Macklemore & Ryan - Lewis Wing

“I put the bottle down. I looked in the mirror. And I saw a kid who just wanted to feel something other than nothing.”

“The Wing” was the last song on their sophomore album. It wasn’t a single. It had no radio-friendly hook or catchy slogan about thrift shops. It was a eulogy for a part of themselves they’d buried years ago: the addict. macklemore & ryan lewis wing

The words hung in the dusty air of the gym. This was the room where Ben had first tried to shoot a basketball, where he’d learned to lose. It felt right to finish the song here. “I put the bottle down