Starting Over Lyrics - The Heist - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

One, two now, that's three plus years, I was so proud of. 

And I threw 'em all away for 2 styrofoam cups. 

The irony: everyone will think that he lied to me; 

made my sobriety so public there's no fucking privacy. 

If I don't talk about it then I carry a date: 

a 08-10-08, that now has been changed. 

and when they put me in some box as a saint 

that I never was, it's the false prophet that never came. 

And will they think that everything that I written has all been fake 

Or will I'll just take my slip to the grave 

Uh, what the fuck are my parents gonna say? 

The success story that got his life together and changed 

And you know what pain looks like 

When you tell your dad to relapse then look him directly into his face. 

The seat on your shoulder's the seemingly heavy weight 

I haven't seen tears like this on my girl 

In a while, the trust that I once built's been betrayed. 

But I'd rather live telling the truth than be judged for my mistakes 

Then falsely held up, given props, loved and praised 

I guess I gotta get this on the page. 

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Feeling sick and helpless, lost the compass where self is. 

I know what I gotta do and I can't help it. 

One day at a time is what they tell us. 

Now I gotta find a way to tell them. 

God help 'em 

One day at a time is what they tell us 

Now I gotta find a way to tell them 

[Hook] 

We fell so hard 

Now we gotta get back what we lost. lost. 

I felt you'd go 

But you were with me all along. along. 

Photos 

And every kid that came up to me 

And said I was the music they listened to when they first got clean 

Now look at me, a couple days sober 

I'm fighting demons 

Back of that meeting on the east side 

Shaking tweakin', hope that they don't see it 

Hope that no one is looking 

That no one recognizes that failure under that hoodie 

Was posted in the back with my hands crossed shooken 

If they call on me I'm passing, if they talk to me I'm booking out that door 

But before I can make it somebody stops me and says are you Macklemore? 

Maybe this isn't the place or time 

I just wanted to say that if it wasn't for other side I wouldn't have made it 

I just look down at the ground and say thank you 

She tells me she has 9 months and that she's so grateful 

Tears in her eyes, looking like she's gonna cry. fuck! 

I barely got 48 hours, treated like I'm some wise monk 

I wanna tell her I relapsed but I can't 

I just shake her hand and tell her congrats 

Get back to my car and I think I'm tripping yea 

Cuz God wrote Otherside, that pen was in my hand 

I'm just a flawed man, man I fucked up up 

Like so many others I just never thought I would 

I never thought I would, didn't pick up the book 

Doin' it by myself, didn't turn out that good 

If I can be an example of getting sober 

Then I can be an example of starting over 

If I can be an example of getting sober 

Then I can be an example of starting over 

We fell so hard 

Now we gotta get back what we lost. lost. 

I felt you'd go 

But you were with me all along. along. 

We fell so hard 

Now we gotta get back what we lost. lost.