranoid, checking on her cellphone

Making sure she ain’t like you alone

Haven’t made love with the lights still on

It’s like you’re hiding something from me

Let’s fake another toast to the good life

Predict the future, clean slate, blue sky

Fantasy: I see me husband, you wife

Lyin’, staring into those two eyes

And I can’t take it, back to where we came from

My pavement, past the emotional earthquake foundation

Yeah, let’s keep swimming in the snake pit

Get bit, get out then jump back into the suffocation

Make up and fuck to save us like we got this

Come on, this is just us baby

And this is just a fight, this is just love – maybe

Is it just you or am I fucking crazy?

I swear to God, I wish that I could Photoshop the scars off

Cold world and get all my heart throbbed

And I said it all and never get lock jaw

Mouth is a saw, a shock at any second could pop off

How does the truth taste?

My job comes with complimentary toothpaste

Lately, I’ve been living up out of my suitcase

Building trust in that I’m leaving on Tuesday

Bought a one night stand, just a bootleg

A duplication of something authentic

Heart augmented, and it’s so hard to end it

I said peace before but this time I meant it

Can’t get her out of my head

This place is a mess

Holding onto cobwebs

That has us both on the fence

She walks that thin line

In and out of my bed

Each time I love her less

Can’t get her out of my head

This place is a mess

Holding onto cobwebs

That has us both on the fence

She walks that thin line

In and out of my bed

Each time I love her less

And on on and on and on we go

And on on and on and on we go

We love who we are but now it’s gone

Let’s leave before we eat each other alive

Alive

You’re the love of my life

You are the love of my life

You are the love of my life

This time we know we know

It’s over

WAKE LYRICS -Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

 [Interlude]

I need love

You need love

Give me love

And I'll give you my love

[Verse 1]

They say thirty is the new twenty

And twenty is the new thirty shit I guess

Makes sense, cause fifteen year olds seem twenty

And twenty five year olds seem ten

I used to drink away my paycheck

Celebrate the mistakes I hadn't made yet

Our generation isn't the best on safe sex

We forget the latex, becoming Planned Parenthood patients

Synthetic heroin is the new basshead

So much to escape, fuck a straight edge

Walk around looking through a fake lens

Apps this good, whose got time to make friends?

I wish I didn't care

And cynical hipsters with long hair

Cocaine problems, like my music

It's not my issue, I can't solve it

[Hook]

My flight has finally landed down

And the ground has stopped moving all around

Eyes open, awake for the very first time

We both forfeit this game of crime

[Verse 2]

They say it's so refreshing to hear somebody on records

No guns, no drugs, no sex, just truth

The guns that's America, the drugs are what they gave to us

And sex sells itself, don't judge her 'til it's you

Ah, I'm not more or less cautious

The rappers rappin' 'bout them strippers up on the pole, copping

These interviews are obnoxious

Saying that it's poetry is so well spoken, stop it

I grew up during Reaganomics

When Ice T was out there runners killing cop shit

Or Rodney King was getting beat on

And they let off every single officer

And Los Angeles went and lost it

Now every month there is a new Rodney on Youtube

It's just something our generation is used to

And neighbourhoods where you never see a news crew

Unless they're gentrifying, white people don't even cruise through

[Verse 3]

And my subconcious telling me stop it

This is an issue that you shouldn't get involved in

Don't even tweet, R.I.P Trayvon Martin

Don't wanna be that white dude, million man marchin'

Fighting for our freedom that my people stole

Don't wanna make all my white fans uncomfortable

But you don't even have a fuckin' song for radio

Why you out here talkin race, tryin' to save the fuckin' globe

Don't get involved with the causes in mind

White priveledge, white guilt, at the same damn time

So we just party like it's nineteen ninty nine

Celebrate the ignorance while these kids keep dying

[Hook]

My flight has finally landed down

And the ground has stopped moving all around

Eyes open, awake for the very first time

We both forfeit this game of crime

[Interlude]

