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


Macklemore - website | Facebook | SoundCloud | @macklemore
Ryan Lewis - Facebook | @RyanLewis
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

Lyrics: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert - Same Love



Same Love
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Mary Lambert


When I was in the third grade I thought that I was gay,
'Cause I could draw, my uncle was, and I kept my room straight.
I told my mom, tears rushing down my face
She's like "Ben you've loved girls since before pre-k, trippin' "
Yeah, I guess she had a point, didn't she?
Bunch of stereotypes all in my head.
I remember doing the math like, "Yeah, I'm good at little league"
A preconceived idea of what it all meant
For those that liked the same sex
Had the characteristics
The right wing conservatives think it's a decision
And you can be cured with some treatment and religion
Man-made rewiring of a predisposition
Playing God, aw nah here we go
America the brave still fears what we don't know
And God loves all his children, is somehow forgotten
But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five-hundred years ago
I don't know

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

If I was gay, I would think hip-hop hates me
Have you read the YouTube comments lately?
"Man, that's gay" gets dropped on the daily
We become so numb to what we're saying
A culture founded from oppression
Yet we don't have acceptance for 'em
Call each other faggots behind the keys of a message board
A word rooted in hate, yet our genre still ignores it
Gay is synonymous with the lesser
It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color, the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that led people to walk outs and sit ins
It's human rights for everybody, there is no difference!
Live on and be yourself
When I was at church they taught me something else
If you preach hate at the service those words aren't anointed
That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned
When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless
Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen
I might not be the same, but that's not important
No freedom till we're equal, damn right I support it

(I don't know)

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

We press play, don't press pause
Progress, march on
With the veil over our eyes
We turn our back on the cause
Till the day that my uncles can be united by law
When kids are walking 'round the hallway plagued by pain in their heart
A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are
And a certificate on paper isn't gonna solve it all
But it's a damn good place to start
No law is gonna change us
We have to change us
Whatever God you believe in
We come from the same one
Strip away the fear
Underneath it's all the same love
About time that we raised up... sex

And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
And I can't change
Even if I tried
Even if I wanted to
My love
My love
My love
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm
She keeps me warm

Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is patient
Love is kind
(not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
(not crying on Sundays)
Love is kind
(I'm not crying on Sundays)
Love is patient
Love is kind

Fourth single released from their debut album "The Heist" released October 9, 2012. Written by Ben Haggerty, Ryan Lewis, Mary Lambert & Curtis Mayfield.

Macklemore - website | Facebook | SoundCloud | @macklemore
Ryan Lewis - Facebook | @RyanLewis
Mary Lambert - website | Facebook | @marylambertsing

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

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