Macklemore, Ryan Lewis - Vipassana lyrics
[Macklemore, Ryan Lewis - Vipassana lyrics]
"Vipassana is a science of mind and
Matter: how the mind is influencing
The body and later how the
Body is influencing the mind"
Yesterday? Forget it
Tomorrow is? Nada
The present is right here
Through the breath, watch it
Atheist Jesus piece, hangin' on a cross
We sit and discuss God on lawn chairs
About how we got here
What it is, what it isn't, shit
Fate versus faith
Scrimmaging with coincidence
Leave out the marketing
Hold up on the business end
Focus on the genuine, and everything else
You can shed the skin
I was a couple moves away from being dead
In that ER overdosing, eyes bleeding red
I fell in love, made an album, got a buzz
Lost it all, sobered up, and guess what?
Now we meet again
And now I'm back, finally just laughin'
Expectations are resentments waiting
To happen studying the dharma, karma
Vipassana practice bahá'u'lláh, Buddha, God
To the mountaintop and I'm traveling
Learning, yes, reflecting on what matters
People, impermanence, lack of attachments
It's space and time
A couple of man made distractions
The measure of a spirit that
No human can ever capture
Church, this booth is my Vatican
I don't control life
But I can control how I react to it
Student of the breath
Brick beats and balancin'
Desire versus truth until I
Finally find happiness
Passing through space and time
Passing through space and time, oh
Passing through space and time
Space and time space and time
I was put here to do something
Before I'm lying in that casket
I'd be lying on the beat if I
Said I didn't know what that is
The world's a stage and we play a character
I found him
It took me twenty-something years and
A bunch of shitty soundchecks
I'm not gonna be content
Until I find gratitude
Regardless of my sales or the
Record deals they're handing you
If the next generation takes our
Legacy and samples you
We'll have a bunch of mp3s and
Misled kids to pass 'em to
I use my veins to create
The color I paint from
Delve into self 'til my heart
Becomes my paint brush
I told my mama I'm not
Stoppin' 'til my name's up
Thinking those comments on that blog
Is gonna save us
Searchin' for everything but God
To validate you get insecure and then we
Start blaming the haters
Used to look to women to fill a
Part of me that was vacant
Truth, the only thing that I
Ever used in moderation
So I stare into this paper instead
Of sitting at a cubicle
Take all the ugly shit inside and
Try to make it beautiful
Use the cement from rock bottom
And make it musical
So the people can relate to where I've been
Where I'm going, what I've seen
What I've heard
From the guts, fuck the glory
Just a person on a porch
Putting it all into recording
Many in my past and many that came before me
I just keep walkin' my path and
Blessed to share my story
Passing through space and time
Passing through space and time, oh
Passing through space and time
Space and time space and time
Matter: how the mind is influencing
The body and later how the
Body is influencing the mind"
Yesterday? Forget it
Tomorrow is? Nada
The present is right here
Through the breath, watch it
Atheist Jesus piece, hangin' on a cross
We sit and discuss God on lawn chairs
About how we got here
What it is, what it isn't, shit
Fate versus faith
Scrimmaging with coincidence
Leave out the marketing
Hold up on the business end
Focus on the genuine, and everything else
You can shed the skin
I was a couple moves away from being dead
In that ER overdosing, eyes bleeding red
I fell in love, made an album, got a buzz
Lost it all, sobered up, and guess what?
Now we meet again
And now I'm back, finally just laughin'
Expectations are resentments waiting
To happen studying the dharma, karma
Vipassana practice bahá'u'lláh, Buddha, God
To the mountaintop and I'm traveling
Learning, yes, reflecting on what matters
People, impermanence, lack of attachments
It's space and time
A couple of man made distractions
The measure of a spirit that
No human can ever capture
Church, this booth is my Vatican
I don't control life
But I can control how I react to it
Student of the breath
Brick beats and balancin'
Desire versus truth until I
Finally find happiness
Passing through space and time
Passing through space and time, oh
Passing through space and time
Space and time space and time
I was put here to do something
Before I'm lying in that casket
I'd be lying on the beat if I
Said I didn't know what that is
The world's a stage and we play a character
I found him
It took me twenty-something years and
A bunch of shitty soundchecks
I'm not gonna be content
Until I find gratitude
Regardless of my sales or the
Record deals they're handing you
If the next generation takes our
Legacy and samples you
We'll have a bunch of mp3s and
Misled kids to pass 'em to
I use my veins to create
The color I paint from
Delve into self 'til my heart
Becomes my paint brush
I told my mama I'm not
Stoppin' 'til my name's up
Thinking those comments on that blog
Is gonna save us
Searchin' for everything but God
To validate you get insecure and then we
Start blaming the haters
Used to look to women to fill a
Part of me that was vacant
Truth, the only thing that I
Ever used in moderation
So I stare into this paper instead
Of sitting at a cubicle
Take all the ugly shit inside and
Try to make it beautiful
Use the cement from rock bottom
And make it musical
So the people can relate to where I've been
Where I'm going, what I've seen
What I've heard
From the guts, fuck the glory
Just a person on a porch
Putting it all into recording
Many in my past and many that came before me
I just keep walkin' my path and
Blessed to share my story
Passing through space and time
Passing through space and time, oh
Passing through space and time
Space and time space and time