BEN – AVAILABLE NOW https://macklemore.co/ben
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LYRICS: If you knew the day that you would die Pack your bags and tell your friends one last goodbye Would you give up all the blame? Would you fuck and fight the same? If you knew the day that you would die I made some mistakes, some mistakes, yeah Fuck it, those ones made me great, made me great When I kick the bucket, yeah Know I might be late, might be late But I’m coming Walk through Heaven’s gate with a tux Like, “wussupers?” I was left feeling unusual They going to have some stories at my funeral Never got accepted into music school But look what I did with music fool Aye, we’re all going to die, all going to die Left some ripples in the tide I had a pitbull in my mind And I trained them over time Take off the fucking leash and go and walk around outside And realize nothing’s permanent Except birth and death and find some gratitude Between the two of them, a Gemini, two sides Cadillac two-tone hearse pulls me down I-5 God calling me home, I can’t leave nothing behind Life, one hell of a ride, we ain’t getting out alive If you knew the day that you would die Pack your bags and tell your friends one last goodbye Would you give up all the blame? Would you fuck and fight the same? If you knew the day that you would die Bright lights, big city dreams Sunglasses at night, I’m going to wear them to sleep Climb the highrise, hang from the scaffolding If I fall then I fall Fuck it, they’ll remember me I got 30 thousand steps until my death (until my death) Less than 20 thousand breaths in me left (in me left) And if this the last night that I get (that I get) Then I already spent my regrets (no regrets) Run that motherfucking tab, tell the teller fill the bag Fuck a mask, I’m going to throw all of this cash on the ave Give my Mercedes’ keys, put them in a stranger’s hands Whisper to him “live fast and enjoy it while you can” This is now, screaming from my lungs You can hear my howl Taste the blood dripping off my tongue Yeah, it’s going down Headed up loved ones only got a couple hours To the world “bon voyage” Say my vows and I’m out like If you knew the day that you would die Pack your bags and tell your friends one last goodbye Would you give up all the blame? Would you fuck and fight the same? If you knew the day that you would die
