Downtown (feat. Melle Mel, Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee & Eric Nally) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under Broken glass everywhere People pissin' on the stairs, you know they just don't care I can't take the smell, can't take the noise Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice Rats in the front room, roaches in the back Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat I tried to get away but I couldn't get far Cause a man with a tow truck repossessed my car Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge I'm trying not to lose my head It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under Standin' on the front stoop hangin' out the window Watchin' all the cars go by, roarin' as the breezes blow Crazy lady, livin' in a bag Eatin' outta garbage pails, used to be a fag hag Said she'll dance the tango, skip the light fandango A Zircon princess seemed to lost her senses Down at the peep show watchin' all the creeps So she can tell her stories to the girls back home She went to the city and got social security She had to get a pimp, she couldn't make it on her own It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under My brother's doin' bad, stole my mother's TV Says she watches too much, it's just not healthy All My Children in the daytime, Dallas at night Can't even see the game or the Sugar Ray fight The bill collectors, they ring my phone And scare my wife when I'm not home Got a bum education, double-digit inflation Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station Neon King Kong standin' on my back Can't stop to turn around, broke my sacroiliac A mid-range migraine, cancered membrane Sometimes I think I'm goin' insane I swear I might hijack a plane! It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under My son said, Daddy, I don't wanna go to school Cause the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool And all the kids smoke reefer, I think it'd be cheaper If I just got a job, learned to be a street sweeper Or dance to the beat, shuffle my feet Wear a shirt and tie and run with the creeps Cause it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny You got to have a con in this land of milk and honey They pushed that girl in front of the train Took her to the doctor, sewed her arm on again Stabbed that man right in his heart Gave him a transplant for a brand new start I can't walk through the park cause it's crazy after dark Keep my hand on my gun cause they got me on the run I feel like a outlaw, broke my last glass jaw Hear them say "You want some more?" Livin' on a see-saw It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under A child is born with no state of mind Blind to the ways of mankind God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too Because only God knows what you'll go through You'll grow in the ghetto livin' second-rate And your eyes will sing a song called deep hate The places you play and where you stay Looks like one great big alleyway You'll admire all the number-book takers Thugs, pimps and pushers and the big money-makers Drivin' big cars, spendin' twenties and tens And you'll wanna grow up to be just like them, huh Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers Pickpocket peddlers, even panhandlers You say I'm cool, huh, I'm no fool But then you wind up droppin' outta high school Now you're unemployed, all non-void Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd Turned stick-up kid, but look what you done did Got sent up for a eight-year bid Now your manhood is took and you're a Maytag Spend the next two years as a undercover fag Bein' used and abused to serve like hell Til one day, you was found hung dead in the cell It was plain to see that your life was lost You was cold and your body swung back and forth But now your eyes sing the sad, sad song Of how you lived so fast and died so young so It's like a jungle sometimes It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under

Rock Bass (Oooh, white) (White) (Oooh) (White lines) Vision dreams of passion (Blowin' through my mind) And all the while I think of you (High price) A very strange reaction (For us to unwind) The more I see, the more I do (Something of a phenomenon) Baby (Tellin' your body to come along) (But, white lines blow away) (Blow) (Rock it) (Blow) Ticket to ride 'White Line Highway' Tell all your friends They can go my way Pay your toll, sell your soul Pound-for-pound Costs more than gold The longer you stay The more you pay My white lines go a long way Either up your nose Or through your vein With nothin' to gain, except killin' your brain Freeze Rock Freeze Rock Freeze Rock Freeze Rock (Blow) (Ahhh) Higher, baby (Ahhh) Get higher, baby (Ahhh) Get higher, baby And don't ever come down (Freebase) (Rang dang diggedy dangy-dang) (Rang dang diggedy dangy-dang) (Rang dang diggedy dangy-dang) (Diggedy dangy dang, diggedy dangy dang) (Pipeline) Pure as the driven snow (Connected to my mind) And now I'm havin' fun, baby (High price) It's getting kinda low ('Cause it makes you feel so nice) I need some one-on-one, baby (Don't let it blow your mind away) Baby (And go into your little hideaway) ('Cause white lines blow away) (Blow) A million magic crystals Painted pure and white A multi-million dollars Almost overnight Twice as sweet as sugar Twice as gritted as salt And if you get hooked, baby It's nobody else's fault, so don't do it Freeze Rock Freeze Rock Freeze Rock Freeze Rock (Raah) (Blow) (Ahhh) Higher, baby (Ahhh) Get higher, baby (Ahhh) Get higher, baby And don't ever come down (Freebase) (Don't you get too high) Don't you get too high, baby (Turns you on) You really turn me on and on ('Cause you gonna come down) My temperature is risin' (When the thrill is gone) No, I don't want you to go A street kid gets arrested Gonna do some time He got out three years from now Just to commit more crime A businessman is caught With 24 kilos He's out on bail and out of jail And that's the way it goes Raah Cane Sugar Cane Athletes rejected Governors corrected Gangsters, thugs and smugglers Are thoroughly respected The money gets divided The women get excited Now I'm broke and it's no joke It's hard as hell to fight it, don't buy it Freeze (Ha, ha, ha) Rock Freeze Rock Freeze Rock Freeze Rock Freeze Rock Freeze Rock

Oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh When you grab your bike and you ride to the edge of town To the place on your own where your soul can think out loud And you wish upon the stars, so close yet so far You gotta dig for the diamond, gotta dig Gotta live for the story, gotta live, ooh Give this kid something to believe in Give this kid something to believe in When you're searching for a sign And you want to make it right Give this kid something to believe in Believe in Believe in Wake up out of bed, so many thoughts running through my head And I'm tryna fight the feeling that the walls are slowly closing in So I reach out for the stars, so close yet so far You gotta dig for the diamond, gotta dig Gotta live for the story, gotta live, ooh Give this kid something to believe in Give this kid something to believe in When you're searching for a sign And you want to make it right Give this kid something to believe in Believe in Believe in Believe in Hold on, hold on, hold on How long, how long, how long? Hold on, hold on, hold on How long, how long, how long? Give this kid something to believe in Give this kid something to believe in Give this kid something to believe in Give this kid something to believe in When you're searching for a sign And you want to make it right Give this kid something to believe in Believe in Believe in Believe in Hold on, hold on, hold on Believe in How long, how long, how long? Believe in

Shake shake crazy Freak in the night Djs playing all they songs that they like And we don't feel no spirit We're doin' it right You've got to shake shake crazy Shake it all night Do what you want With who you love I don't mind Do what you want (Do what you want) Do what you want (Do what you want) With who you love Shake shake crazy Shake it all night If you're feeling the music you know you can't lose it You're doing something right Well, if you're feet keep movin' look into my eyes Shake shake baby Shake it all night Shake shake crazy Freak in the night Do what you want With who you love I don't mind Do what you want (Do what you want) Do what you want (Do what you want) With who you love (Who do you love?) Hands up, ghost ride, loop-de-loop rollercoaster Hair down, twist tie, bulldozer roll 'em over Hands up, ghost ride, loop-de-loop rollercoaster Hair down, twist tie, bulldozer roll 'em over Do what you want (Do what you want) With who you love (Who do you love?) I don't mind (I don't mind) Do what you want (Do what you want) Do what you want (Woo! Do what you want) Do what you want (Do what you want) With who you love (Who do you love?) I don't mind (I don't mind) Do what you want (Do what you want) Do what you want (Woo! Do what you want) With who you love With who you love

"Vipassana is a science of mind and matter How the mind is influencing the body And later, how the body is influencing the mind" Yesterday? Forget it Tomorrow is? Nada The present is right here, through the breath, watch it Atheist Jesus piece, hangin' on a cross We sit and discuss God on lawn chairs About how we got here What it is, what it isn't, shit Fate versus faith, scrimmaging with coincidence Leave out the marketing, hold up on the business end Focus on the genuine, and everything else, you can shed the skin I was a couple moves away from being dead In that ER overdosing, eyes bleeding red I fell in love, made an album, got a buzz Lost it all, sobered up, and guess what? Now we meet again And now I'm back, finally just laughin' Expectations are resentments waiting to happen Studying the dharma, karma, vipassana practice Bahá'u'lláh, Buddha, God, to the mountaintop and I'm traveling Learning, yes, reflecting on what matters People, impermanence, lack of attachments It's space and time, a couple of man-made distractions The measure of a spirit that no human can ever capture Church, this booth is my Vatican I don't control life, but I can control how I react to it Student of the breath, brick beats and balancin' Desire versus truth until I finally find happiness I was put here to do something before I'm lying in that casket I'd be lying on the beat if I said I didn't know what that is The world's a stage and we play a character, I found him It took me 20-something years and a bunch of shitty soundchecks I'm not gonna be content 'til I find gratitude Regardless of my sales or the record deals they're handing you If the next generation takes our legacy and samples you We'll have a bunch of mp3s and misled kids to pass 'em to I use my veins to create the color I paint from Delve into self 'til my heart becomes my paint brush I told my mama I'm not stoppin' 'til my name's up Thinking those comments on that blog is gonna save us Searchin' for everything but God to validate you Get insecure and then we start blaming the haters Used to look to women to fill a part of me that was vacant Truth, the only thing that I ever used in moderation So I stare into this paper instead of sitting at a cubicle Take all the ugly shit inside and try to make it beautiful Use the cement from rock bottom and make it musical So the people can relate to where I've been Where I'm going, what I've seen, what I've heard From the guts, fuck the glory Just a person on a porch putting it all into recording Many in my past and many that came before me I just keep walkin' my path and blessed to share my story

