Kevin - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis/Leon Bridges.mp3

[00:05.02]OK, OK
[00:12.50]Yeah YEAH
[00:15.15]Let we live tonight
[00:18.98]One second, now
[00:20.20]I seen pain, I felt the losses
[00:22.39]Attended funerals and seen coffins
[00:24.98]21 years old, an angel was lost here
[00:27.61]Wings clipped by the grip of 80 milligram sniffs of oxycontin
[00:31.29]Everyday through the nostrils
[00:32.96]Never went away, never does it stop there
[00:35.52]Death a line or two away and a couple tall cans
[00:38.04]Cause you never know when God is gonna call, man
[00:40.70]Precious, what we all share
[00:42.78]I said peace at 5:30, the next time that I saw him was in the hands of the pallbearer
[00:46.95]What if I would've never gone and dropped him off there?
[00:49.50]Blaming myself, in hysterics, screaming "It's not fair!"
[00:51.83]21 years old with a book of rhymes he was gonna recite to the globe
[00:55.33]Only thing to numb the pain besides that ****t in his nose
[00:57.73]He was gonna quit tomorrow, we're all gonna quit tomorrow
[01:00.55]Just get us through the weekend, and then Monday follows
[01:02.94]Then it's Wednesday, then it's "**** it, I'm already feeling hollow"
[01:05.31]Might as well go crack a seal and might as well go chug a bottle
[01:07.85]Might as well go pop a pill and band-aid that problem
[01:10.42]And escape this world, vacate this world
[01:13.05]Cause I hate myself
[01:14.41]No praying's gonna cure this pain
[01:19.81]Doctor, please, give me a dose of the American Dream
[01:30.55]Put down the pen and look in my eyes
[01:36.67]We're in the waiting room and something ain't right
[01:46.70]All this is on you, we're overprescribed
[01:52.33]For me and Kevin
[01:53.48]He went up in jail, institutions are dead
[01:55.98]And with our lives, we play Russian Roulette
[01:58.39]And try to find a life where we could be content
[02:00.96]Cause for us, we're just trying to minimize the fear of being alive
[02:05.93]And now my little brother is in the sky
[02:08.46]From a pill that a doctor prescribed
[02:10.37]That a drug dealing billion dollar industry supplied
[02:12.93]And the cops never go and profile at night
[02:15.42]Yeah, the, the, the orange plastic with the white top they sell to you Yeah,
[02:19.13]Has us looking for the answers and that instead of you
[02:21.51]Quick fix, whatever'll do
[02:22.87]We just gonna neglect the truth
[02:23.89]Because a doctor with a license played God and said it's cool
[02:27.84]Played God and said it's cool
[02:31.42]But me? I don't blame Kev or his mom freebasing while pregnant with him
[02:36.12]I blame the pharmacy companies
[02:37.55]And country that spends trillions fighting the war they supplying themselves
[02:41.39]Politicians and business and jail
[02:43.43]Public defenders and judges who fail
[02:45.95]Look at Kevin, look at Kevin
[02:47.74]Now he's wrapped in plastic
[02:49.27]First dealer was his mom's medicine cabinet
[02:51.52]Got anxiety, better go and give him a Xanax
[02:53.88]Focus, give him Adderall,
[02:55.19]sleep, give him Ambien
[02:56.40]'Til he's walking 'round the city looking like a mannequin
[02:58.95]Ups and downs, shooting up prescriptions you're handing him
[03:03.90]So America, is it really worth it? I'm asking you
[03:10.91]Doctor, please, give me a dose of the American Dream
[03:21.53]Put down the pen and look in my eyes
[03:27.70]We're in the waiting room and something ain't right
[03:37.70]All this is on you, we're overprescribed
[03:52.50]Doctor, your medicine and your methods
[03:57.53]Can't cure my disease without killing me
[04:03.26]You're killing me, you're killing me
[04:08.24]You're killing me, you're killing me
[04:12.49]Doctor, your medicine and your methods
[04:17.81]Can't cure my disease without killing me
[04:23.18]You're killing me, you're killing me
[04:28.47]You're killing me, you're killing me