I need love

You need love

Give me love

And I'll give you my love

NEON CATHEDRAL LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Aha

Uhm

1-2

Round here they sing broken hymns

They prayers flow better when I’m soaked in gin

The air is rusty and sits in the corner

Bad bartender that’ll pickpocket your heart

And a jukebox that’ll steal your quarter

Bartender, please give me a confession

Exchange fear for courage in the form of a well drink

There’s a heavy current, got a long way to swim

Closed the Bible a while ago, I need some shots for this sin

Hail Mary, come with me, feel like Pac when it hits

Got some fire in my belly and a riot in the gut

Bushmills for a bandade, the sweet taste of blood

Then I might actually feel something if I don’t cover it up

Watch their faces, familiar places

Even if they didn’t left it by the booth that they stayed in

The motel next door, a sign that reads vacant

And a truth that’s so strong I’d be a fool not to chase it

But yea, I’m a fool and I stay here

Hope these problems bail themselves, I die in wait here

One more, four more, bucket a night cap

Service starts at 5 tomorrow and I’ll be right back

Underneath this fragile fate

Lives a battle between pride and shame

But I’ve misplaced that sense of fight

This crown of thorns is crunched inside my spine

But listen closely as I testify

Dependency has been a thief at night

Thief at night, thief at night

I read the Bible but I forgot the verses

The liquor store is open later than the churches

Pure by their imperfections, everything is burning

To hell with the confessions, oh the Lord immerses

Blessed in holy water, the sin of Holy Father

Have you ever smelled bless that smells atmonic vodka

11 AM in the morning and you can’t get it off yet

Comment to the preacher but it’s like the pastor isn’t talking

Until the store opens I can read up on that doctrine

The people close to me say I’m in need of a doctor

Think that I got a problem but these are not apostils

This the drink of the Lord, that’s according to my gospel

Open to interpretation, if you’re judging it I don’t want it

I got tins that scole like my throat when I hit the bottle

And I’m sinking and that’s why I keep on drinking

I need a refill, bar more than once every weekend

Sweet Jesus, I’m getting amnesia

Shaking til I’d get a taste, my faith is having seizures

Every time I walk away and try to leave it

Every time I walk away and try to leave it

Wouldn’t miss it for the world

Baptized in my vices and the bar is my church

Traded my artist and I conned off the easel

Spend it all searching for God at the neon cathedral

Wouldn’t miss it for the world

Baptized my vices and the bar is my church

Traded my artist and I conned off the easel

Spend it all searching for God, neon cathedral

Neon cathedral

Underneath this fragile fate

Lives a battle between pride and shame

But I’ve misplaced that sense of fight

This crown of thorns is crunched inside my spine

But listen closely as I testify

Dependency has been a thief at night

Thief at night, thief at night

Dependency has been a thief at night

Thief at night, thief at night

Dependency has been a thief at night

Thief at night, thief at night

WHITE WALLS LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

I wanna be free

I wanna just live

Inside my Cadillac

That is my shit

And I throw it up (I throw that up)

That’s what it is (that’s what it is)

In my C A D D I L L A C bitch (biatch)

Can’t see me through my tints (nah ah)

I’m riding real slow (slow)

In my paint wet drippin shorty like my 24’s (umbrella)

I’ve got 24’s (no oh)

But I’m on those vogues

That’s those big white walls, round them hundred spokes

Old school like old English in that brown paper bag

I’m going in that same whip that my granddad had

Hello haters

Damn y’all mad

30k on the Caddy, now how about cack wrapped is that?

Got that all-stripe Cadillac, midnight drive

Got that gas type of lean that taking my time

I’m blowin’ that roof off, letting in sky

I shine, the city never looked so bright

Man I’m lounging in some shit Bernie Mac would’ve been proud of

Looking down from heaven like damn that’s stylish

Smilin’, don’t pay attention to the mileage

Can I hit the freeway? I’m legally going 120

Easy weaving in and out of the traffic

They cannot catch me, I’m smashing

I’m ducking bucking them out here

I’m like go fuckin their tastic, I am up in a classic

Now I know what it’s like under the city lights

Riding into the night, driving over the bridge

The same one we walked across as kids

Knew I’d have a whippin’, never one like this

Old school, old school

Candy paint, two seater

Yea, I’m from Seattle

There’s hella on the civics

I couldn’t tell you a dog paid either

But I really want a Ducati so I put in the hours

And walk on over to the dealer

And I found the cars in there was a problem with this geezer

Got the keys in his apples

Well can I spin it screaming?

