Leaving Heaven (feat. Skylar Grey) [Official Audio]

[00:00.78] Yeah (I knew this day was coming)

[00:04.30] Sometimes, you gotta come back down (It's all going to hell now, man)

[00:06.79] Stoop to someone's level (Yeah)

[00:08.54] Five dozen, flies buzzin' over your head

[00:11.30] Call me the Grim Reaper, sleep is my cousin

[00:13.31] You dead to me now and I'ma be the last face you see

[00:16.29] 'Fore you die cussin'

[00:17.80] My eye a tiger's and I'm a survivor so I will rise up and (What?)

[00:21.54] Be triumphant 'cause when I'm looking at my legacy (Leg, I see)

[00:25.82] Bunch of dogs gonna tryna dry hump it

[00:27.76] Like Triumph The Puppet, so I'm like, "Fuck it"

[00:29.28] Pile the carnage up 'til its so high, it's touching the sky

[00:32.30] Let 'em all line up and attack

[00:33.80] Single filing up in the stack

[00:35.76] Call 'em toy soldiers (Yeah)

[00:38.56] 'Cause they just wind up on their backs

[00:40.29] Now the sky's nothing but black

[00:42.29] But I am not coming back, I done told ya

[00:43.53] I told the woke me to go to sleep

[00:45.54] But still, they keep on provoking me

[00:47.30] They're hoping to see me completely broken emotionally

[00:49.80] But how in the fuck am I not supposed to be woke

[00:52.05] When these fuckers just keep poking me? Now

[00:55.54] I'm leaving Heaven

[00:58.30] I'm leaving Heaven

[01:01.54] Angels won't find me

[01:05.77] Where are you going?

[01:10.51] I've been down, kicked

[01:12.56] Like around six thousand times since I was a kid

[01:15.04] As a child, picked on, clowned

[01:16.80] Countless times I've been outed

[01:19.80] Gotta remind myself of it every now and then (Yeah)

[01:22.30] So the route I went's self-empowerment

[01:24.03] In a hole, taught myself how to get out of it

[01:26.04] And balance it with talents, wit

[01:28.04] 'Cause life is like a penny (Life is like a penny)

[01:29.51] 'Cause it's only one percent

[01:30.78] Who overcome the shit

[01:33.04] They've underwent

[01:34.27] I went AWOL like what my back was up against

[01:35.52] Don't tell me 'bout struggle, bitch, I lived it

[01:37.55] I was five or six the first time I got my hind end kicked

[01:40.27] Malcolm, Isaac, and Boogie jumped me and took my tricycle

[01:44.51] And I don't know if I would call that white privilege, yeah

[01:47.56] But I get it, how it feels to be judged by pigment

[01:50.55] Besides getting it from both sides of the tracks

[01:52.79] But I swore I'd get them back

[01:54.27] Even if it meant selling my soul to get revenge and (What?)

[01:56.80] Thought of a scheme and it got me to thinking

[01:58.55] If I can believe in myself, I could prolly achieve it

[02:01.05] That's part of the reason I do all my talking with ink

[02:03.54] And as long as I'm breathing I vow to smother and beat them

[02:06.54] Got a heart of a demon, go at 'em and I'ma get even

[02:07.53] Like I'm in the Garden of Eden, I'm 'bout to go off of the deep end

[02:08.28] This evil is calling, I'm already seething and

[02:09.54] I'm leaving Heaven

[02:12.27] I'm leaving Heaven

[02:16.77] Angels won't find me

[02:20.78] Where are you going?

[02:25.30] Okay, so while Macklemore was keeping his room nice and neat (Yeah)

[02:28.51] I was getting my ass beat twice a week (What?)

[02:30.54] Looking for a place for the night where I could sleep

[02:32.54] Flippin' sofa cushions over just tryin' to see

[02:34.29] If I could find some change and scrape up for a bite to eat

[02:36.54] If Denaun and me find a couple dimes a piece

[02:38.57] Twenty five cents each'd get us a bag of chips

[02:40.53] We'd be glad to get that even we if we had to split

[02:42.54] We'd do backward flips, looking back at it

[02:44.29] I think that would fit with the definition of not having shit

[02:46.05] Couple that with the fact my mother was batshit

[02:47.79] Pop was a sack of shit, yeah, he died, but I gave half a shit

[02:50.80] Yeah, which brings me back to the real dad that I zero had

[02:54.29] Since a year-old, forty-seven year-old scab

[02:55.79] Just to hear them words, ear piercing

[02:58.07] Like my earlobe stabbed with a needle for an earring

[03:00.28] Should I feel upset? You were dead to me 'fore you died

[03:02.52] Me? Tear no shed

[03:04.55] Should I have made a mural at your funeral?

[03:06.78] Had your coffin draped with a hero's flag?

[03:08.54] Where the fuck you were at

[03:10.30] When De'Angelo done hurt me real bad at the Rio Grande?

[03:12.05] Never met your grandkids, fucking coward

[03:14.81] Only gut you had was from your stomach fat

[03:17.55] I couldn't see your ass gonna Heaven

[03:18.83] So I'm asking for a pass to go to Hell

[03:20.56] So I can whip your fucking ass

[03:22.27] I hate that I'll never get to say "I hate you" to your face

[03:24.04] No coming back from where I'm going

[03:26.30] Sky is dark, my soul is black, hand on the shovel

[03:28.05] Dig with the blade up, and then I step on the metal

[03:30.06] Vendetta to settle, tell the Devil

[03:32.04] I'm leaving Heaven (Yeah)

[03:36.30] I'm leaving Heaven (You know, I should dig your motherfucking ass up)

[03:42.01] Angels won't find me (Just to spit in your fucking face)

[03:44.79] Where are you going? (Holding my baby pictures up like you're proud of me)

[03:49.29] I'm leaving heaven (Fuck you, bitch)

[03:52.55] I'm leaving heaven (You know what? Maybe if I had had you)

[03:57.04] Angels won't find me (I wouldn't have went through half the shit I went through, so I blame you)

[04:00.80] Where are you going? (Or maybe I should say, "Thank you")

[04:05.30] ('Cause I wouldn't have been me)

[04:07.81] So you better, you better run (Yeah)

[04:10.55] You better, you better run (So I'ma let it go now, rest in peace)

[04:13.77] You better, you better run (Cocksucker)

[04:20.02] You better, you better run (See you in Hell)