Willing to Die

Willing to Die single cover

### Songwriters

Stuart Crichton / Sir Robert Bryson Hall II / Matthew Lambert / Alan Lomax / John A. Lomax / Gin Wigmore

### Previous Song

I Will Love You

Willing to Die is a hidden track on the 2015 album, Blood to Bone. It features the rappers Logic and Suffa of Hilltop Hoods.

## Lyrics

[Intro (Sampled)]
Be my woman, gal, I'll
Be your man
Be my woman, gal, I'll
Be your man
Be my woman, gal, I'll
Be your man
Be my woman, gal, I'll
Be your man

[Verse 1: Suffa]
At the thought of losing you
I chewed my nail right down to the cuticle
And it's a pain so beautiful
I hurled my lunch right down in the cubicle
And how do I put this
We leave a trail of mistakes in a wake like footprints
Good kids, mad world
But got a feelin' we're making it through, well then I'm waiting for you
Girl

[Chorus: Gin Wigmore]
You can take my man, you can take my heart
I'll be ready and waiting for you here
In the streets I live, for the home I have
I am ready and willing to die
You can take my man, can take my heart
I'll be ready and waiting for you here
In the streets I live, in the home I have
I am ready and willing to die

[Verse 2: Logic]
Living In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, the leader driven
By more than money and women, I'm giving what I wasn't
They love it, nothing above it, I'm ready to covet and rub it in
At the end of the world, looking for love again
Young visionary, their vision vary on the contrary
I'm buried alive just trying to feel the vibe
While they're trying to fill the void, young, up-and-coming I was unemployed
Now my name is something that they just cannot avoid

[Chorus: Gin Wigmore]
You can take my man, you can take my heart
I'll be ready and waiting for you here
In the streets I live, for the home I have
I am ready and willing to die
You can take my man, can take my heart
I'll be ready and waiting for you here
In the streets I live, in the home I have
I am ready and willing to die

[Interlude (Sampled)]
Be my woman, gal, I'll
Be your man
Be my woman, gal, I'll
Be your man

[Chorus: Gin Wigmore]
You can take my man, you can take my heart
I'll be ready and waiting for you here
In the streets I live, for the home I have
I am ready and willing to die
You can take my man, can take my heart
I'll be ready and waiting for you here
In the streets I live, in the home I have
I am ready and willing to die

## Analysis

This promotional single proceeded Gin Wigmore’s third studio album, *Blood to Bone.* “Willing to Die” features guest verses from Suffa (one of the two MCs of the Hilltop Hoods) and Logic.

Throughout the song a prominent sample of Alan Lomax’s “Rosie” is utilized, a sample which at this tracks time of release had been recently used by David Guetta for his then latest single “Hey Mama”. This excerpt was sampled from a 1947 recording of an African-American prison work song titled “Rosie”. The song was composed within the walls of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, and was sung by the prisoners during their time in the Parchman work camp. Alan Lomax recorded the prisoner’s singing this song upon visiting the prisoner in search of “songs that might not have been touched by the outside world.”

This song speaks to our personal lives, typically consisting of sparing successes and countless *“mistakes”*, both leaving an imprint on the world.