Got that all-stripe Cadillac, midnight drive

Got that gas type of lean that taking my time

I’m blowin’ that roof off, letting in sky

I shine, the city never looked so bright

Bad boys and dope

White hoes in the backseat snorting coke

She doing line after line like she’s writing rounds

I had it hella my love, tryna blow her mind

Cadillac pimpin’, my uncle was on

14 years out so excuse me and my niggas was gone

Sendin’ portions of his liquor, water in the Patron

Rather smilling like I won the fucking lottery homes

(Talking lottery homes)

Tires with the spikes on it in the 4-2

Most of the mayonnaise, keeping the buns on ‘em

My dogs hanging out the window

Yell as which, fuckin like in power

Tryna fuck em all, kill the fuckin wimps

See what’s poppin’ at the mall, meet a bad bitch

Slap her booty with my palms

You can smoke the pussy, I was tapped down the walls

I’m motherfuckin’ off

Son, swear these eyes tryna hypnotize

Grip the leather steering wheel while I grip the thighs

See the lust stuck up in her eyes

Maybe she like the ride or did she like the smoke?

Girl does she want it low?

This shit a crookedville so you’ll never know

So we cool with niggas, my nigga fuck the limit

Got a window ticket for showing banks to end of slots and the gas was finished

Q

Got that all-stripe Cadillac, midnight drive

Got that gas type of lean that taking my time

I’m blowin’ that roof off, letting in sky

I shine, the city never looked so bright

Got that all-stripe Cadillac, midnight drive

Got that gas type of lean that taking my time

I’m blowin’ that roof off, letting in sky

I shine, the city never looked so bright

JIMMY IOVINE LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

I put my life on the line

I’m on and bassin’, I’m fine

Cuz all I ever dreamt about was making it

They ain’t giving it, I’m taking it

I’m taking it, taking it, I ain’t giving it

I’m taking it, taking it, I ain’t giving it

I’m taking it, taking it, I ain’t giving it

I’m taking it, taking it, I need all that shit

Nobody winnin’ this slogurr

The police would’ve noticed

Gotta be strategic, I’m creepin’

Go and leave with that motive

Hold up, my plan is stormin’

All right, casin’ this building

Watch these rappers step back

And walk in and leave that with millions

Cut of that sweater, open that front door

And it’s gold printed out by the entrance door closes

Then a metaphor, then I start chorus

That part, that’s right, meaning shotgun

Dressed in an uniform, looking like a general

All blue, jumpsuit, why shoot?

Bloodthirsty and I’m eatin’ like a bull

Looking in the eyes of the matador (fuck you!)

Carrying 2 cans of paint

Security looks at me awkward

I say therefore I’m late

Getting Jimmy out his office

And my breath ‘bout to fade

I’m scared to death of these stalks me

Heart beating so loud you can hear the echo in that lobby

And see I break it down if I don’t make it out

Then I’m leaving town with that contract

And I’m spazzing out, cover the in or out

This chair and I’m picking them hostages

I don’t give a fuck, step into the elevator preston

Now I’m headed up (east)

