FAITHFUL – English Lyrics

• By: Macklemore, NLE Choppa

Lyrics & Translation

Embark on a profound linguistic journey with Macklemore and NLE Choppa's "FAITHFUL." This deeply personal hip-hop track offers a raw and honest exploration of addiction and recovery, providing rich vocabulary and authentic expressions related to emotional struggle, hope, and resilience. Learning the language through this song allows users to connect with vulnerable storytelling and understand the nuances of conversational English in discussing challenging life experiences, making it special for its sincerity and powerful narrative.

[English]

Feel like I'm running out of time and the sun won't shine forever, forever

I got my mind on my money and my money, man, fuck it, whatever, whatever

Sometimes I wake up on the wrong side, I don't even feel like gettin' up

With this depression on my brain, hope it change, but the rain ain't lettin' up

Can't call it, don't know where my head is

Reflecting on Malcolm, and the shit I thought but never said it

To Peter, Robyn, to Kevin, all my other friendships

That could have, would have, should have and then they ended

I isolate between happiness and hopeless

Know what makes it worse? Still wanna get loaded

Sometimes I feel like I can't control my choices

And something takes over and I can't turn off the voices

Sitting with these thoughts, can't escape 'em, can't run

Got some bullets in the dresser as I polish my gun

They say that a day clean is a day won

But I'm holding on, praying to a God abandoned

Zoning on the couch, staring in my daughter's

Know there's a pill in this house that I'm obsessing about popping

Reservations talking, the push and pull of conscience

Should probably pick up the phone and call my sponsor but don't wanna

When the Percs don't work, Xannies won't calm me down

Not enough liquor in the bar or weed grown in the ground

Trapped by these walls where my brain can't get out

Wonderin' if my mama have to put her son in the ground

We still going when the day break

Me and the homies on the same page

Find me in the whip, that's my safe place

Feel like I'm getting weak, I need some AA

Need someone to pray for my soul right now

Everything's looking gray, and there's no white clouds

I don't what to say, I got nothing to write down

On my knees questioning God like, "Why now?"

I'm lost, but I'm found again

I'm up all night, I toss and turn

I love my life, I got concerns

I've been through Hell, on some FML

It's just as well, I might lose it

I need some light, I need some air

I might be broken, I need repair

Don't got the answers, think I'm confused

I ask myself, "Who are you?"

I need you right now Mack to wake up more than ever

Ain't no more weed, alcohol, and popping pills, et cetera

I know these days gettin' rough but they get better

It's a cold world, let's go to the Gucci store for a sweater

Feel it deeply in my heart you need this letter

So I pour my feelings out to you before I go and mail it

I don't know what I'm sensing, but I can smell it

When you write me back just tell it, I'ma soak it up, inhale it

Heard you got a daughter, well I got one too

And she too beautiful, barely see her too

Do you hug her and tie her shoes?

Is she reflecting of you and got a smile that bloom?

Before you load that gun and shoot

Just know that she be needing you

The best version of you too

I would write more but my day about to break

We can meet up face-to-face, just let me know if that's okay

We still going when the day break

Me and the homies on the same page

Find me in the whip, that's my safe place

Feel like I'm getting weak, I need some AA

Need someone to pray for my soul right now

Everything's looking gray, and there's no white clouds

I don't what to say, I got nothing to write down

On my knees questioning God like, "Why now?"

I'm lost, but I'm found again

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
running /ˈrʌnɪŋ/ A1	verb - to move quickly on foot
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
sun /sʌn/ A1	noun - the star around which the earth orbits.
money /ˈmʌni/ A1	noun - a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; collectively, the financial resources of a country or organization.
mind /maɪnd/ A2	noun - the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought. verb - to be annoyed or bothered by something.
brain /breɪn/ A2	noun - an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating center of sensation, intellectual and nervous activity.
hope /hoʊp/ A2	verb - want something to happen or be the case. noun - a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
day /deɪ/ A1	noun - a period of 24 hours as a unit of time, reckoned from one midnight to the next.
soul /soʊl/ B1	noun - the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.
lost /lɒst/ B1	adjective - unable to find one's way; not knowing one's whereabouts.
daughter /ˈdɔːtər/ B1	noun - a girl or woman in relation to her parents.
write /raɪt/ A1	verb - mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, typically paper, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement.
need /niːd/ A1	verb - require (something) because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable. noun - the state of requiring help or support.
broken /ˈbroʊkən/ B2	adjective - having been fractured or damaged.
gun /ɡʌn/ B1	noun - a weapon incorporating a metal tube from which projectiles are fired by the force of an explosive.
letter /ˈletər/ A1	noun - a written or printed message addressed to a person or organization.
heart /hɑːrt/ A2	noun - an organ that pumps blood through the body.
weak /wiːk/ B1	adjective - lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; lacking physical strength and energy.

Key Grammar Structures

• Feel like I'm running out of time and the sun won't shine forever, forever

  ➔ Present Continuous & Future with "won't" (will not)

  ➔ Uses Present Continuous "I'm running" to describe an ongoing action and "won't shine" (future) to predict the sun's behavior.

• I got my mind on my money and my money, man, fuck it, whatever, whatever

  ➔ Present Perfect Simple & Informal Speech (expletive omitted)

  ➔ Using "got" (past participle) to show possession (present perfect, though the main tense usage is less relevant here) and informal language/repetition for emphasis.

• I isolate between happiness and hopeless

  ➔ Present Simple & Preposition "between"

  ➔ Simple Present tense to describe a state and uses "between" to show a position.

• Know what makes it worse? Still wanna get loaded

  ➔ Phrasal Verb "makes it worse", & "wanna" (contraction)

  ➔ "makes it worse" is a phrasal verb. "wanna" (want to) is a common contraction in spoken English.

• Sometimes I feel like I can't control my choices

  ➔ Present Simple & Modal Verb "can't"

  ➔ Uses Present Simple "feel" to describe a state, and modal "can't" (can not) to show lack of ability.

• Got some bullets in the dresser as I polish my gun

  ➔ Past Participle "Got" and use of "as"

  ➔ Uses the past participle "got" to signify a completed action related to having, "as" introduce a simultaneous action.

• They say that a day clean is a day won

  ➔ Passive voice and idiomatic expression

  ➔ Uses the passive voice ("is won") and an established idiomatic expression.

• When the Percs don't work, Xannies won't calm me down

  ➔ Conditional clause & Modal verb "won't"

  ➔ Conditional clause (when... ) and uses "won't" (will not) to express future inability.

• I don't what to say, I got nothing to write down

  ➔ Contraction, direct object, infinitive

  ➔ Uses "don't" a contraction of do not, includes a direct object "nothing", and an infinitive verb phrase "to write down".

• I need you right now Mack to wake up more than ever

  ➔ Informal sentence structure, comparative, and imperative

  ➔ The sentence order is not the standard, and the use of "more than ever" expresses a comparison. It also has imperative undertones ("wake up").