[Verse 1: Macklemore]
Return of the Mack, get up!
What it is, what it does, what it is, what it isn't.
Looking for a better way to get up out of bed,
Instead of getting on the Internet and checking a new hit.
We get up, thrift shop,
Pimp [bad word] walking,
Little bit of humble, little bit of cautious,
Somewhere between like, Rocky and Cosby, Sweater Gang.
Nope, nope, y'all can't copy that
Bad moonwalkin', this, here, is our party.
My posse's been on Broadway, and we did it our way.
Grown music,
I shed my skin and put my bones
Into everything I record to it,
And yet I'm on,
Let that stage light go and shine on down,
Got the Bob Barker suit game
And Plinko in my style, money!
Stay on my craft and stick around for those pounds,
But I do that to pass the torch and put on for my town.

Can we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we’ll fight till it’s over
So we put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us like the ceiling can’t hold us
Can we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we’ll fight till it’s over
So we put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us like the ceiling can’t hold us.

 [bad word] me, on my i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-t [bad word] hustlin'.
Chasing dreams since I was 14,
With the 4 track, bussing,

Halfway cross that city with the backpack, fat cat [bad word] #39;.

Labels out here, nah, they can't tell me nothing,
We give it to the people, spread it across the country.
Labels out here, nah, they can't tell me nothing,
We give it to the people, spread it across the country.

Can we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we’ll fight till it’s over
So we put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us like the ceiling can’t hold us
Can we go back, this is the moment
Tonight is the night, we’ll fight till it’s over
So we put our hands up like the ceiling can’t hold us like the ceiling can’t hold us.