Where they don’t know there’s a gram I the paint can

And I’m ready and willing to bust ‘em, fuck ‘em

Sprick, stuck in this recession not what you think

But if I get out my luck is destined

Might be good, depends on ink

And secretary at the front of the entrance staring right at me

I walk out, she whispers go ahead and then gives me a wink

I put my life on the line

I’m on and bassin’, I’m fine

Cuz all I ever dreamt about was making it

They ain’t giving it, I’m taking it

I’m taking it, taking it, I ain’t giving it

I’m taking it, taking it, I ain’t giving it

I’m taking it, taking it, I ain’t giving it

I’m taking it, taking it, I need all that shit

If I pass security, the secretary, the cubicals

But it’s weird, it’s like this room I’ve walked into is unusual

Better be styli and beautiful

Better be alive and like musical

But it feels like someone died, it’s got the vibe of a funeral

These numbers on the chalkboard

See these box, they cardboard

All these the blocks that got dropped and never got to be sophomores

Nothing goes down, I’m just sitting around

Waiting for albums that never come out

Complainin’ the day have nobody in the house

Wonderin’ within if they hardcore

I start pickin’, am I in the right place? Just walk towards

See Glocks on the wall

Oh yea, and the second dose will be all yours

Finally see an office with a melted sign, heaven sent

Big block silver letters, read it out loud: President

This was my chance to grab that contract and turn and jack

I can feel a cold hand grab on the back of my neck

He said: we’ve been watching you, so glad you could make it

Your music gets so impressive in this whole bang you created

You one hell of a bang, we here think you’re destined for greatness

And with that right song we all know that you’re next to be famous

Now I’m sorry, I’ve had a long day

Remind me, now what your name is?

That’s right, Macklemore

Of course, today has been crazy

Anyway, you ready?

We’ll give you a hundred thousand dollars

After your album comes out we’ll need back that money that you borrowed

It’s really like a loan, a loan? Come on, no

1-2, 360 degrees, we will beat your goals

You’ll get it done in the murks that you sell out on the road

Along with the third of the money you make when you’re out doing your show

Manager gets 20, booking agent gets 10

So shit, after taxes you and Ryan have 7%?

Just split

That’s not bad, I’ve seen a lot worse

None will give you a better offer than us

I replied I appreciate the offer, though that this is what I wanted

Rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked

GOLD LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Everything is gold, everything is equal

Posted on the porch just to show it, me and my people

Iris clothes, gold sun shines on

The world’s coated in the go of Carla

Yea, and these days days days

They never run away

Gold tints, shades, the blackout, that golden haze

Take all the gold from the pawnshop that lived behind the case

And get to give it away..

My golden update from volcanos in the heavens

And every strime that existed in time melted

Themes open, Dookie Rolls on the bells

When everything is gold, who cares about the cats?

They say the goats is given to God

You can’t take the bandade when you’re caught

I’ll tip over that kiosket of mall

Cause the sunset falls into tomorrow

That they were feeling like gold, 500 peso

Sleeping with gold, all fun, here we go

And we stay fresh, so fresh head to toe

Ghost slowly faded , 14 karat plated

So we’re feeling like gold

500 peso

Slick rick gold, row fun and we go

Yea we’re feeling like gold

So fresh head to toe

Ghost slowly faded , 14 karat plated

So we’re feeling like gold

Alright now we open up that car door

Hop out, hope they know it’s us

To rock society we been locked din that cobra clutch

More gold bottles, gold bottles never soak but up

Digsby jeans, that’s in go about trust

I solemnly swear to wear my cocks in stunts

Separate myself by sticking out just because

That’s how you illustrate power and who you’re above

But nah, tonight we take it, take it, giving it back

Cracking the vault, read everyone robbing the bank

Take whatever they want, we party and get banks

I been rocking gold chains since Pete was in the tank

You only live once, you only marry once

Watch Rick Voss give his Jesus piece to a bum

Cause tonight we ball, we ball, we comin’ up

Paintin the globe gold, to steppin’ on the sun

Like gold, 500 peso

Sleeping with gold, all fun, here we go

And we stay fresh, so fresh head to toe

Ghost slowly faded , 14 karat plated

So we’re feeling like gold

Oh oh oh oh oh

So we’re feeling like gold

Oh oh oh oh oh

Gold coins, gold phone, gold car

Costs at least 10 racks to get 16 gold bars

Gold rush, suck on my gold dust stuntin

Under these gold trunks, that’s 2 golden nugget

Flyin on the gold eagle, flyes than the rest of ‘em

Passing space needle, golden shower on pedestrians

Excuse me, that’s my bad, that’s my ego and he’s chilling off

My ego got here, that motherfucker got a muller bruh

And it’s gold, two girls gold brass

Lounging on the water, even gold sand

Sipping on Orangina, arms around them both pants

They’re sipping old English right out of a gold can

Two girls, those spandex so pretty

Girl ain’t even gold, she just got golden girl titties

I’m kidding, everyone is gold in my city

You paint Betty White gold, even Betty White can get it

Get it get it get it..

