Macklemore - Excavate Chords

[Chorus: Saint Claire]

Em

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Fill my lungs up, pour my heart out, peel my bones away
 G                 C             G                  Em
Crack my window, shed my shadow, excavate my pain


[Verse 1: Macklemore]

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If I could read the world my notebook and these thoughts in it
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Would they judge me or love me for what I've written?
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Tryna get closer to spirit that enters the body
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It's the vessel like I'm not in it
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In fifty-something years, I won't be here
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There'll be a kid with some headphones coverin' his ears
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Walkin' 'round a hallway, dreamin' of ideas
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Find himself in the sound 'cause music is a mirror
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What you looking for? What you headed towards?
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What's your name worth when they mention yours?
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When you leave here, are you stepping forward?
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Can you remember your intention when they question yours?
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They're gonna question yours, they're gonna question yours
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I've been to rock bottom and I'm headed North
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If you don't love yourself, what's the respect for?
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If you don't love life, the check won't correct yours

Excavate


[Chorus: Saint Claire]

G                 C                  Em
Fill my lungs up, pour my heart out, peel my bones away
G                 C               Em
Crack my window, shed my shadow, excavate my pain
G                    C
And I found peace
            Em
And I found peace
      G
And I found peace


[Verse 2: Macklemore]

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I had this vision of my death
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Surrounded by people I love and respect
                 Em
In the baby blue Cadillac hearse
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Pullin' me 'round the block that I rep
                  Em                    G
The greatest fear that I've ever kept
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Is dying with regrets
                Em                   G
Like was I just alive for success?
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Or did I leave a better life for the rest?
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My greatest achievement isn't the dollars
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My greatest achievement isn't the followers
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My greatest achievement isn't the accolades
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My greatest achievement is my daughter
Em                        G
Wakin' up in the morning, bein' a father
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Watchin' the light kiss her eyelids
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Hearin' her sing along to Chance
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And bein' like, "Yeah, that's my kid"
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The light started to glow
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And the saxophone from Coltrane started to blow
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Tender, laying in the snow, turn on my headphones
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Couple miles to go before I run out of road
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Excavate


[Chorus: Saint Claire]
G                  C                 Em
Fill my lungs up, pour my heart out, peel my bones away
 G               C                Em
Crack my window, shed my shadow, excavate my pain
G                   C
And I found peace
            Em
And I found peace
      G           C
And I found peace
            Em
And i found peace



[Outro: Macklemore]
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Hold me up into the light and study every part of me
        Em               G                C
I'm an open book, no, I don't mind, but sometimes I'm hard to read
      Em                  G                     C
Just flesh and bone, I'm headed home, but this life is so hard to leave
     Em                  G                 C
But who am I when they cut the lights and nobody's watching me?
  G                             C
Hold me up into the light and study every part of me
         Em               G               C
I'm an open book, no, I don't mind, but sometimes I'm hard to read
       Em                  G                     C
Just flesh and bone, I'm headed home, but this life is so hard to leave
      Em                G                 C
But who am I when they cut the lights and nobody's watching me?
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