Starting Over-Macklemore & Ryan Lewis/Ben Bridwell

[00:09.52]Those 3 plus years, I was so proud of [00:15.11]And I threw ‘em all away for 2 Styrofoam cups [00:18.19]The irony, everyone will think that he lied to me [00:21.40]Made my sobriety so public, there’s no ****in’ privacy [00:24.13]If I don’t talk about it then I carry a date [00:26.49]08-10-08, but now it’s been changed in every.. [00:30.52]When they put me in some box as a saint [00:32.42]I never was, it’s the false prophet that never came [00:35.30]And well they think that everything that I written has all been fake [00:38.47]Oh well I’ll just take my slip to the grave [00:40.78]Uh, what the **** are my parents gonna say? [00:44.31]The success story that got his life together and changed [00:47.17]And you know what pain looks like [00:49.28]When you tell your dad you relapsed then look him directly into his face [00:53.03]The seat on your shoulder’s the seemingly heavy weight [00:55.88]I’ve been seeing tears like this on my girl [00:58.15]In a while the trust that I once built’s been betrayed [01:01.08]But I’d rather live telling the truth than be judged for my mistakes [01:04.61]The falsely held up, given props, loved and praised [01:07.83]I guess I gotta get this on the page [01:09.64]Feeling sick and helpless, lost the compass where self is [01:13.87]I know what I gotta do and I can’t help it [01:16.35]One day at a time is what they tell us [01:19.51]Now I gotta find a way to tell them [01:21.78] [01:26.19]God help ‘em [01:27.33]One day at a time is what they tell us [01:31.41]Now I gotta find a way to tell them [01:33.69]We fell so hard [01:37.86]Now we gotta get back what we lost.. lost.. [01:46.31]I thought you’d go [01:49.64]But you were with me all along.. along.. [01:57.07]And every kid that came up to me [02:00.15]And said I was the music they listened to when they first got clean [02:03.37]Now look at me, a couple days sober [02:05.64]I’m fighting demons [02:06.74]Back of that meeting on the east side [02:08.52]Shaking tweakin', hope that they don’t see it [02:10.48]Hope that no one is looking [02:11.91]That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie [02:14.89]Was posted in the back with my hands crossed shooken [02:17.95]If they call on me I’m passing, if they talk to me I’m booking out that door [02:21.51]But before I can make it somebody stops me and says are you Macklemore? [02:25.18]Maybe this isn’t the place or time [02:27.15]I just wanted to say that if it wasn’t for other side I wouldn’t have made it [02:31.59]I just look down at the ground and say thank you [02:34.72]She tells me she has 9 months and that she’s so grateful [02:37.47]Tears in her eyes, looking like she’s gonna cry.. ****! [02:40.32]I barely got 48 hours, treated like I’m some wise monk [02:44.51]I wanna tell her I relapsed but I can’t [02:46.93]I just shake her hand and tell her congrats [02:49.20]Get back to my car and I think I’m tripping yea [02:51.86]Cause God wrote Otherside, that pen was in my hand [02:54.88]I’m just a flawed man, man I ****ed up up [02:57.84]Like so many others I just never thought I would [03:00.57]I never thought I would, didn’t pick up the book [03:03.65]Doin’ it by myself, didn’t turn out that good [03:06.51]If I can be an example of getting sober [03:09.75]Then I can be an example of starting over [03:12.32]If I can be an example of getting sober [03:15.41]Then I can be an example of starting over [03:18.13]We fell so hard [03:22.86]Now we gotta get back what we lost.. lost.. [03:30.15]I thought you'd go [03:34.79]But you were with me all along.. along.. [03:41.77] [03:54.93]We fell so hard [03:58.53]Now we gotta get back what we lost.. lost.. [04:04.33]