That they were feeling like gold, 500 peso

Sleeping with gold, all fun, here we go

And we stay fresh, so fresh head to toe

Ghost slowly faded , 14 karat plated

So we’re feeling like gold

500 peso

Sleeping with gold, all fun, here we go

And we stay fresh, so fresh head to toe

Ghost slowly faded , 14 karat plated

So we’re feeling like gold

Oh oh oh oh oh

So we’re feeling like gold

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

COWBOY BOOTS LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

 [Intro]

And we drink and get older

And some of us even try to get sober

Now here's to the assholes and the last calls

Well city kids, you get what you ask for

[Bridge]

And acquaintances turn to friends, I hope those friends they remember me

Hold the night for ransom as we kidnap the memories

Not sure there is a way to express what you meant to me

Sit around a table and use those ears as the centrepiece

[Hook x2]

Sounds of the city on Capitol Hill

Where I question if what I've seen here is real

Cowboy boots doing lines at the bar

Where the time goes slow when you're drinking PBR

[Verse 1]

Hold on to what you were, forget what you're not

The streets were ours that summer, at least those two blocks

Reminisce on those days, I guess that's OK, you wonder why

Some grow up, move on, close the chapter, live separate lives

The twenty-something confusion before the suit and tie

Strangers become mistakes but those mistakes make you feel alive

Hindsight is vibrant, reality: rarely lit

Memories to collage, paste to the glue that barely sticks

Good Lord, they broke all my shields

Locked bathroom doors, graffiti, and high heels

Until you felt that altitude you don't know how high feels

Party mountain, some don't ever come down from around here

To be young again, I guess it's relative

The camera lights, the whiskey rise, sink into the skin

I fantasize about a second win

Grow a moustache, pick up another bad habit and let the games begin

[Hook x2]

Sounds of the city on Capitol Hill

Where I question if what I've seen here is real

Cowboy boots doing lines at the bar

Where the time goes slow when you're drinking PBR

[Verse 2]

So here's to the nights, dancing with the band

Strangers into girlfriends form a one night stand

Brought a little liquor and turn up the Johnny Cash

You could bring a receipt to Heaven but you cannot take it back

And this is life, this is real, even when it feels like it isn't

I'd be a goddamn liar to say at times I didn't miss it

Seduce us, I turn my back as I walk into the distance

Dip my feet in every once in a while, just to say I visit

And we hold onto these nights

Trying to find out way home by the street light

Over time we figure out this is me, right

Learn a lot about your friends right around two A.M

[Bridge]

And acquaintances turn to friends, I hope those friends they remember me

Hold the night for ransom as we kidnap the memories

Not sure there is a way to express what you meant to me

Sit around a table and use those ears as the centrepiece

[Hook]

Sounds of the city on Capitol Hill

Where I question if what I've seen here is real

Cowboy boots doing lines at the bar

Where the time goes slow when you're drinking PBR

STARTING OVER LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

That’s 3 plus years, I was so proud of

And I threw ‘em all away for 2 Styrofoam cups

The irony, everyone will think that he lied to me

Made my sobriety so public, there’s no fuckin’ privacy

If I don’t talk about it then I carry it daily

Is there a A? 10-0-A, but now it’s been changed in every..

When they put me in some boxes that say

I never was, it’s the false prophet that never came

And well they think that everything that I written is all that fake

Oh well I’ll just take my slick to the grave

Uh, what the fuck are my parents gonna say?

The success that got his life together and changed him

And you know what pain looks like

When you tell your dad to relax then look him directly into his face

The seep on your shoulder’s the seemingly heavy weight

I’ve been seeing tears like this on my girl

In a while the trust that I once built ’s been betrayed

But I’d rather live telling the truth than be judged for my mistakes

The falsely held gun, yea them procks love them prays

I guess I gotta get this on the page

Feeling sick and helpless, lost the compass where self is

I know what I gotta do and I can’t help it

One day at a time is what they tell us

Now I gotta find a way to tell them

God help ‘em

One day at a time is what they tell us

Now I gotta find a way to tell them

We fell so hard

Now we gotta get back what we lost.. lost..

