Victory Lap - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

[00:00.46]And they say Don't forget where you come from
[00:02.95]Don't die holding on to your words
[00:05.31]Cause you know you got a whole world to change
[00:08.29]But understand who you got to change first
[00:10.81]And I was like **** that humility bust back
[00:13.62]I was just a little shorty hoping that I could find a bum to buy a 40 for me
[00:20.21]And have enough for a bud sack
[00:22.17]Yeah and I dance on that instrumental
[00:24.65]Unorthodox like Basquiat with the pencil
[00:27.00]Give me a microphone and a beat box I could vent to
[00:29.72]Music the only medium that I could find myself through
[00:32.39]Recluse sipping on some lean I would let loose
[00:35.27]Looking in the mirror, watching myself lose
[00:37.57]Cleaned up in 08 got a job making barely minimum wage
[00:41.21]To get into that page
[00:42.67]Hit the road with RL performing in front of 8 people
[00:46.25]And that **** will check your ego
[00:48.47]About around that time I'm watching that EP go
[00:50.63]From nothing to getting us booked around the country
[00:53.20]I know no limits life can change in an instant
[00:55.87]8 People turn into sold out shows in a minute
[00:58.54]And I'm watching my pops in the back row grinning
[01:01.25]With his glass up to my mom toasting this Guinness
[01:04.38]And we on (we on)
[01:06.08]Good music it lies in the ambiance
[01:09.35]When we leave here
[01:10.41]Will these words live on
[01:11.62]Till then we keep on making the songs
[01:14.27]So put them up up up up up (so high)
[01:35.92]I remember that Freshman edition
[01:38.22]Last year thinking to myself like
[01:40.08]Yah nah I won't win it yet
[01:41.88]Probably won't get it but I'm gonna give it everything
[01:44.50]Play my position
[01:45.47]The next 11 months I gave it all everything I had in me
[01:48.89]Left blood sweat tears in every god damn city
[01:51.37]No label no deal no publicist, indie
[01:54.22]Just music that connected and fans that rode with me
[01:56.79]Throw me a gold mine and a co-sign
[01:59.51]While you're riding a couple **** rides
[02:01.17]2 women both dimes
[02:02.38]Not gonna lie that **** sounds so nice
[02:04.88]But I got creative control and my souls mine
[02:07.96]I wouldn't trade it maybe I'm crazy
[02:09.77]I put on for my city
[02:11.02]Seattle that raised me
[02:12.38]Rule 4080 it's really not changing
[02:15.04]Now a days make good music, the people are your label
[02:17.81]So put them up up up up up (so high)
[02:43.54]Oh my god feels like a victory lap
[02:48.17]
[02:56.20]Can I have that moment
[02:58.30]Can I talk my ****
[03:00.01]And they say Don't forget where you come from
[03:02.48]Don't die holding on to your words
[03:04.64]Cause you know you got a whole world to change
[03:07.85]But understand who you got to change first"
[03:10.12]Put them up up up up up
[03:13.15]Up up up up up
[03:16.72]Up up up up up
[03:17.52]Macklemore Ryan Lewis Seattle
[03:20.73]Put them up up up up up
[03:23.35]Up up up up up (so high)