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Macklemore

Castle

Release date: 9th October 2012

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About This Track

A gleeful fever dream of a party track, 'Castle' finds Macklemore and Ryan Lewis building a playground from pure absurdism. The hook cycles through a nursery-rhyme inventory of fantasy props: unicorns, wizard sleeves, hammer pants, pirate ships. It's the sound of someone who has decided that restraint is the enemy of fun, and the production leans into that chaos with a beat that bounces rather than bears down. Macklemore's verses are a sustained riff on the idea of a party without rules or geography. He moves through references to Dennis Rodman and Bonnaroo, to Narnia and saunas, to increasingly baroque descriptions of dancing and desire, all of it delivered with the breathless enthusiasm of someone who has found the one joke that will sustain him for four minutes. The song never pretends to be anything other than what it is: a celebration of hedonism and silliness, built on the assumption that if you say something ridiculous enough times, it becomes its own kind of truth.

"Castle" is a track by Macklemore, from the album The Heist, released 9th October 2012. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Castle

[Hook]

Unicorns and wizard sleeves

Hammer pants and make believe

Pirate ships sailing off to sea

Will you come party with me in my

Castle, in my castle, in my castle, in my castle?

[Verse 1]

This is for the freaks and for my magicians

Booty clap and lap dancing technicians

Dance parties in the name of Great Britain

And American girls who love the Detroit Pistons

Like Dennis Rodman, I got a rod man (awww yeah!)

Long wong-dong in a soft hand

And a pink palm pink schlong, let's all dance!

From England to Stockholm

I'm wearing a cape just like a poncho

I got a cutey and I'm making a beat on her booty

Like I was at Bonnaroo beating up on a bongo

I got a bottle of Martinelli's and I'm dumping

All over anybody that's kicking it in the grotto

Neighbors keep tripping, I'm like, "I'm in a castle

Fuck your condo!"

[Bridge]

Unicorns and wizard sleeves

Hammer pants and make believe

Pirate ships sailing off to sea

[Hook]

Unicorns and wizard sleeves

Hammer pants and make believe

Pirate ships sailing off to sea

Will you come party with me in my

Castle, in my castle, in my castle, in my castle?

[Verse 2]

You like to party, I am a party-er

You like to wander, I am a wanderer

Your thighs are the closet to Narnia

Is it cool if I go and get lost in that?

I'm the lion, the witch in the wardrobe

Massage my lap, I have a sore bone

Of course cold on the dance floor

Like an Eskimo's toes in the North Pole

With both toes poking out of two holes

In the Eskimo socks, I'm hot

Like a cauldron from a warlock

Wearing sweatpants in a sauna

Who's your father? I'm not

I'm motherfuckin' Raven Bowie and here's my cock

Rooster, cock-a-doodle-doo sir

Take a hit of the hookah, now make it drop

Girl's booty was bigger than the stomach of Rick Ross'

Holy mother mountain of tender tendon to get lost in

Bounce, bounce, that castle booty, that bottom

Make it wobble, wobbly-wobble 'till my third leg has to hobble

You don't want to look back on this night

And think I should have been freaking on a booty

Freak-freaking on a booty

[Hook]

Unicorns and wizard sleeves

Hammer pants and make believe

Pirate ships sailing off to sea

Will you come party with me in my

Castle, in my castle, in my castle, in my castle?

[Interlude]

This might be the best night that we have ever had

That-that we have ever had

That-that we have ever had

That-that we have ever had together

Eh, motherfuckin' eh

[Bridge 2]

Have you ever killed a coyote in the middle of a party

In the night, in the middle of a party

Have you ever killed a coyote in the middle of the night

In the middle of a party

Brought it home and threw it on the carpet

Someone kill a coyote, I'm starving

Who wants to eat a coyote?

Who wants to eat a coyote?

Who wants to eat a coyote?

Grab your bagpipe, I grab my flute

Cause drunk King John is still in the loo

Get onto the pole in a birthday suit, our suit

And M.J. was King, and Prince was Prince

And Raven has ruled ever since

[Hook]

Unicorns and wizard sleeves

Hammer pants and make believe

Pirate ships sailing off to sea

Will you come party with me in my

Castle, in my castle, in my castle, in my castle?

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Track details

From The Heist

2012
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Album
The Heist
The Heist
Macklemore
Release year
2012
  1. —Can't Hold Us
  2. —Thin Line
  3. —Jimmy Iovine
  4. —Castle
  5. —White Walls
  6. —A Wake
  7. —Thrift Shop
  8. —BomBom
  9. —Gold
  10. —Neon Cathedral
  11. —My Oh My
  12. —Starting Over
  13. —Victory Lap
  14. —Wing$
  15. —Make the Money
  16. —Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton)
    4:18
  17. —Cowboy Boots
  18. —Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz)
    3:56
  19. —Ten Thousand Hours

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