[Intro] Okay, okay Yeah And we live tonight Check it, now [Verse 1 Macklemore] I seen pain, I felt the losses Attended funerals and seen coffins Twentyoneyearsold, an angel was lost here Wings clipped by the grip of eighty milligram sniffs Of OxyContin every day 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 gonna call, man Precious, what we all share I said peace at 530, the next time that I saw im Was in the hands of the pallbearer What if I wouldve never gone and dropped him off there? Blaming myself, in hysterics, screaming Its not fair! Twentyoneyearsold With a book of rhymes, he was gonna recite to the globe Only thing to numb the pain besides that shit in his nose He was gonna quit tomorrow, were all gonna quit tomorrow Just get us through the weekend, and then Monday follows Then its Wednesday, then its fuck it, Im already feeling hollow Might as well go crack a seal and might as well go chug a bottle Might as well go pop a pill and go and bandaid that problem And escape this world, vacate this world Cause I hate myself, no prayings gonna cure This pain [Chorus Leon Bridges] Doctor, please Give me a dose of the American Dream Put down the pen and look in my eyes Were in the waiting room And something aint right Doctor, please Put down the pen and look in my eyes All this is on you Were overprescribed [Verse 2 Macklemore] For me and Kev You end up in jail, institutions or dead And with our lives, we play Russian Roulette And try to find a life where we could be content Cause for us, were just trying to minimize The fear of being alive And now my little brother is in the sky From a pill that a doctor prescribed That a drugdealing billion dollar industry supplied That 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, whateverll do, we just gon neglect the truth Because a doctor with a license played God and said its cool Played God and said its cool But me? I dont blame Kev Or his mom freebasing while pregnant with him I blame the pharmacy companies and country that spends Trillions fighting a war they supplying themselves Politicians and business and jail Public defenders and judges who fail Look at Kevin, look at Kevin, now hes wrapped in plastic First dealer was his moms medicine cabinet Got anxiety, better go and give him a Xanax Focus, give him Adderall, sleep, give him Ambien Til hes walking round the city looking like a mannequin Ups and downs shifted by prescriptions youre handin him So America, is it really worth it? Im asking ya [Chorus Leon Bridges] Doctor, please Give me a dose of the American Dream Put down the pen and look in my eyes Were in the waiting room Woah, woah, hey, hey And something aint right Woah, woah, hey, hey Woah, woah, hey, hey All this is on you Woah, woah, hey, hey Were overprescribed [Outro Leon Bridges] Doctor, your medicine And your methods Cant cure my disease Without killing me Youre killing me Youre killing me Youre killing me Youre killing me Doctor, your medicine And your methods Cant cure my disease Without killing me Youre killing me Youre killing me Youre killing me Youre killing me Doctor, please
woah, killing, doctor, hey, twentyoneyearsold