Vipassana-Macklemore & Ryan Lewis/Macklemore

[00:24.38]Yesterday, forget it [00:26.00]Tomorrow is nada [00:27.48]The present is right here, [00:28.95]through the breath, watch it [00:30.54]Atheist Jesus piece, hanging on a cross [00:33.19]We sit and discuss God on lawn chairs [00:35.72]About how we got here, [00:37.17]What it is, what it isn't, **** [00:39.03]Fate vs. fate, scrimmaging with coincidence [00:41.86]Leave out the market [00:43.36]and hold up on the business end [00:44.91]Focus on the genuine, [00:46.33]and everything else, [00:47.49]you can shed the skin [00:48.77]I was a couple moves away from being dead [00:51.89]In that ER overdosing, eyes bleeding red [00:54.91]I fell in love, made an album, got a buzz [00:57.23]Lost it all, sobered up and guess what? [00:59.69]Now we meet again [01:01.00]And now I'm back, finally just laughin' [01:03.85]Expectations are resentments waiting to happen [01:06.73]Studying the Dharma, Karma, Vipassana practice [01:09.47]Bahá'u'lláh, Buddah, [01:10.65]God to the mountaintop and I'm traveling [01:12.67]Learning, yes, reflecting on what matters [01:15.80]People, impermanence, lack of attachments [01:19.15]It's space and time, a couple man-made distractions [01:22.00]The measure of a spirit that no human can ever capture [01:25.31]Church, ha, this booth is my Vatican [01:27.98]I don't control life, but I control how I react to it [01:31.03]Student of the breath, break beats and balancing [01:34.13]Desire vs. truth until I finally find happiness [01:42.19] [02:01.06]I was put here to do something [02:03.02]before I'm lying in that casket [02:04.50]I'd be lying on the beat if I said I didn't know what that is [02:07.67]The world's a stage and we play a character, I found him [02:10.69]It took me 20 something years [02:12.11]and a bunch of ****ty soundchecks [02:13.79]I'm not gonna be content, till I find gratitude [02:16.81]Regardless of my sales or the record deals that they're handing you [02:19.97]If the next generation takes a legacy in samples [02:22.31]You will have a bunch of mp3's of misled kids to pass 'em to [02:26.05]I use my veins to create the color I paint from [02:28.72]Delve into self until my heart becomes my paint brush [02:32.12]I told my momma I'm not stopping till my names up [02:35.15]Thinkin' those comments on that blog is gonna save us [02:38.19]Searching for everything but God to validate ya [02:40.78]Get insecure and then we start blaming the haters [02:44.11]Used to look to women to fill a part of me that was vacant [02:46.87]Truth, the only thing that I ever used in moderation [02:49.95]So I stare into this paper instead of sitting at a cubicle [02:53.13]Take all the ugly shit inside and try to make it beautiful [02:56.01]Use the cement from rock bottom and make it musical [02:59.24]So that people can relate to where I've been, [03:01.39]Where I'm going, what I've seen, what I've heard [03:03.20]From the guts, **** the glory [03:04.96]Just a person on a porch putting it all into recording [03:08.08]Many in my past and many that came before me [03:11.23]I just keep walking my path and I'm blessed to share my story