Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Kevin

I seen ^Cpain, I felt the losses Attended ^Ffunerals and seen coffins Twenty-one years ^Emold, an angel was lost here Wings ^D5clipped by the grip of 80 milligram sniffs of ^COxycontin everyday through the nostrils ^FNever went away, never does it stop there ^EmDeath a line or two away and a couple tall cans ^D5 Cause you never know when God is gonna call, man ^CPrecious, what we all share ^FI said peace at 5:30, the next time that I saw him Was in the ^Emhands of the pallbearer What if I would've never ^D5gone and dropped him off there? Blaming myself, in hysterics,^C screaming "It's not fair!" Twenty-one years old with a ^Fbook of rhymes he was gonna recite to the globe Only ^Emthing to numb the pain besides that shit in his nose He was ^D5gonna quit tomorrow, we're all gonna quit tomorrow NC Just get us through the weekend, and then Monday follows NC Then it's Wednesday, then it's "fuck it, I'm already feeling hollow" NC Might as well go crack a seal and might as well go chug a bottle NC Might as well go pop a pill and go and band-aid that problem And e^Cscape this world, vacate this world Cause ^FI hate myself No praying's gonna cure this ^Empain ^D5

Doctor ^Cplease,^F give me a dose of the A^Emmerican Dream ^D5 Put ^Cdown the pen and look in my ^Feyes ^Em We're in the waiting room^D5 and something ain't right ^{C F Em} All this is on you^D5, we're overprescribed

^C For me and Kev He ^Fwent up in jail, institutions are dead And with ^Emour lives, we play Russian Roulette And try to ^D5find a life where we could be content Cause for ^Cus, we're just trying to minimize The ^Ffear of being alive And now my ^Emlittle brother is in the sky From a ^D5pill that a doctor prescribed That a drug dealing ^Cbillion dollar industry supplied And the cops ^Fnever go and profile at night Yeah, the, the, ^Emthe orange plastic with the white top they sell to you ^D5Has us looking for the answers and that instead of you ^CQuick fix, whatever'll do, we just gonna neglect the truth ^FBecause a doctor with a license played God and said it's cool NC Played God and said it's cool NC But me? I don't blame Kev or his mom freebasing while pregnant with him NC I blame the pharmacy companies NC And country that spends trillions fighting the war they supplying themselves NC Politicians and business and jail NC Public defenders and judges who fail NC Look at Kevin, look at Kevin NC Now he's wrapped in plastic NC First dealer was his mom's medicine cabinet NC Got anxiety, better go and give him a Xanax NC Focus, give him Adderall, sleep, give him Ambien NC 'Til he's walking 'round the city looking like a mannequin NC Ups and downs, shooting up prescriptions you're handing him NC So America, is it really worth it? I'm asking you

Doctor ^Cplease,^Em give me a dose of the A^Ammerican Dream ^F Put ^Cdown the pen and look in my ^Emeyes ^Am We're in the waiting room^F and something ain't right ^{C Em Am} All this is on you,^F we're overprescribed

^C Doctor, your medicine^Am and your methods ^C Can't cure my disease^F without killing me ^C You're killing me^Am, you're killing me ^C You're killing me,^F you're killing me ^C Doctor, your medicine^Am and your methods ^C Can't cure my disease^F without killing me ^C You're killing me,^F you're killing me ^Em You're killing me,^F you're killing me