Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Irish Celebration Lyrics

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Irish Celebration Video

I'm an Irishman

Leather weathered Irish skin

Beard orange as the sunset over the flag

In the night sky we fly it in

Pride for the life we fight to live

History, I write with it

Spit it with the dialect

And this is a celebration of course

The green, white, orange

And when they pulled up on that shore

First generation born

Toast to those that made it on a boat to New York

And when the English came the colonizer came

They filled up bottles of gasoline, turned 'em into balls of flame

And hurled 'em to protect what's ours

Don't touch these lucky charms

Whole bunch of Irish screaming Fuck the London Guard

I'm kidding not dissin' London, it's bloody raw

But go against the Irish and get a bloody jaw

Preaching nonviolence but reminds of the scars

Unify us, put a pint up everybody sing a song

 

We put our glass to the sky and lift up

And live tonight 'Cause you can't take it with ya

So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us

And live tonight 'Cause you can't take it with ya

 

We put our glass to the sky and lift up

And live tonight 'Cause you can't take it with ya

So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us

And live tonight 'Cause you can't take it with ya

 

From New England to New Brunswick

Galway to Dublin

A rebellious nation of freckled face hustlers

Heart, blue collared workers and family

My heritage, proud to be a Haggerty

Now with whiskey in our veins

Claiming were the bravest men

I drank Old Crow, but pretended it was Jameson

Dad sipped Guiness, I sipped Old English

'Til he sat me down at 16 and said boy, this is what a beer is

I put down the drink, couldn't drink like a gentleman

That doesn't mean I can't make a drinking song for the rest of 'em

Challenge us in football, yeah we might lose

But don't put us next to a bar stool

We take the history, script it in song

Light the torch then you pass it on

That's right I said, lineage through the rhythm we script it from the palm

And we give til' Ireland is on

Bottoms Up

 

We put our glass to the sky and lift up

And live tonight 'Cause you can't take it with ya

So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us

And live tonight 'Cause you can't take it with ya

 

We put our glass to the sky and lift up

And live tonight 'Cause you can't take it with ya

So raise a pint for the people that aren't with us

And live tonight 'Cause you can't take it with ya

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Otherside Lyrics

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Otherside Video

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 listened to the system

Little did he know that it was just as addictive as base

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 to fix 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, shook him 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

 

Now 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 to climb 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 parents' 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 cheef 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 goin' to 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..............

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop Lyrics

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop Video

Hey, Macklemore, can we go thrift shopping?

 

Macklemore:

What? What? What? What?

What? What? What? What?

What? What? What? What?

What? What? What? What?

What? What? What? What?

What? What? What? What?

What? What? What? What?

What? What? What? What?

 

Wanz:

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got twenty dollars in my pocket

I'm, I'm, I'm hunting, looking for a come up

This is fucking awesome

 

Macklemore:

Walk into the club like What up? I got a big cock!

Nah, I'm just pumped, bought some shit from a thrift shop

Ice on the fringe is so damn frosty

People like Damn, that's a cold-ass honky!

 

Rolling in hella deep, headed to the mezzanine

Dressed in all pink except my gator shoes, those are green

Draped in a leopard mink, girl standing next to me

Probably shoulda washed this, smells like R. Kelly's sheets (Piss)

But shit, it was ninety-nine cents!

 

Bag it, copping it, washing it, 'bout to go and get some compliments

Passing up on those moccasins someone else been has walking in

Bummy and grudgy, fucking it, I am stunting and flossing and

Saving my money and I'm hella happy, that's a bargain, bitch

 

Imma take your grandpa's style

Imma take your grandpa's style

No for real, ask your grandpa

Can I have his hand-me-downs? (Thank you!)

 

Velour jumpsuit and some house slippers

Dookie brown leather jacket that I found, dig it

They had a broken keyboard, I bought a broken keyboard

I bought a skeet blanket, then I bought a knee board

 

Hello, hello, my ace man, my Mello

John Wayne ain't got nothing on my fringe game, hell no

I could take some Pro Wings, make them cool, sell those

The sneaker heads would be like Ah, he got the Velcros!