Oh girl, this boat is sinking There's no sea left for me And how the sky gets heavy When you are underneath it! Oh. I want to sail away from here. And god. He came down down down down down down down down And said (down down down down down down down down) Nothing (down down down down down down down down) He rolled up, asked him what he was sippin' on He said lean, You want to hit it, dawg? That's the same stuff Weezy's sippin' huh? And tons of other rappers that be spittin' hard, Yup yup five a bone When he passed him that Styrofoam the Easter pink, heard it in a rhyme before Finally got to see what all the hype was on And then he took a sip, sittin' in the Lincoln thinkin' he was pimpin' as he listen To the system Little did he know that it was just as addictive as bass Not the kind of hit from the kick drum Hot box, let the bass bump Take it to the face, gulp Months later the use went up Every blunt was accompanied by the pink stuff But Goddamn he loved that feelin' Purple rain coated in the throat Just so healin' Medicine alleviate the sickness Liquid affix and it comes with a cost Wake up, cold sweat, scratchin', itchin' Trying to escape the skin that barely fit him Gone, get another bottle just to get a couple swallows Headed towards the bottom couldn't get off it Didn't even think he had a problem Though he couldn't sleep without gettin' nauseous Room spinnin', Thinkin' he might've sipped just a little bit too much of that cough syrup His eyelids closed shut Sat back in the chair clutchin' that cup Girlfriend came and a couple hours later said his name shim but he never got up He never got up, he never got up We live on the cusp of death thinkin' that it won't be us It won't be us, it won't be us, it won't be us Nah, it won't be us Oh girl, this boat is sinking There's no sea left for me And how the sky gets heavy When you are underneath it! Oh. I want to sail away from here. And god. He came down down down down down down down down And said (down down down down down down down down) Nothing (down down down down down down down down) He just wanted to act like them He just wanted to rap like him Us as rappers underestimate the power and the effects that we have on these kids Blunt passed, ash in a tin, pack being pushed, harassed by the feds The fact of it is most people that rap like this Talkin' about some shit they haven't lived Surprise, you know the drill Trapped in a box, declined record sales Follow the formula violence, drugs, and, sex sells So we try to sound like someone else This is not Californication There's no way to glorify this pavement Syrup, Percocet, and an eighth a day will leave you Broke, depressed, and emotionally vacant Despite how Lil Wayne lives It's not conducive to being creative And I know 'cause he's my favorite And I know 'cause I was off that same mix Rationalize the shit that I'd try after I listen to dedication But he's an alien, I'd sip that shit, pass out or play Playstation Months later I'm in the same place No music made, feeling like a failure And trust me it's not dope to be 25 and move back to your parent's basement I've seen my people's dreams die I've seen what they can be denied And "weeds not a drug" - that's denial Groundhog Day life repeat each time I've seen Oxycontin take three lives I grew up with them, we used to chief dimes I've seen cocaine bring out the demons inside Cheatin' and lyin' Friendship cease, no peace in the mind Stealin' and takin' anything to fix the pieces inside Broken, hopeless, headed nowhere Only motivation for what the dealer's supplying That rush, that drug, that dope Those pills, that crumb, that roach Thinkin' I would never do that, not that drug And growing up nobody ever does Until you're stuck, lookin' in the mirror like I can't believe what I've become Swore I was gonna be someone And growing up everyone always does We sell our dreams and our potential To escape through that buzz Just keep me up, keep me up Hollywood here we come Oh girl this boat is sinking There's no sea left for me And how the sky gets heavy When you are underneath it Oh, I want to sail away from here And god. He came down down down down down down down And said Nothing