Lyrics: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us

Can't Hold Us
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton

Macklemore
Return of the Mac, get em
What it is
What it does
What it is
What it isn't
Looking for a better way to get up out of bed
Instead of getting on the internet and checking out who hit me, get up
Thrift shop, pimp strut walking
Little bit of humble, little bit of cautious
Somewhere between like Rocky and Cosby
Sweater game nope nope y'all can't copy
Yup, Bad, moonwalking
This here, is our party
My posse's been on Broadway
And we did it our way
Grown music
I shed my skin and put my bones into everything I record to it
And yet I'm on
Let that stage light go and shine on down
Got that Bob Barker suit game and plinko in my style
Money, stay on my craft and stick around for those pounds
But, I do that to pass the torch and put on for my town
Trust me, on my I-N-D-E-P-E-N-D-E-N-T shit hustling
Chasing dreams since I was 14
With the four track bussing
Halfway cross that city with the backpack
Fat cat, crushing labels out here
Nah they can't tell me nothing
We give that to the people
Spread it across the country
Labels out here
Nah they can't tell me nothing
We give it to the people
Spread it across the country

Hook: (Ray Dalton)
Can we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we'll fight till it's over
So we put our hands up like the ceiling can't hold us
Like the ceiling can't hold us
Repeat

Now can I kick it, thank you
Yeah I'm so damn grateful
I grew up, really wanted gold fronts
But that's what you get when Wu-Tang raised you
Y'all can't stop me
Go hard like I got an 808 in my heart beat
And I'm eating at the beat like you gave a little speed to a great white shark on shark week
Raw. Time to go off. I'm gone!
Deuces goodbye. I got a world to see, and my girl she wanna see Rome
Caesar make you a believer
Nah I never ever did it for a throne
That validation comes from giving it back to the people.
Nah sing a song and it goes like
Raise those hands, this is our party
We came here to live life like nobody was watching
I got my city right behind me, if I fall, they got me
Learn from that failure gain humility and then we keep marching I said

Repeat Hook

Bridge
Na na na na na na na na
And all my people say
Repeat 3x

Ma-ckle-e-e-e-e-more

Repeat Hook

Let the night come, before the fight's won
Some might run against the test
But those that triumph, embrace the fight cause
Their fears then prove that courage exists

Hope 5x

Track is part of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' debut studio album "The Heist" released on October 9, 2012. Track was released as the third single from that album in August 16, 2011 and was re-released in 2013.
Written by Ben Haggerty, Ryan Lewis & Tricia Davis

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Ray Dalton - website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | @RayDaltonMusic

The Heist
01. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Ten Thousand Hours
02. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us
03. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Wanz - Thrift Shop
04. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Buffalo Madonna - Thin Line
05. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert - Same Love
06. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Make The Money
07. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Allen Stone - Neon Cathedral
08. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. The Teaching - BomBom
09. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Hollis & ScHoolboy Q - White Walls
10. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ab-Soul - Jimmy Iovine
11. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Wing$
12. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - A Wake
13. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Eighty4 Fly - Gold
14. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ben Bridwell - Starting Over
15. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Cowboy Boots