Leaving Heaven (feat. Skylar Grey)

[00:00.14] Yeah (I knew this day was coming)
[00:02.31] Sometimes, you gotta come back down (it's all going to hell now, man)
[00:06.36] Stoop to someone's level (yeah)
[00:08.58] Five dozen, flies buzzin' over your head
[00:11.26] Call me the Grim Reaper, sleep is my cousin
[00:13.49] You're dead to me now and I'ma be the last face you see
[00:16.37] 'Fore you die cussin' (yep)
[00:17.75] My eye a tiger's and I'm a survivor so I will rise up and (what?)
[00:21.88] Be triumphant 'cause when I'm looking at my legacy (leg, I see)
[00:25.14] Bunch of dogs tryna dry hump it
[00:27.02] Like Triumph The Puppet, so I'm like, "Fuck it"
[00:29.02] Pile the carnage up 'til it's so high, it's touching the sky
[00:31.98] Let 'em all line up and attack
[00:33.97] Single filing up in the stack
[00:36.14] Call 'em toy soldiers (yeah)
[00:38.36] 'Cause they just wind up on their backs
[00:40.45] Now the sky's nothing but black
[00:41.94] But I am not coming back, I done told ya
[00:43.80] I told the woke me to go to sleep
[00:45.46] But still, they keep on provoking me
[00:46.81] They're hoping to see me completely broken emotionally
[00:49.87] But how in the fuck am I not supposed to be woke
[00:51.83] When these fuckers just keep poking me? Now
[00:53.38] I'm leaving Heaven
[00:57.41] I'm leaving Heaven
[01:01.74] Angels won't find me
[01:05.92] Where I am going
[01:11.31] I've been down, kicked
[01:12.26] Like around six thousand times since I was a kid
[01:15.26] As a child, picked on, clowned
[01:17.45] Countless times I've been doubted
[01:19.31] Gotta remind myself of it every now and then (yeah)
[01:21.97] So the route I went's self-empowerment
[01:23.82] In a hole, taught myself how to get out of it
[01:26.49] And balance it with talents, wit
[01:27.93] 'Cause life is like a penny (life is like a penny)
[01:30.52] 'Cause it's only one percent
[01:31.97] Who overcome the shit they've underwent
[01:33.79] I went AWOL like what my back was up against
[01:36.00] Don't tell me 'bout struggle, bitch, I lived it
[01:38.31] I was five or six the first time I got my hind end kicked
[01:41.22] Malcolm, Isaac, and Boogie jumped me and took my tricycle
[01:44.32] And I don't know if I would call that white privilege, yeah
[01:47.70] But I get it, how it feels to be judged by pigment
[01:50.89] Besides getting it from both sides of the tracks
[01:52.96] But I swore I'd get them back
[01:53.96] Even if it meant selling my soul to get my revenge and (what?)
[01:56.54] Thought of a scheme and it got me to thinking
[01:57.91] If I can believe in myself, I could prolly achieve it
[01:59.57] That's part of the reason I do all my talking with ink
[02:01.41] And as long as I'm breathing I vow to smother and beat them
[02:03.22] My God, what a heart of a demon, go at 'em and I'ma get even
[02:05.24] Like I'm in the Garden of Eden, I'm 'bout to go off of the deep end
[02:07.54] This evil is calling, I'm already seething and
[02:08.71] I'm leaving Heaven
[02:12.95] I'm leaving Heaven
[02:17.08] Angels won't find me
[02:21.53] Where I am going
[02:25.56] Okay, so while Macklemore was keeping his room nice and neat (yeah)
[02:28.65] I was getting my ass beat twice a week (what?)
[02:30.50] Looking for a place for the night where I could sleep
[02:32.52] Flippin' sofa cushions over just tryin' to see
[02:34.66] If I could find some change and scrape up for a bite to eat
[02:36.67] If Denaun and me find a couple of dimes a piece
[02:38.65] 25 cents each'd get us a bag of chips
[02:40.66] We'd be glad to get that even we if we had to split
[02:42.90] We'd do backward flips, looking back at it
[02:44.47] I think that would fit with the definition of not having shit
[02:47.23] Couple that with the fact my mother was batshit
[02:48.90] Pop was a sack of shit, yeah, he died, but I gave half a shit
[02:51.67] Yeah, which brings me back to the dear ol' dad that I zero had
[02:54.65] Since a year-old, 47-year-old scab
[02:56.62] Just to hear them words, ear-piercing
[02:58.50] Like my earlobe stabbed with a needle for an earring
[03:01.15] Should I feel upset? You were dead to me 'fore you died
[03:03.81] Me? Tear no shed
[03:05.07] Should I have made a mural at your funeral?
[03:07.11] Had your coffin draped with a hero's flag?
[03:09.26] Where the fuck you were at
[03:10.18] When De'Angelo done hurt me real bad at the Rio Grande?
[03:13.29] Never met your grandkids, fucking coward
[03:15.37] Only gut you had was from your stomach fat
[03:17.30] I couldn't see your ass going to Heaven
[03:19.13] So I'm asking for a pass to go to Hell
[03:21.11] So I can whip your fucking ass
[03:22.71] I hate that I'll never get to say, "I hate you", to your face
[03:24.98] No coming back from where I'm going
[03:26.60] Sky is dark, my soul is black, hand on the shovel
[03:28.65] Dig with the blade of it then I step on the metal
[03:30.85] Vendetta to settle, tell the Devil
[03:32.55] I'm leaving Heaven (yeah)
[03:36.65] I'm leaving Heaven (you know, I should dig your motherfucking ass up)
[03:41.08] Angels won't find me (just to spit in your fucking face)
[03:45.12] Where I am going
[03:47.22] (Holding my baby pictures up like you're proud of me)
[03:49.43] I'm leaving heaven (fuck you, bitch)
[03:53.48] I'm leaving heaven (you know what? Maybe if I had had you)
[03:57.53] Angels won't find me (I wouldn't have went through half the shit I went through)
[04:00.70] (So I blame you)
[04:01.82] Where I am going (or maybe I should say, thank you)
[04:06.33] ('Cause I wouldn't have been me)
[04:07.68] So you better, you better run (yeah)
[04:12.07] You better, you better run (so I'ma let it go now, rest in peace)
[04:16.55] You better, you better run (cocksucker)
[04:20.59] You better, you better run (haha, see you in Hell)
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