 

Wanz:

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got twenty dollars in my pocket

I'm, I'm, I'm hunting, looking for a come up

This is fucking awesome

 

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got twenty dollars in my pocket

I'm, I'm, I'm hunting, looking for a come up

This is fucking awesome

 

Macklemore:

What you know about rocking a wolf on your noggin?

What you knowing about wearing a fur fox skin?

I'm digging, I'm digging, I'm searching right through that luggage

One man's trash, that's another man's come up

 

Thank your granddad for donating that plaid button-

Up shirt, 'Cause right now, I'm up in here stuntin'

I'm at the Goodwill, you can find me in the (Uptons)

I'm that, I'm that sucker searching in this section (Uptons)

 

Your grammy, your aunty, your momma, your mammy

I'll take those flannel zebra jammies, secondhand and rock that motherfucker

The built-in onesie with the socks on that motherfucker

I hit the party and they stop in that motherfucker

 

They be like Oh that Gucci, that's hella tight!

I'm like Yo, that's fifty dollars for a t-shirt!

Limited edition, let's do some simple addition

Fifty dollars for a t-shirt, that's just some ignorant bitch shit

I call that getting swindled and pimped, shit

 

I call that getting tricked by a business, that shirt's hella dough

And having the same one as six other people in this club is a hella don't

Peep game, come take a look through my telescope

Trying to get girls from a brand, man, you hella won't

Man, you hella won't

 

(Goodwill... poppin' tags... yeah!)

 

Wanz:

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got twenty dollars in my pocket

I'm, I'm, I'm hunting, looking for a come up

This is fucking awesome

 

I'll wear your granddad's clothes

I look incredible

I'm in this big ass coat

From that thrift shop down the road

 

I wear your granddad's clothes (Damn right)

I look incredible (C'mon!)

I'm in this big ass coat (Big ass coat)

From that thrift shop down the road

 

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got twenty dollars in my pocket

I'm, I'm, I'm hunting, looking for a come up

This is fucking awesome

 

Is that your grandma's coat?

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us Lyrics

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us Video

Macklemore:

Return of the Mack, get up!

What it is, what it does, what it is, what it isn't

Looking for a better way to get up out of bed

Instead of getting on the internet and checking a new hit

 

We get up, fresh out, pimp strut walking

Little bit of humble, little bit of cautious

Somewhere between like, Rocky and Cosby, Sweater Gang

Nope, nope. Y'all can't copy.

 

Yup. Bad, moonwalkin'. This here, is our party.

My posse's been on Broadway and we did it our way

Grown music

I shed my skin and put my bones into everything I record to it

And yet I'm on

 

Let that stage light go and shine on down

Got the Bob Barker suit game and Plinko in my style

Money, stay on my craft and stick around for those pounds

But I do that to pass the torch and put on for my town

Trust me, I'm a I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T shit hustler

 

Chasing dreams since I was fourteen

With the four track, busing halfway cross that city with the backpack

Caution, labels out here, nah they can't tell me nothing

We give that to the people, spread it across the country

Labels out here, nah they can't tell me nothing

We give it to the people, spread it across the country

 

Ray Dalton:

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

Macklemore:

Now, can I kick it? Thank you

Yeah I'm so damn grateful

I grew up really wanting gold fronts

But that's what you get when Wu-Tang raised you

Y'all can't stop me, I go hard like I've got an 808 in my heart beat

And I'm eating at the beat

Like you gave a little speed to a great white shark on Shark Week

(Raw! Time to go off. Gone)? Deuces, goodbye

I've got a world to see;

And my girl, she wanna see Rome

Caesar'll make you a believer

Nah, I never ever did it for a throne

That validation comes

So I'm giving it back to the people now

Sing that song and it goes like...

Raise those hands, this is our party

We came here to live life like nobody was watching

I got my city right behind me;

If I fall they got me

Learn from that failure, gain humility

Then we keep marching, I said

 

Ray Dalton:

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

All:

And all my people say

Na na nana na nana na.

And all my people say

Na na nana na nana na.

 

And all my people say

Na na nana na nana na.

And all my people say

Na na nana na nana na.

 

Mack-le-more

 

Ray Dalton:

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Same Love Lyrics

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Same Love Video

When I was in the third grade

I thought that I was gay

'Cause I could draw, my uncle was,

And I kept my room straight

 

I told my mom, tears rushing down my face

She's like, Ben, you've loved girls since before pre-k.

