2009 - Mac Miller

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[Chorus]
             
I don't need t

        
o lie no more
            
Nowadays all I

              
 do is shine, 

       
take a breath 

and ease my mi

nd, and
             
She don't cry 

   
no more
             
She tell me th


at I get her h

igh 'cause a a

ngel's s'posed

 to fly, and
             
I ain't askin'

            
, "Why?" no mo

re
          
Oh, no, I take

 it if it's mi

ne, I don't st

ay inside the 

lines
            
It ain't 2009 

   
no more
            
Yeah, I know w

              
hat's behind t

    
hat door

[Verse 1]
              
Yeah, okay you

             
 gotta jump in

    
 to swim
            
Well, the ligh

              
t was dim in t

    
his life of si

n
             
Now every day 

              
I wake up and 

 
breathe

I don't have i

t all but that

's alright wit

h me
             
Take it nice a

              
nd easy, took 

  
a flight to se

e me

Send you back 

home with a li

ght that's bea

min'
            
The whole team

          
 'bout to figu

re it out
            
We ice cold, t

              
hat's what win

      
ter about
              
And sometimes,

             
 sometimes I w

             
ish I took a s

impler route
            
Instead of hav

              
in' demons tha

       
t's as big as 

my house, mhmm
             
Have a ball wi

      
th a dribble a

nd bounce
            
'Cause the par

              
ty ain't over 

              
'til they're k


ickin' me out,

 yeah
             
Isn't it funny

         
? We can make 

a lot of money

Buy a lot of t

hings just to 

feel a lot of 

ugly
        
    I was yay 

high and muddy

Lookin' for wh

at was lookin'

 for me

[Chorus]
             
But I don't ne

             
ed to lie no m

ore
            
Nowadays all I

              
 do is shine, 

       
take a breath 

and ease my mi

nd, and
             
She don't cry 

    
no more
            
She tell me th

at I get her h

igh 'cause a a

ngel's s'posed

 to fly, and
             
I ain't askin'

           
, "Why?" no mo

re
           
Oh, no, I take

 it if it's mi

ne, I don't st

ay inside the 

lines
            
It ain't 2009 

   
no more
            
Yeah, I know w

              
hat's behind t

     
hat door

[Verse 2]
             
Yeah, they ask

              
 me what I'm s

       
milin' for
            
Well, because 

              
I've never bee

       
n this high be

fore
             
It's like I ne

              
ver felt alive


 before
      
Mhmm, I'd rath

er have me pea

ce of mind tha

n war
             
See me and you

      
, we ain't tha

t different

I struck the f

uck out and th

en I came back

 swingin'
            
Take my time t

            
o finish, mind

 my business
            
A life ain't a

              
 life 'til you

 
 live it
              
I was diggin' 

             
me a hole big 

           
enough to bury

 my soul
            
Weight of the 

              
world, I gotta

 
 carry my own
             
My own, with t

              
hese songs I c

   
an carry you h

ome

I'm right here

 when you scar

ed and alone
              
And I ain't ne

         
ver in a hurry
           
You don't ever

 gotta worry
            
Even when it's

              
 7:30 and the 

              
time is runnin

  
' low
          
When your hear

t get cold
            
See what's beh

              
ind all them u


nturned stones
             
And I'm a pro 

              
when it come t

      
o my job
            
But really I'm

              
 just tryna st

     
art believin' 

in God
             
Now when it ge

   
ts hard
            
I don't panic,

              
 I don't sound

     
 the alarm

[Chorus]
             
Because I don'

              
t need to lie 

   
no more
            
Nowadays all I

              
 do is shine, 

       
take a breath 

and ease my mi

nd, and
            
She don't cry 

    
no more
            
She tell me th

at I get her h

igh 'cause a a

ngel's s'posed

 to fly, and
             
I ain't askin'

            
, "Why?" no mo

re
           
Oh, no, I take

 it if it's mi

ne, I don't st

ay inside the 

lines
            
It ain't 2009 

    
no more
            
Yeah, I know w

              
hat's behind t

    
hat door
             
I don't need t

         
o lie no more
            
Nowadays all I

              
 do is shine, 

        
take a breath 

and ease my mi

nd, and
             
She don't cry 

    
no more
             
She tell me th


at I get her h

igh 'cause a a

ngel's s'posed

 to fly, and
             
I ain't askin'

           
, "Why?" no mo

re
        
Oh, no, I take

 it if it's mi

ne, I don't st

ay inside the 

lines
            
It ain't 2009 

   
no more
      
Yeah, I know w

hat's behind t

hat door

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