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Mac Miller

Wings

Release date: 3rd August 2018

From Swimming
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About This Track

The sixth track on 'Swimming', 'Wings' opens with an instrumental that conveys helplessness, almost as if suspended in a dark void. Mac Miller picks through motives and gossip with a bone-to-pick posture, then shifts to riding through the breeze with wind in his face, refusing to stop when it feels so great. The lyric moves from confrontation to a kind of forward momentum, the walls getting wider whilst he hopes never to find them.

The second verse finds him moving so fast the clock looks slow, watering seeds until the flower grows, playing it by ear with silence all he hears. He asks who can surf the universe with him, notes that trust has been a problem, and declares that all he ever wants is what he needs. The chorus repeats the simple assertion of autonomy and self-possession, a declaration of independence framed as flight.

"Wings" is a track by Mac Miller, from the album Swimming, released 3rd August 2018. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Mac Miller

Mac Miller

Lyrics

Wings

[Intro]

Yeah, well

[Verse 1]

I got a bone to pick like roses (Roses)

I ain't feelin' broken no more

Balled a fist, they gossipin', I notice

Talkin' shit, I wander through the motives

Wonder who the fuck we're supposed to be

I ain't worried now 'til I leave

I'm just tryna ride and feel the breeze

With somethin' bad beside n' next to me

Wind in my face, don't stop now when it feels so great

You can run 'til you slip on the sidewalk

And the same bone that you picked gon' break, that's a motif

(That's a motif) Yeah

When it's comin' right back, so familiar, never been realer

Never felt so damn good where I'm at

I don't know what it's all about

Runnin' through too many thoughts to count (That's way better)

Still ain't addin' up, I'll let you know when I've had enough, yeah

Yeah, well

[Pre-Chorus]

I'd put some money on forever, but I (Hey)

Don't like to gamble on the weather, so I

Just watch while

The sun is shinin', I can look at the horizon

The walls keep gettin' wider, I just hope I never find 'em, I know

Hey, well

[Chorus]

These are my wings

These are my wings, yeah

These are my wings

[Verse 2]

Yeah, well

Movin' so fast, the clock look slow (Slow)

Water my seeds 'til the flower just grow, yeah

Love so much that my heart get broke

I don't really know how the normal shit go, so

I guess I just play it by ear, silence is all that I hear

Listenin' close as I can

Growin' up (One, two, three), jump

Nobody holdin' my hand, no

Trust is a problem, never knew how, yeah

That's why I just keep to myself

Get what I need, then I'll be out (Please tell me)

Who can surf the universe with me?

Lucifer is human, so are we

All I ever want is what I need

And that don't include your time and company

Follow me, we on the up and up

Remember when I owed a hundred bucks?

Now, I look around like, "What the fuck?"

If you don't fuck with me, you fuckin' up

[Pre-Chorus]

I know I need to watch my temper, so I

Don't ever gamble on the weather, but I

Just watch while the

The sun is shinin', I can look at the horizon

The walls keep gettin' wider, I just hope I never find 'em, no, no

Yeah, well

[Chorus]

These are my wings

These are my wings

These are my wings

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Track details

From Swimming

2018
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Album
Swimming
Swimming
Mac Miller
3rd August 2018
Release year
2018
  1. —Come Back to Earth
    2:42
  2. —2009
    5:48
  3. —Jet Fuel
    5:45
  4. —Dunno
    3:57
  5. —Self Care
    5:45
  6. —Ladders
    4:47
  7. —Hurt Feelings
    4:06
  8. —What's the Use?
    4:49
  9. —Perfecto
    3:35
  10. —Wings
    4:10
  11. —Conversation Pt. 1
    3:30
  12. —So It Goes
    5:13
  13. —2009
  14. —What's the Use?
  15. —Ladders
  16. —Come Back to Earth
  17. —Wings
  18. —Jet Fuel
  19. —Hurt Feelings
  20. —Dunno
  21. —So It Goes
  22. —Perfecto
  23. —Conversation, Pt. 1

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
Alexander Spit, Mac Miller
Producer
Alexander Spit
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Robin Florent, Scott Desmarais
Mastering Engineer
Mike Bozzi
Mixing Engineer
Chris Galland, Manny Marroquin
Programmer
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Recording Engineer
Vic Wainstein
Video Animator
Jon Lutjens, LUTCH.tv
Video Director
Anthony Gaddis, Eric Tilford
Video Director Of Photography
Justin Boyd (Photographer)
Video Producer
Keith Tilford
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