A Wake (feat. Evan Roman) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.mp3

[00:02.993][Evan Roman:]
[00:03.305]I need love
[00:03.693]You need love
[00:04.986]Give me love
[00:07.159]And I'll give you my love
[00:09.293]
[00:09.812][Macklemore:]
[00:29.410]They say thirty's the new twenty
[00:30.734]And twenty's the new thirty, shit I guess
[00:33.406]Makes sense, 'cause fifteen-year-olds seem twenty
[00:35.924]And twenty-five -year-olds seem ten
[00:38.304]I used to drink away my paycheck
[00:40.359]Celebrate the mistakes I hadn't made yet
[00:42.868]Our generation isn't the best on safe sex
[00:45.110]We forget the latex, becoming Planned Parenthood patients
[00:48.096]Synthetic h****n is the new basehead
[00:50.391]So much to escape, **** a straight edge
[00:53.035]Walk around looking through a fake lens
[00:55.204]Apps this good, who's got time to make friends?
[00:58.201]I wish I didn't care
[00:59.837]If cynical hipsters with long hair
[01:02.252]And c*****e problems, like my music
[01:03.684]It's not my issue, I can't solve it
[01:06.002]
[01:06.382][Evan Roman:]
[01:06.711]My flight has finally landed down
[01:11.022]And the ground has stopped moving all around
[01:16.316]Eyes open, awake for the very first time
[01:22.713]We both forfeit this game of crime
[01:25.838]
[01:26.072][Macklemore:]
[01:26.276]They say, "It's so refreshing to hear somebody on records
[01:28.339]No guns, no drugs, no sex, just truth"
[01:30.619]The guns. That's America, the drugs are what they gave to us
[01:32.953]And sex sells itself, don't judge 'til it's you
[01:35.770]Ah, I'm not more or less conscious
[01:37.682]Than rappers rapping 'bout them strippers up on a pole, popping
[01:40.405]These interviews are obnoxious
[01:42.091]Saying that "It's poetry. You're so well spoken." Stop it
[01:44.948]I grew up during Reaganomics
[01:47.279]When Ice T was out there on his killing-cops shit
[01:49.773]Or Rodney King was getting beat on
[01:52.295]And they let off every single officer
[01:53.847]And Los Angeles went and lost it
[01:54.548]Now every month there's a new Rodney on YouTube
[01:56.878]It's just something our generation is used to
[01:59.262]And neighbourhoods where you never see a news crew
[02:01.692]Unless they're gentrifying, white people don't even cruise through
[02:04.373]And my subconscious telling me stop it
[02:06.281]This is an issue that you shouldn't get involved in
[02:08.723]Don't even tweet "R.I.P., Trayvon Martin"
[02:11.059]Don't wanna be that white dude million-man marching
[02:13.671]Fighting for a freedom that my people stole
[02:15.869]Don't wanna make all my white fans uncomfortable
[02:18.160]'But you don't even have a ****ing song for radio
[02:20.317]Why you out here talking race, trying to save the ****ing globe?'
[02:23.337]Don't get involved if the cause isn't mine
[02:25.267]White privilege, white guilt, at the same damn time
[02:27.650]So we just party like it's 1999
[02:30.019]Celebrate the ignorance while these kids keep dying
[02:32.450]
[02:32.775][Evan Roman:]
[02:33.001]My flight has finally landed down
[02:36.496]And the ground has stopped moving all around
[02:41.821]Eyes open, awake for the very first time
[02:48.240]We both forfeit this game of crime
[02:51.807]
[03:01.847]I need love
[03:03.255]You need love
[03:05.606]Give me love
[03:07.652]And I'll give you my love