Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - Kevin lyrics

rate me

Ft. Leon Bridges

(Verse)

I seen pain, I felt the losses

Attended funerals and seen coffins

Twenty one years old, an angel was lost here

Wings clipped by the grip of eighty milligram sniffs of oxycontin

Everyday 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 goin' to 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 neva gone and dropped him off there?

Blamin' myself, in hysterics, screaming 'It's not fair'

Twenty one years old with a book of rhymes he was goin' to recite to the globe

Only thing to numb the pain besides that shit in his nose

He was goin' to quit tomorrow, we're all goin' to quit tomorrow

Just get us through the weekend, and then Monday follows

Then it's Wednesday, then it's 'fuck it, I'm already feelin' hollow'

Might as well go crack a seal and might as well go chug a bottle

Might as well go pop a pill and band-aid that problem

And escape this world, vacate this world

Cause I hate myself

No praying's goin' to cure this pain

(Hook: 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 waitin' room and sumethin' ain't right

All this is on you, we're overprescribed

(Verse 2: Macklemore)

For me and Kev

He went up in jail, institutions are 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 lil brother is in the sky

From a pill that a doctor prescribed

That a drug dealing billion dollar industry supplied

And 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 and that instead of you

Quick fix, whateva will do

We just goin' to 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 freebasin' while pregnant with him

I blame the pharmacy companies

And country that spends trillions fightin' the war they supplyin' 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, betta go and give him a Xanax

Focus, give him Adderall, sleep, give him Ambien

Till he's walkin' 'round the city looking like a mannequin

Ups and downs, shootin' up prescriptions you're handing him

So America, is it really worth it? I'm asking you

(Hook)

(Outro: Leon Bridges)

Doctor, your medicine and your methods

Can't cure my disease without killing me

You're killin' me, you're killin' me (x2)

Doctor, your medicine and your methods

Can't cure my disease without killing me

You're killin' me, you're killin' me (x2)