Trippin', yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she?

 

A bunch of stereotypes all in my head

I remember doing the math like

Yeah, I'm good at little league.

 

A pre-conceived idea of what it all meant

For those who liked the same sex had the characteristics

The right-wing conservatives think it's a decision

 

And you can be cured with some treatment and religion

Man-made, rewiring of a pre-disposition

Playing God

 

Ahh nah, here we go

America the brave

Still fears what we don't know

 

And God loves all His children is somehow forgotten

But we paraphrase a book written

Thirty five hundred years ago

I don't know

 

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

My love, my love, my love

She keeps me warm

She keeps me warm

She keeps me warm

She keeps me warm

 

If I was gay

I would think hip-hop hates me

Have you read the YouTube comments lately

Man, that's gay

Gets dropped on the daily

We've become so numb to what we're sayin'

Our culture founded from oppression

Yeah, we don't have acceptance for 'em

Call each other faggots

Behind the keys of a message board

A word rooted in hate

Yet our genre still ignores it

Gay is synonymous with the lesser

It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion

Gender to skin color

Complexion of your pigment

The same fight that led people to walk-outs and sit-ins

Human rights for everybody

There is no difference

Live on! And be yourself!

 

When I was in church

They taught me something else

If you preach hate at the service

Those words aren't anointed

And that holy water

That you soak in

Is then poisoned

When everyone else

Is more comfortable

Remaining voiceless

Rather than fighting for humans

That have had their rights stolen

 

I might not be the same

But that's not important

No freedom 'til we're equal

Damn right I support it

I don't know

 

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

My love, my love, my love

She keeps me warm

She keeps me warm

She keeps me warm

She keeps me warm

 

We press play

Don't press pause

Progress, march on!

With a veil over our eyes

We turn our back on the cause

'Til the day

That my uncles can united by law

Kids are walkin' around the hallway

Plagued by pain in their heart

A world so hateful

Someone would rather die

Than be who they are

And a certificate on paper

Isn't gonna solve it all

But it's a damn good place to start

No law's gonna change us

We have to change us

Whatever god you believe in

We come from the same one

Strip away the fear

Underneath it's all the same love

About time that we raised up

 

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

And I can't change

Even if I tried

Even if I wanted to

My love, my love, my love

She keeps me warm

She keeps me warm

She keeps me warm

She keeps me warm

 

Love is patient, love is kind

Love is patient (not cryin' on Sundays)

Love is kind (not crying on Sundays)

Love is kind (not crying on Sundays)

Love is kind (not crying on Sundays)

Love is kind (not crying on Sundays)

Love is kind (not crying on Sundays)

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop Lyrics

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop Video

Macklemore:

Wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha, wha...

 

Wanzz:

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got $20 in my pocket

I-I-I'm huntin' lookin' for a come-up

This is fucking awesome

 

Macklemore:

Now,

Walk into the club like what up I got a big cock

I'm so pumped I bought some shit from a thrift shop

Ice and the fringe are so damn frosty

The people like damn thats a cold ass honky

Rollin' in hella deep headed to the mezzanine

Dressed in all pink 'cept my gator shoes those are green draped in a leopard mink girls standin' next to me

Probably shoulda washed this it smells like R. Kelly's sheets

Pissssssssss

But shit it was 99 cents

If I get coppin' it washin' it

Bout to go and get some compliments passin' off in those moccasins

Someone else has been walkin' in but me and grungie fuck 'em in

I am stuffed in your closet and

Savin my money and I'm hella happy thats a bargain bitch

I'ma take your grandpa style, I'ma take your grandpa style

No for real, ask your grandpa can I have his hand-me-downs

Velour jumpsuit and some house slippers doukie brown leather jacket that I found diggin'

They had a broken keyboard, I bought a broken keyboard

I bought a ski blanket, then I bought a kneeboard

Hello hello my ace man my mellow

John Wayne ain't got nothin' on my fringe game

Hello!

