Kevin
(专辑: This Unruly Mess I've Made - 2016)
OK, OK Yeah And we live tonight Check it, now [Macklemore:] I
seen pain, I
felt the
losses Attended funerals and seen coffins 21-years-old, an angel was lost here Wings clipped by the
grip of 80 milligram sniffs of OxyContin Every day through the
nostrils Never went away, never does it stop there Death a
line or two away and a
couple tall cans 'Cause you never know when God is gonna call, man Precious, what we all share I
said peace at 5:30, the
next time that I
saw him was in the
hands of the
pallbearer What if I
would've never gone and dropped him off there? Blaming myself, in hysterics, screaming "It's not fair!" 21-years-old with a
book of rhymes he was gonna recite to the
globe Only thing to numb the
pain besides that shit in his nose He was gonna quit tomorrow, we're all gonna quit tomorrow Just get us through the
weekend, and then Monday follows Then it's Wednesday, then it's "Fuck it, I'm already feeling hollow" Might as well go crack a
seal and might as well go chug a
bottle Might as well go pop a
pill and go and band-aid that problem And escape this world, vacate this world 'Cause I
hate myself No praying's gonna cure this pain [Leon Bridges:] Doctor, please, give me a
dose of the
American Dream Put down the
pen and look in my eyes We're in the
waiting room and something ain't right All this is on you, we're over-prescribed [Macklemore:] For me and Kev He went up in jail, institutions or dead And with our lives, we play Russian Roulette And try to find a
life where we could be content 'Cause for us, we're just trying to minimize the
fear of being alive And now my little brother is in the
sky From a
pill that a
doctor prescribed That a
drug-dealing billion dollar industry supplied That the
cops never go and profile at night Yeah, the, the, the
orange plastic with the
white top they sell to you Has us looking for the
answers in that instead of you Quick fix, whatever'll do We just gonna neglect the
truth Because a
doctor with a
license played God and said it's cool Played God and said it's cool But me? I
don't blame Kev or his mom freebasing while pregnant with him I
blame the
pharmacy companies And country that spends trillions fighting a
war they supplying themselves Politicians and business and jail Public defenders and judges who fail Look at Kevin, look at Kevin Now he's wrapped in plastic First dealer was his mom's medicine cabinet Got anxiety, better go and give him a
Xanax Focus, give him Adderall, sleep, give him Ambien 'Til he's walking 'round the
city looking like a
mannequin Ups and downs, shifted by prescriptions you're handing him So America, is it really worth it? I'm asking you [Leon Bridges:] Doctor, please, give me a
dose of the
American Dream Put down the
pen and look in my eyes We're in the
waiting room and something ain't right All this is on you, we're over-prescribed Doctor, your medicine and your methods Can't cure my disease without killing me You're killing me, you're killing me You're killing me, you're killing me Doctor, your medicine and your methods Can't cure my disease without killing me You're killing me, you're killing me You're killing me, you're killing me