Date 2020-04-11
Category Lyrics, Music Video
Machine Gun Kelly has been keeping his fans busy, releasing a new song every day during the quarantine. The genre-blending rapper can go for days, mixing together elements of punk rock, emo, and rap to deliver his own brand of sonics. Hailing from Cleveland, the 29-year-old is escaping the madness of today’s world the only way he knows how.
Diving into the depths of his mind, Machine Gun Kelly has been releasing new freestyles to firstly keep himself busy and, secondly, to keep the content coming. As he continues to tease the arrival of Tickets To My Downfall, a pop-punk album with executive production from Travis Barker, MGK has just come through on another quick drop called “Pretty Toxic Revolver.”
Taking Shawn Mendes vocals and mixing them into a beat, Machine Gun Kelly goes deep to speak about his family situation, revealing that aunt just passed away from cancer. He also states that his father is fresh out of rehab and that his mother is out of the picture, wondering if God is a real person or a myth.
Machine Gun Kelly – Pretty Toxic Revolver (prod. BazeXX & SlimXX)
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[Verse 1]
Danger, one of us just lost our savior
Gotta maintain when you’re going insane, so I say this prayer
Dear God, why do I need this medicine to control my anger?
And do you even exist? They’re trying to say it’s a myth
Lotta things left unsaid, lotta things left unanswered
My aunt just passed from cancer
Dad just got out of rehab
And mom’s never gonna show up, gotta grow up
Ride with me through the memories inside of me
‘Til the nights I was hooked on the ivory
Head hurting all week ’cause of bad coke
Then the same week Peep overdosed, that’s fucked up
But I guess I lucked up
And I feel this pain because it probably won’t be until
The day I die that they love us
But trust, every nomination I don’t get
Every list that I ain’t on
Is a reminder of why I wrote songs in the first place
As a way to escape where I came from
[Chorus]
This just my pretty toxic
Heavy conscience weighing on my soul
Six shots in my revolver
When I’m on my own
[Verse 2]
Play this song
On the first day I am gone, I do not want you to cry
Legends never die, I hope our story’s told
And the year spent on that road
Before they came to our shows
We were creating our lane, I hope they pave it in gold
Take me home, somewhere I belong
Somewhere foreign, looks like Dali’s drawing
Yeah, isn’t it funny that whenever you got a vision
A mission and a couple of plans to go with it
Somebody gotta come along mad and damage it
Like a cancer that inhabits never banishes
I managed to smoke five grams of cannabis
And still keep my stamina for the fans and the goddamn cameras
That attack my stance like Evangelists
I said truth and they couldn’t handle it
So when it sinks you stand in it
I guess this is my Titanic
With no James Cameron to direct this draft of it
Just my
[Chorus]
Pretty toxic heavy conscience
Weighing on my soul
Six shots in my revolver
When I’m on my own, back against the wall
It got me anxious
Helpless, frigid, cold
Late nights drinking on my own
Now I’m fearless, Al Capone
To my dearest, I ain’t gone