I can take some pro wings make 'em cool sell those

The sneaker heads will be like

Awww he got the velcro's

 

Wanz:

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got $20 in my pocket

I-I-I'm huntin' lookin' for a come-up

This is fucking awesome

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got $20 in my pocket

I-I-I'm huntin' lookin' for a come-up

This is fucking awesome

 

Macklemore:

Whatcha know 'bout rockin' the wolf on your noggin

Whatcha knowin' about wearin' a fur fox skin

I'm diggin', I'm diggin', I'm searchin' right through that luggage

One man's trash that's another man's come-up

Thank ya grand dad for donating that plaid button

Up shirt 'cause right now I'm up in her skirts

I'm at the Goodwill you can find me in the

I'm not I'm not I'm not searchin' in that section

Your Grammy your Auntie your Momma your Mammy

I'll take those flannel zebra jammies secondhand I rock that mothafucka

They built a onesie with the socks on the mothafucka

I hit the party and they stopped in that mothafucka

They be like oh! That Gucci that's hella tight. I'm like Yo! thats $50 for a t-shirt

Limited edition let's do some simple addition $50 for a t-shirt that's just some ignorant bitch shit

I call that getting swindled and pitched shit

I call that getting tricked by a business

That shirts hella dope and that bliss same one on six other people in this club is a hella don't

Eat game come take a look through my telescope

Tryna get girls with my brand man you hella won't

Man you hella won't

(Goodwill! Poppin' tags! Yeah!)

 

Wanz:

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got $20 in my pocket

I-I-I'm huntin' lookin' for a come-up

This is fucking awesome

I'll wear your grand dad's clothes

I look incredible

I'm in this big ass coat from that thrift shop down the road

I'll wear your grand dad's clothes

I look incredible

I'm in this big ass coat from that thrift shop down the road

I'm gonna pop some tags

Only got $20 in my pocket

I-I-I'm huntin' lookin' for a come-up

This is fucking awesome

 

Little Girl:

Is that your grandma's coat?

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Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Feat. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us Lyrics

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Feat. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us Video

Ey ey, ey

Good to see you, c'mon let's go

Yeah, let's go

Alright, alright, okay, ah, alright, okay

Alright, okay

 

Return of the Mack', get up, what it is, what it does, what it is, what it isn't

Looking for a better way to get up out of bed

Instead of getting on the Internet and checking a new hit

We get up, fresh out, pimp strut walking

Little bit of humble, little bit of cautious

Somewhere between like, Rocky and Cosby, Sweater Gang

Nope, Nope. y'all can't copy that

Bad, moonwalkin', this here, is our party

My posse's been on Broadway, and we did it our way, Grown music

I shed my skin and put my bones into everything, I record to it

And yet I'm on, Let that stage light go and shine on down

Got the Bob Barker suit game and Plinko in my style

Money

Stay on my craft and stick around for those pounds

But I do that to pass the torch and put on for my town

Trust me, on my I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T shit hustling

Chasing dreams since I was 14

With the 4 track, bussin'

Halfway cross that city with the backpack, fat cat, crush shit

Labels out here, nah they can't tell me nothing

We give it to the people, spread it across the country

Labels out here, nah they can't tell me nothing

We give it to the people, spread it across the country

 

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

Now, can I kick it? Thank you

Yeah I'm so damn grateful

I grew up really wanting gold fronts, but that's what you get when Wu-Tang raised you

Y'all can't stop me, I go hard like I've got an 808 in my heart beat

And I'm meeting at the beat like you gave a little speed to a great white shark on shark

Week raw. Tell me go up. Gone! Deuces, goodbye, I've got a world to see

And my girl, she wanna see Rome

Caesar make you a believer, nah

I never ever did it for a throne

That validation comes, so I'm giving it back to the people now

Sing that song and it goes like

 

Raise those hands, this is our party

We came here to live life like nobody was watching

I got my city right behind me

If I fall they got me learn from that failure, gain humility

And then we keep marching, I said

 

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

So we put our hands up

So we put our hands up

 

(Let's go) Na, na, nana, na, na, nana, na

And all my people say'

Na, na, nana, na, na, nana, na (thats right, feels good)

And all my people say

Na, na, nana, na, na, nana, na

And all my people say

Na, na, nana, na, na, nana, na

 

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

 

Can we go back, this is the moment

Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over

So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us

Like the ceiling can't hold us

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