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[Kyzer]

Premiered with a live performance at the AMAs

Here's the song:

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsong...lemore-ryan-lewis-song-featuring-leon-bridges

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
I seen pain, I felt the losses
Attended funerals and seen coffins
21 years old, an angel was lost here
Wings clipped by the grip of 80 milligram sniffs of oxycontin
Everyday through the nostrils
Never went away, never does it stop there
Death a line or two away and a couple tall cans
Cause you never know when God is gonna call, man
Precious, what we all share
I said peace at 5:30, the next time that I saw him was in the hands of the pallbearer
What if I would've never gone and dropped him off there?
Blaming myself, in hysterics, screaming "It's not fair!"
21 years old with a book of rhymes he was gonna recite to the globe
Only thing to numb the pain besides that shit in his nose
He was gonna quit tomorrow, we're all gonna quit tomorrow
Just get us through the weekend, and then Monday follows
Then it's Wednesday, then it's "fuck it, I'm already feeling hollow"
Might as well go crack a seal and might as well go chug a bottle
Might as well go pop a pill and go and band-aid that problem
And escape this world, vacate this world
Cause I hate myself
No praying's gonna cure this pain

[Hook: Leon Bridges]
Doctor, please, give me a dose of the American Dream
Put down the pen and look in my eyes
We're in the waiting room and something ain't right
All this is on you, we're overprescribed

[Verse 2: Macklemore]
For me and Kev
He went up in jail, institutions are dead
And with our lives, we play Russian Roulette
And try to find a life where we could be content
Cause for us, we're just trying to minimize the fear of being alive
And now my little brother is in the sky
From a pill that a doctor prescribed
That a drug deal a million dollar industry supplied
And the cops never go and profile at night
Yeah, the, the, the orange plastic with the white top they sell to you
Has us looking for the answers and not instead of you
Quick fix, whatever'll do
We just gonna neglect the truth
Because a doctor with a license played God and said it's cool
Played God and said it's cool
But me? I don't blame Kev or his mom freebasing while pregnant with him
I blame the pharmacy companies
And country that spends trillions fighting the war they supplying themselves
Politicians and business and jail
Public defenders and judges who fail
Look at Kevin, look at Kevin
Now he's wrapped in plastic
First dealer was his mom's medicine cabinet
Got anxiety, better go and give him a Xanax
Focus, give him Adderall, sleep, give him Ambien
'Til he's walking 'round the city looking like a mannequin
Ups and downs, shooting up prescriptions you're handing him
So America, is it really worth it? I'm asking you

[Hook: Leon Bridges]
Doctor, please, give me a dose of the American Dream
Put down the pen and look in my eyes
We're in the waiting room and something ain't right
All this is on you, we're overprescribed

[Outro: Leon Bridges]
Doctor, your methods, any of your methods
Can't cure my disease without killing me
You're killing me, you're killing me
You're killing me, you're killing me
Doctor, your methods, any old methods
Can't cure my disease without killing me
You're killing me, you're killing me
You're killing me, you're killing me

The song is kinda okay, Leon Bridges is really the star here.

And in terms of content, while there's certainly some heartfelt experiences being conveyed, I don't at all agree with the idea of spreading the concept that the pharmaceutical industry is to blame for these issues. They don't prescribe drugs, they develop medicine. I agree that we are over-prescribed in a sense, there's definitely a drug to every condition nowadays, but to blame scientists, physicians, doctors, for these personal experiences is not right. While there might be some corrupt doctors here and there, for the most part they are trying to help people the best they can, and there are are all sorts of regulations and policies to prevent addicts from getting drugs, scientists are constantly developing new drugs that are hard to abuse, and at the end of the day, addicts aren't getting their drugs from pharmaceutical companies, they are getting them from drug dealers. Macklemore's recent relapse has clearly influenced his music, and its important to be a beacon to others with similar afflictions, but I wish he wouldn't spread conspiracy theories. Bugs me that so many people are applauding his righteousness and that he's airing out the "dirty secrets of big pharma". Especially since I have so many friends so deeply involved in both sides of this issue, as addicts, and as doctors/PAs.

 

[Zombine]

Leon Bridges is dope as fuck. Coming Home is an amazing song:

http://youtu.be/MTrKkqE9p1o

Hopefully this collab gives him an even bigger push.

 

[bobbychalkers]

I like it, I ignored the AMAs so I didn't know he dropped a new song. Leon tho.....Dude picks strong features.