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1,2 Now
That's three plus years, I was so proud of
And I threw âem all away for 2 Styrofoam cups
The irony, everyone will think that he lied to me
Made my sobriety so public, thereâs no fuckinâ privacy
If I donât talk about it then I carry a date
08/10/08, but now itâs been changed in every..
When they put me in some boxes that say
That I never was, itâs the false prophet that never came
And will they think that everything that I written is all that been fake
Oh well Iâll just take my slip to the grave
Uh, what the fuck are my parents gonna say?
This success story that got his life together and changed
And you know what pain looks like
When you tell your dad you relapsed and look him directly into his face
The seep on your shoulders, the seemingly heavy weight
Haven't seen tears like this on my girl
In a while the trust that I once built âs been betrayed
But Iâd rather live telling the truth than be judged for my mistakes
Them falsely held up, gave em props loved 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 canât help it
One day at a time is what they tell us
Now I gotta find a way to tell them
God help âem
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 youâd 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
Iâm fighting demons
Back of that meeting on the east side
Shaking tweaking, hope that they donât 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 Iâm passing, if they talk to me Iâm booking out that door
But before I can make it somebody stops me and says are you Macklemore?
Maybe this isnât the place or time
I just wanted to say that if it wasnât for Otherside I wouldnât have made it
I just look down at the ground and say thank you
She tells me she has 9 months and that sheâs so grateful
Tears in her eyes, looking like sheâs gonna cry.. fuck!
I barely got 48 hours, treated like Iâm some wise monk
I wanna tell her I relapsed but I canât
I just shake her hand and tell her congrats
Get back to my car and I think Iâm tripping yeah
Cuz God wrote Otherside, that pen was in my hand
Iâm just a flawed man, man I fucked up
Like so many others I just never thought I would
I never thought I would, didnât pick up the book
Doinâ it by myself, didnât 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 youâd go
But you were with me all along.. along..
We fell so hard
Now we gotta get back what we lost.. lost..
- Album:
- White Privilege II (Single)
- Downtown (Single)
- Non-Album Releases
- Stay at Home Dad (Single)
- Thrift Shop (Single)
- The Heist
- Spotify Sessions
- Compilation
- ONE Presents agit8, Vol. 2
- The Heist [Deluxe Edition]
- Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz)
- VS. Redux
- Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Live on KEXP - recorded July...
- 4 The Love of Music
- Wings
- Musikvideos Jahrescharts 2014 Top 100
- The VS. Redux
- Irish Celebration
- Musikvideos Jahrescharts 2013 Top 100
- Same Love (Xavi Shadow Remix)