Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song A Wake , by - Macklemore. Release date: 08.10.2012
Age restrictions: 18+
Song language: English
A Wake |
| I need love |
| You need love |
| Give me love |
| And I’ll give you my love |
| They say thirty’s the new twenty |
| And twenty’s the new thirty, shit I guess |
| Makes sense, 'cause fifteen-year-olds seem twenty |
| And twenty-five -year-olds seem ten |
| I used to drink away my paycheck |
| Celebrate the mistakes I hadn’t made yet |
| Our generation isn’t the best on safe sex |
| We forget the latex, becoming Planned Parenthood patients |
| Synthetic heroin is the new basehead |
| So much to escape, fuck a straight edge |
| Walk around looking through a fake lens |
| Apps this good, who’s got time to make friends? |
| I wish I didn’t care |
| If cynical hispters with long hair |
| And cocaine problems, like my music |
| It’s not my issue, I can’t solve it |
| My flight has finally landed down |
| And the ground has stopped moving all around |
| Eyes open, awake for the very first time |
| We both forfeit this game of crime |
| They say, «It's so refreshing to hear somebody on records |
| No guns, no drugs, no sex, just truth» |
| The guns — that’s America, the drugs are what they gave to us |
| And sex sells itself, don’t judge 'til it’s you |
| Ah, I’m not more or less conscious |
| Than rappers rapping 'bout them strippers up on a pole, popping |
| These interviews are obnoxious |
| Saying that «It's poetry, you’re so well spoken,"stop it |
| I grew up during Reaganomics |
| When Ice T was out there on his killing cops shit |
| Or Rodney King was getting beat on |
| And they let off every single officer |
| And Los Angeles went and lost it |
| Now every month there’s a new Rodney on YouTube |
| It’s just something our generation is used to |
| And neighbourhoods where you never see a news crew |
| Unless they’re gentrifying, white people don’t even cruise through |
| And my subconscious telling me stop it |
| This is an issue that you shouldn’t get involved in |
| Don’t even tweet «R.I.P Trayvon Martin» |
| Don’t wanna be that white dude million-man marching |
| Fighting for a freedom that my people stole |
| Don’t wanna make all my white fans uncomfortable |
| «But you don’t even have a fuckin' song for radio |
| Why you out here talking race, trying to save the fucking globe?» |
| Don’t get involved if the cause isn’t mine |
| White privilege, white guilt, at the same damn time |
| So we just party like it’s 1999 |
| Celebrate the ignorance while these kids keep dying |
| My flight has finally landed down |
| And the ground has stopped moving all around |
| Eyes open, awake for the very first time |
| We both forfeit this game of crime |
| I need love |
| You need love |
| Give me love |
| And I’ll give you my love |