Starting Over (feat. Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses)

Starting Over - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (麦克莫和瑞恩·刘易斯)/Ben Bridwell (班伯威尔)
One  two now  that's three plus years  I was so proud of
And I threw 'em all away for two styrofoam cups
The irony: everyone will think that he lied to me;
Made my sobriety so public--there's no f**king privacy
If I don't talk about it then I carry a date:
A 08-10-08  that now has been changed
And when they put me in some box as a saint
That I never was  it's the false prophet that never came
And will they think that everything that I written has all been fake
Or will I just take my slip to the grave
Uh  what the f**k are my parents gonna say
The success story that got his life together and changed
And you know what pain looks like
When you tell your dad to relapsed
Then look him directly into his face
The seat on your shoulders  the seemingly heavy weight
I haven't seen tears like this on my girl in a while
The trust that I once built's been betrayed
But I'd rather live telling the truth than be judged for my mistakes
Than falsely held up  given props  loved and praised
I guess I gotta get this on the page
Feeling sick and helpless  lost the compass where self is
I know what I gotta do and I can't help it
One day at a time is what they tell us
Now I gotta find a way to tell them
God help em
One day at a time is what they tell us
Now I gotta find a way to tell them
We fell so hard
Now we gotta get back what we lost  lost
I felt you'd go
But you were with me all along  along
And every kid that came up to me
And said I was the music they listened to
When they first got clean
Now look at me  a couple days sober
I'm fighting demons  back of that meeting on the east side
Shaking  tweakin'  hope that they don't see it
Hope that no one is looking
That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie
Was posted in the back with my hands crossed  shooken
If they call on me I'm passing;
If they talk to me I'm booking out that door
But before I can make it somebody stops me
And says are you Macklemore
Maybe this isn't the place or time
I just wanted to say that if it wasn't for Otherside
I wouldn't have made it
I just look down at the ground and say  "Thank you "
She tells me she has nine months and that she's so grateful
Tears in her eyes  looking like she's gonna cry    f**k
I barely got 48 hours  treated like I'm some wise monk
I wanna tell her I relapsed but I can't
I just shake her hand and tell her congrats
Get back to my car and I think I'm tripping yea
'Cause God wrote 'Otherside'  that pen was in my hand
I'm just a flawed man  man I f**ked up up
Like so many others I just never thought I would
I never thought I would  didn't pick up the book
Do in it by myself didn't turn out that good
If I can be an example of getting sober
Then I can be an example of starting over
If I can be an example of getting sober
Then I can be an example of starting over
We fell so hard
Now we gotta get back what we lost  lost
I felt you'd go
But you were with me all along  along
We fell so hard
Now we gotta get back what we lost  lost