I felt you’d go

But you were with me all along.. along..

And every kid that came up to me

And said I was the music they listened to when they first got clean

Now look at me, a couple days sober

I’m fighting demons

Back of that meeting on the east side

Shaking swicking, hope that they don’t see it

Hope that no one is looking

That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie

Was posted in the back with my hands crossed shooken

If they call on me I’m passing, if they talk to me I’m looking out that door

But before I can make it somebody stops me and says are you Macklemore?

Maybe this isn’t the place or time

I just wanted to say that if there wasn’t for other side I wouldn’t have made it

I just look down at the ground and say thank you

She tells me she has 9 months and that she’s so grateful

Tears in her eyes, looking like she’s gonna cry.. fuck!

I barely got 48 hours, treat ‘er like I’m some wise monk

I wanna tell her I relapsed but I can’t

I just shake her hand and tell her congrats

Get back to my car and I think I’m tripping yea

Cuz gyro other side, that pen was in my hand

I’m just a flawed man, man I fucked up up

Like so many others I just never thought I would

I never thought I would, didn’t pick up the book

Doin’ it by myself, didn’t turn out that good

If I can be an example of getting sober

Then I can be an example of starting over

If I can be an example of getting sober

Then I can be an example of starting over

We fell so hard

Now we gotta get back what we lost.. lost..

I felt you’d go

But you were with me all along.. along..

We fell so hard

Now we gotta get back what we lost.. lost..

MAKE THE MONEY LYRICS - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

 [Verse 1]

Now, this is my job, I will not quit it

Pulled me out the depths when I thought that I was finished

Yeah I questioned if I could go the distance

That's just the work, regardless of who's listening, listening

Listen, see I was meant to be a warrior

Fight something amongst me, leave here victorious

Classroom of kids, or a venue performing

If I'd had done for the money I'd have been a fucking lawyer

Concrete, vagabond, van telling stories

Humbled by the road, I'm realizing I'm not important

See life's a beautiful struggle, I record it

Hope it helps you maneuvering through yours and

That's why we stay in the lab at night

I've been staring into this pad for over half my life

A true artist won't be satisfied

So I guess that's the sacrifice

And I say...

[Hook]

Make the money, don't let the money make you

Change the game, don't let the game change you

I'll forever remain faithful

All my people stay true

I say...

Make the money, don't let the money make you

Change the game, don't let the game change you

I'll forever remain faithful

All my people stay true

[Verse 2]

Forget about the fame, fortune and the mansion

Sitting and tripping watching myself on a plasma

Yeah, I start slipping when I'm thinking about that stuff

Ego won't swole until the karma catches that up, that up

I'm my grandma's number one grandson

I lost myself to remember who that was

We start thinking about some kicks, a necklace

What I really need is a job off craig's list

Take away the dot com, name, love

Fans, twitter followers, and the buzz

See, you keep the issues but you take away the drugs

And I had to find out who I really was

Who I really wasn't

So sick of who I was becoming

Yeah, tired of running

Time to look at the man in the mirror until I can learn to love him

[Hook]

Make the money, don't let the money make you

Change the game, don't let the game change you

I'll forever remain faithful

All my people stay true

I said...

Make the money, don't let the money make you

Change the game, don't let the game change you

I'll forever remain faithful

All my people stay true

[Bridge](x2)

Of course I want dubs and a candy painted 'lac

Watch the videos and get the girls in the back

But if that's what I believe in, and the reason that I rap

Uncle Sam is my pimp when he puts me on the track

[Hook]

Make the money, don't let the money make you

Change the game, don't let the game change you

I'll forever remain faithful

Stay true, stay true

And I said...

Make the money, don't let the money make you

Change the game, don't let the game change you

I'll forever remain faithful

Stay true, stay true, stay true

[Outro]

Forget about the fame

I said forget about the fame

I'll forever remain faithful

Stay true, stay true, stay true