Vipassana (Ryan Lewis REMIX)-Macklemore & Ryan Lewis/Macklemore

[00:17.08]Yesterday forget it [00:18.80]Tomorrow is nada [00:20.18]The present is right here [00:21.63]Through the breath watch it [00:23.33]Atheist Jesus piece hanging on a cross [00:26.02]We sit and discuss God on lawn chairs [00:28.00] [00:28.51]About how we got here [00:30.11]What it is what it isn't **** [00:31.74]Fate vs fate scrimmaging with coincidence [00:33.82] [00:34.42]Leave out the market [00:35.91]And hold up on the business end [00:37.62]Focus on the genuine [00:38.64]And everything else [00:40.19]You can shed the skin [00:41.58]I was a couple moves away from being dead [00:43.99] [00:44.72]In that ER overdosing eyes bleeding red [00:47.56]I fell in love made an album got a buzz [00:50.11]Lost it all sobered up and guess what [00:52.44]Now we meet again [00:53.67]And now I'm back finally just laughin' [00:56.49]Expectations are resentments waiting to happen [00:58.91] [00:59.62]Studying the Dharma Karma Vipassana practice [01:01.95]Bahá'u'lláh Buddah [01:02.92]God to the mountaintop and I'm traveling [01:05.20]Learning yes reflecting on what matters [01:07.99] [01:08.75]People impermanence lack of attachments [01:11.53]It's space and time a couple man-made distractions [01:14.57]The measure of a spirit that no human can ever capture [01:17.46] [01:18.18]Church ha this booth is my Vatican [01:20.90]I don't control life but I control how I react to it [01:23.95]Student of the breath break beats and balancing [01:26.55]Desire vs truth until I finally find happiness [01:29.62] [01:54.18]I was put here to do something [01:55.64]Before I'm lying in that casket [01:57.46]I'd be lying on the beat if I said I didn't know what that is [02:00.49]The world's a stage and we play a character I found him [02:03.37]It took me 20 something years [02:04.96]And a bunch of ****ty soundchecks [02:06.43]I'm not gonna be content till I find gratitude [02:08.70] [02:09.46]Regardless of my sales or the record deals [02:11.63]That they're handing you [02:12.62]If the next generation takes a legacy in samples [02:15.08]You will have a bunch of mp3's of misled kids to pass 'em to [02:18.70]I use my veins to create the color I paint from [02:21.07] [02:21.67]Delve into self until my heart becomes my paint brush [02:24.75]I told my momma I'm not stopping till my names up [02:27.74]Thinkin' those comments on that blog is gonna save us [02:30.52]Searching for everything but God to validate ya [02:33.08] [02:33.75]Get insecure and then we start blaming the haters [02:36.62]Used to look to women to fill a part of me that was vacant [02:39.89]Truth the only thing that I ever used in moderation [02:42.41]So I stare into this paper instead of sitting at a cubicle [02:45.43]Take all the ugly shit inside and try to make it beautiful [02:48.48]Use the cement from rock bottom and make it musical [02:51.70]So that people can relate to where I've been [02:53.93]Where I'm going what I've seen what I've heard [02:56.27]From the guts **** the glory [02:57.71]Just a person on a porch putting it all into recording [03:00.10] [03:00.83]Many in my past and many that came before me [03:03.77]I just keep walking my path and I'm blessed to share my story