End of the Road

## **from the album *Lace Up***

"**End of the Road**" was released as the 13th and final track from Machine Gun Kelly's debut studio album, *Lace Up* (2012). It features vocals from American musician blackbear and was included in MGK's mixtapes *Lace Up: The Mixtape* as the third track, *EST 4 Life (Extended Edition)* as the seventh track, and *Black Flag (Deluxe Edition)* as the thirty-fourth track.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Chorus: blackbear]

Yeah, it's a long way home at the end of the road

I'll be pavin my own way, to the top, I be here to stay

So take my name, remember this face, keep the change and have a nice day

And live for the moment, not by the past, homie live each day like it's your last

[Verse 1: Machine Gun Kelly]

Yeah, all my life, I couldn't fit in, like a bad shoe

I was always too square, too cube, too tall, too weird, too blue

Forget them high-school's hotties now I'm too cool

I guess I came a long way from that young kid

The school's most popular lame, no friends, no style, no clothes, no ends

Just a bed, fell asleep and never woke up again ('Gain)

Yeah, and my last prayer was don't ever let me end up like the people that's down here

'Cause the one that fear change be the one that don't care

Look at themselves and see somebody else in the mirror

But you can always pick me out of the crowd

Loud mouth with my very own style

And what I know now is don't ever pretend

And live every single day like you won't see it again, gone

[Chorus: blackbear, *Machine Gun Kelly*]

So take my name, remember this face

Keep the change and have a nice day

And live for the moment, not by the past

Homie live each day like it's your last

*And if you only have 24 hours*

*And 1400 minutes before your dreams gone, then you better go live it*

*'Cause whatever you love could be taken away*

*So live like it's your dying day*

[Verse 2: Machine Gun Kelly]

I dedicate this to my teachers that never believed in me

And the mother that conceived, but ended up leaving me

I just wish y'all could see me smile, this big's grin on the TV now, oh

And I took it from the bottom to the top

From the holes in my socks, Ramen noodles in the pot

Used to rob them on the block, now they stop me in the drop

Middle finger up and that ain't gonna stop

I used to take orders and now I make bets

I used to scrub floors, now I sign checks

I used to push carts, now I push songs

Yeah, I used to be there, now I am so gone

I fired myself, found a job myself

Established my name and then I signed myself

And what I tell myself, is you did this by yourself

And when I'm on so long, I'll be by myself, I'm gone

[Chorus: blackbear, *Machine Gun Kelly*]

So take my name, remember this face

Keep the change and have a nice day

And live for the moment, not by the past

Homie live each day like it's your last

*And if you only have 24 hours*

*And 1400 minutes before your dreams gone, then you better go live it*

*'Cause whatever you love could be taken away*

*So live like it's your dying day*

[Verse 3: Machine Gun Kelly]

Oh, I wish I could see their faces when they heard your boy spit

Wish I could know what they're thinking when they heard my first hit

'Cause I remember them wishing that I wouldn't get big

Now I bet they're wishing they wouldn't of said that shit

I came out of a dying city brought back life

Everything they said I couldn't do I did about twice

Multiplied by the bottles that we popped each night

That equals out to a celebration, bitches more ice

Make it toast to the underdogs, toast to the team (Hey)

Toast to the fact we this close to the dream

Pour one for my exes, used to talk reckless

But now I push Benzes and rock Rolexes

Came from the city and until they come and get me

Turn around and see the whole east side's still with me (What up?)

And that's how we live it, (Hey) you mans don't change

Look, it's still the kid, still can't tell me a goddamn thing, Kells!

[Chorus: blackbear, *Machine Gun Kelly*]

So take my name, remember this face

Keep the change and have a nice day

And live for the moment, not by the past

Homie live each day like it's your last

*And if you only have 24 hours*

*And 1400 minutes before your dreams gone, then you better go live it*

*'Cause whatever you love could be taken away*

*So live like it's your dying day*

[Outro: blackbear]

Yeah, it's a long way home at the end of the road

I'll be pavin my own way, to the top, I be here to stay

So take my name, remember this face

Keep the change and have a nice day

And live for the moment, not by the past

Homie live each day like it's your last, yeah (Yeah, yeah)