Excavate - Macklemore/Saint Claire.mp3

[00:18.22]Fill my lungs up, pour my heart out
[00:22.46]Peel my bones away
[00:27.16]Crack my window, shed my shadow
[00:31.70]Excavate my pain
[00:35.99]If I could read the world my notebook
[00:37.59]And these thoughts in it
[00:38.72]Would they judge me
[00:39.51]Or love me for what I've written?
[00:40.97]Tryna get closer to spirit that enters the body
[00:43.58]It's the vessel like I'm not in it
[00:45.38]In fifty-something years, I won't be here
[00:47.76]There'll be a kid
[00:48.43]With some headphones covering his ears
[00:50.13]Walking 'round a hallway, dreaming of ideas
[00:52.46]Find himself in the sound
[00:53.48]'Cause music is a mirror
[00:54.67]What you looking for? What you headed towards?
[00:56.82]What's your name worth when they mention yours?
[00:59.25]When you leave here, are you stepping forward?
[01:01.24]Can you remember your intention
[01:02.55]When they question yours?
[01:03.55]They're gonna question yours
[01:04.77]They're gonna question yours
[01:05.92]I've been at rock bottom and I'm headed North
[01:08.20]If you don't love yourself
[01:09.19]What's the respect for?
[01:10.25]If you don't love life
[01:11.48]The check won't correct yours
[01:12.94]Excavate
[01:13.75]Fill my lungs up, pour my heart out
[01:17.35]Peel my bones away
[01:22.20]Crack my window, shed my shadow
[01:26.53]Excavate my pain
[01:29.90]And I found peace
[01:34.58]And I found peace
[01:39.07]And I found peace
[01:40.40]I had this vision of my death
[01:41.70]Surrounded by people I love and respect
[01:43.93]And the baby blue Cadillac hearse
[01:46.27]Pulling me 'round the block that I rep
[01:48.90]The greatest fear that
[01:49.87]I've ever kept is dying with regrets
[01:53.20]Like was I just alive for success
[01:55.43]Or did I leave a better life for the rest?
[01:59.31]My greatest achievement isn't the dollars
[02:01.49]My greatest achievement isn't the followers
[02:03.48]My greatest achievement isn't the accolades
[02:05.99]My greatest achievement is my daughter
[02:08.10]Waking up in the morning, being a father
[02:10.95]Watching the light kiss her eyelids
[02:12.89]Hearing her sing along to Chance
[02:15.08]And being like, "yeah, that's my kid"
[02:17.83]The light started to glow
[02:19.23]And the saxophone funk called-train started to blow
[02:21.48]Tender, laying in the snow, turn on my headphones
[02:23.80]Couple miles to go before I run out of road
[02:26.14]Excavate
[02:26.93]Fill my lungs up, pour my heart out
[02:30.50]Peel my bones away
[02:34.87]Crack my window, shed my shadow
[02:39.93]Excavate my pain
[02:43.15]And I found peace
[02:47.55]And I found peace
[02:52.23]And I found peace
[02:56.74]And I found peace
[03:01.13]And I found
[03:02.97]Hold me up into the light
[03:04.81]And study every part of me
[03:07.15]I'm an open book, no, I don't mind
[03:09.34]But sometimes I'm hard to read
[03:11.19]Just flesh and bone, I'm headed home
[03:13.95]But this life is so hard to leave
[03:16.14]But who am I when they cut the lights
[03:18.56]And nobody's watching me?
[03:21.10]Hold me up into the light
[03:23.10]And study every part of me
[03:25.31]I'm an open book, no, I don't mind
[03:27.69]But sometimes I'm hard to read
[03:29.55]Just flesh and bone, I'm headed home
[03:32.24]But this life is so hard to leave
[03:34.57]But who am I when they cut the lights
[03:36.90]And nobody's watching me?
[03:39.14]Gemini