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  1. Tracks
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Macklemore

Gold

Release date: 9th October 2012

From The Heist
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About This Track

'Gold' is a meditation on material worth and spiritual emptiness dressed up as a party track. Macklemore builds the song around a simple inversion: when everything is gold, the metal loses its power to distinguish. He moves between images of abundance (gold chains, gold bottles, the vault cracked open) and a kind of weary deflation, asking what status signifies when it's universal. The production sits somewhere between celebration and critique, letting the chorus from Eighty4 Fly float over verses that undercut their own swagger. The track pivots on a single gesture of generosity. After two verses spent cataloguing the trappings of wealth and success, Macklemore proposes giving it all away, watching Rick Ross hand his Jesus piece to a stranger on the street. It's a moment of moral clarity that arrives not as preaching but as a natural conclusion to the song's logic: if gold can't buy distinction, perhaps it can buy grace. The song never quite resolves the tension between these impulses, which is where its real weight lives.

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

About the Artist

Macklemore

Macklemore

Lyrics

Gold

[Verse 1: Macklemore]

Everything is gold, everything is equal

Posted on the porch just chillin', me and my people

Eyelids closed, gold sun shines on

The world's coated in the gold Krylon, yay

And these days, days, days, they never run away

Gold tints, shades that block out that golden haze

Take all the gold from the pawn shop that lives behind the case

And g-g-give it away

When gold erupted from volcanoes in the heavens

And every shrine that existed in time melted

Tombs open, Dookie ropes on the pharaohs

When everything is gold, who cares about the carats?

And they say that gold's the skin of the gods

You can't take the Band-Aid when you're gone

Now I, now I-I-I, I'll tip over that kiosk in the mall

As the sunset falls into tomorrow

[Chorus: Eighty4 Fly]

Today we're feeling like gold, five hundred thousand sold

Slick Rick gold rope on, hella cold

And we stay fresh, so fresh, head to toes

Goldschläger faded, fourteen carat plated

So we're feeling like gold, five hundred thousand sold

Slick Rick gold rope on, hella cold

Today we're feeling like gold

So fresh, head to toes

Goldschläger faded, fourteen carat plated

So we're feeling like gold

[Verse 2: Macklemore]

Alright now, we open up

That car door, hop out, hope they notice us

Throughout society, we been locked in that cobra clutch

More gold bottles, gold bottles, never sober up

Ditch Jesus, in gold I trust

I solemnly swear to wear my cross and stunt

Separate myself by stickin' out just because

That's how you illustrate power and who you're above

But, nah, tonight we take it, take it, giving it back

Crack open the vault, let everyone mob in the bank

Take whatever they want, we party and give thanks

I've been rocking gold chains since P was in a tank

You only live once, you only live once

Watch Rick Ross give his Jesus piece to a bum

'Cause tonight, we ball, we ball, we comin' up

Paintin' the globe gold, two-steppin' on the sun like

[Chorus: Eighty4 Fly]

Like gold, five hundred thousand sold

Slick Rick gold rope on, hella cold

And we stay fresh, so fresh, head to toes

Goldschläger faded, fourteen carat plated

So we're feeling like gold

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Today we're feeling like gold

Oh, oh, oh, oh

[Verse 3: Macklemore]

Gold coins, gold phone, gold car

Costs at least ten racks to get sixteen gold bars

Gold rush, suck on my gold dust stuntin'

Under these gold trunks, that's two golden nugget

Flyin' on the gold eagle, flier than the rest of 'em

Past the Space Needle, golden shower on pedestrians

"Excuse me, that's my bad, that's my eagle and he shouldn't have"

My eagle got hair, that motherfucker got a mullet, bruh

And it's gold, two girls, gold brass

Loungin' on the water, feet in the gold sand

Sippin' on Orangina, arms around them both pants

They're sippin' Olde English right out of a gold can

Two girls, gold spandex, so pretty

That girl ain't even gold, she just got golden girl titties

I'm kidding, everyone is gold in my city

You paint Betty White gold, even Betty White can get it

Get it, get it, get it, get it

[Chorus: Eighty4 Fly]

Today we're feeling like gold, five hundred thousand sold

Slick Rick gold rope on, hella cold

And we stay fresh, so fresh, head to toes

Goldschläger faded, fourteen carat plated

So we're feeling like gold, five hundred thousand sold

Slick Rick gold rope on, hella cold

And we stay fresh, so fresh, head to toes

Goldschläger faded, fourteen carat plated

So we're feeling like gold

Oh, oh, oh, oh

So we're feeling like gold

Oh, oh, oh, oh

[Outro: Eighty4 Fly]

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

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

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