[ti:Excavate] [ar:Macklemore/Saint Claire] [al:GEMINI] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Excavate - Macklemore/Saint Claire [00:09.23]Written by:Saint Claire/Macklemore [00:18.47]Fill my lungs up pour my heart out peel my bones away [00:25.72] [00:27.69]Grab my window shut my shutters excavate my pain [00:34.90] [00:36.56]If I could read the world my notebook and these thoughts in it [00:39.08]Would they judge me or love me for what I've written [00:41.36]Tryna get closer to spirit that enters the body [00:43.56] [00:44.09]It's the vessel like I'm not in it [00:45.78]In fifty something years I won't be here [00:48.04]There'll be a kid with some headphones covering his ears [00:50.45]Walking 'round a hallway dreaming of ideas [00:52.12] [00:52.63]Find himself in the sound 'cause music is a mirror [00:55.00]What you looking for what you headed towards [00:57.07]What's your name worth when they mention yours [00:59.47]When you leave here are you stepping forward [01:01.57]Can you remember your intention when they question yours [01:03.74]They're gonna question yours they're gonna question yours [01:06.07]I've been at rock bottom and I'm headed north [01:08.38]If you don't love yourself what's the respect for [01:10.62]If you don't love life the check won't correct yours [01:13.28]Excavate [01:13.50]Fill my lungs up pour my heart out peel my bones away [01:20.43] [01:22.22]Grab my window shut my shutters excavate my pain [01:29.67] [01:30.57]And I found peace [01:34.07] [01:34.83]And I found peace [01:38.14] [01:39.14]And I found peace [01:40.64]I had this vision of my death [01:42.17]Surrounded by people I love and respect [01:43.89] [01:44.48]And the baby blue Cadillac hearse [01:46.75]Pulling me 'round the block that I rep [01:48.28] [01:49.23]The greatest fear that I've ever kept is dying with regrets [01:53.02] [01:53.83]Like was I just alive for success [01:55.31] [01:55.98]Or did I leave a better life for the rest [01:57.70] [01:59.67]My greatest achievement isn't the dollars [02:01.11] [02:01.92]My greatest achievement isn't the followers [02:03.32] [02:04.12]My greatest achievement isn't the accolades [02:05.69] [02:06.46]My greatest achievement is my daughter [02:07.94] [02:08.56]Waking up in the morning being a father [02:10.13] [02:11.19]Watching the light kiss her eyelids [02:12.32] [02:13.50]Hearing her sing along to chance [02:14.59] [02:15.61]And being like yeah that's my kid [02:17.22] [02:18.12]The light started to glow [02:19.58]And the saxophone funk called train started to blow [02:21.64]Tender laying in the snow turn on my headphones [02:23.98]Couple miles to go before I run out of road [02:26.54]Excavate [02:26.88]Fill my lungs up pour my heart out peel my bones away [02:33.58] [02:35.53]Grab my window shut my shutters excavate my pain [02:42.88] [02:43.64]And I found peace [02:47.30] [02:48.06]And I found peace [02:51.89] [02:52.61]And I found peace [02:56.41] [02:57.37]And I found peace [03:00.81] [03:01.68]And I found peace [03:03.04]Hold me up into the light and study every part of me [03:06.71] [03:07.48]I'm an open book no I don't mind but sometimes I'm hard to read [03:11.24] [03:11.95]Just flesh and bone I'm headed home [03:14.32]But this life is so hard to leave [03:15.83] [03:16.54]But who am I when they cut the lights and nobody's watching me [03:20.31] [03:21.39]Hold me up into the light and study every part of me [03:24.87] [03:25.81]I'm an open book no I don't mind but sometimes I'm hard to read [03:29.44] [03:30.25]Just flesh and bone I'm headed home [03:32.56]But this life is so hard to leave [03:33.99] [03:34.83]But who am I when they cut the lights and nobody's watching me [03:38.58] [03:39.85]Gemini