Good News, Mac Miller

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• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Good News, Mac Miller

What are we going to do?

1. Read through the lyrics and listen to the song

2. Translate the lyrics together

3. Look at the meaning

What do you know about Mac Miller?

I spent the whole day in my head

Do a little spring-cleaning

I'm always too busy dreaming

Well, maybe I should wake up instead

A lot of things I regret, but I just say I forget

Why can't it just be easy?

Why does everybody need me to stay?

Well, I hate the feeling

When you're high but you're underneath the ceiling

Got the cards in my hand, I hate dealing

Get everything I need then I'm gone

But it ain't stealing, can I get a break?

I wish that I could just, get out my goddamn way

What is there to say?

There ain't a better time than today

Well, maybe I'll lay down for a little, yeah

Instead of always trying to figure everything out

And all I do is say sorry

Half the time I don't even know what I'm saying it about

Good news, good news, good news

That's all they wanna hear

No, they don't like it when I'm down

But when I'm flying, oh, it make 'em so uncomfortable

So different, what's the difference?

When it ain't that bad

It could always be worse

I'm running out of gas, hardly anything left

Hope I make it home from work

So tired of being so tired

Why I gotta build something beautiful just to go set it on fire?

I'm no liar but

Sometimes the truth don't sound like the truth

Maybe 'cause it ain't

I just love the way it sound when I say it, yeah

So what I do? If you know me it ain't anything new

Wake up to the moon, haven't seen the sun in a while

But I heard that the sky is still blue

Heard they don't talk about me too much, no more

That's the problem with a closed door

(Chorus)

There's a whole lot more for me waiting on the other side

 

I'm always wondering, if it feel like summer

I know maybe I'm too late, I could make it there some other time

I'll finally discover

That there's a whole lot more for me waiting

That there's a whole lot more for me waiting

I know maybe I'm too late, I could make it there some other time

Then I'll finally discover

That it ain't that bad

Ain't so bad

When it ain't that bad

At least it don't gotta be no more

No more, no more, no more, no more

No more, no more, no more, no more

No more

After reading the lyrics and listening to the song what do you think it is about?

Translation and meaning of lyrics

First we will translate the lyrics. 

After translating we will look at the meaning

I spent the whole day in my head

Do a little spring-cleaning

I'm always too busy dreaming

Well, maybe I should wake up instead

A lot of things I regret, but I just say I forget

Why can't it just be easy?

 

Why does everybody need me to stay?

Well, I hate the feeling

When you're high but you're underneath the ceiling

Got the cards in my hand, I hate dealing

Get everything I need then I'm gone

 

But it ain't stealing, can I get a break?

I wish that I could just, get out my goddamn way

What is there to say?

There ain't a better time than today

Well, maybe I'll lay down for a little, yeah

 

Instead of always trying to figure everything out

And all I do is say sorry

Half the time I don't even know what I'm saying it about

Good news, good news, good news

 

That's all they wanna hear

No, they don't like it when I'm down

But when I'm flying, oh, it make 'em so uncomfortable

So different, what's the difference?

When it ain't that bad

 

It could always be worse

I'm running out of gas, hardly anything left

Hope I make it home from work

So tired of being so tired

Why I gotta build something beautiful just to go set it on fire?

 

I'm no liar but

Sometimes the truth don't sound like the truth

Maybe 'cause it ain't

I just love the way it sound when I say it, yeah

So what I do? If you know me it ain't anything new

 

Wake up to the moon, haven't seen the sun in a while

But I heard that the sky is still blue

Heard they don't talk about me too much, no more

That's the problem with a closed door

There's a whole lot more for me waiting on the other side

 

I'm always wondering, if it feel like summer

I know maybe I'm too late, I could make it there some other time

I'll finally discover

That there's a whole lot more for me waiting

 

That there's a whole lot more for me waiting

I know maybe I'm too late, I could make it there some other time

Then I'll finally discover

That it ain't that bad

 

Ain't so bad

When it ain't that bad

At least it don't gotta be no more

No more, no more, no more, no more

No more, no more, no more, no more

No more

Now that we looked at the meaning of the lyrics what do you think this song is about?

How do you feel about the song?
Do you like it?
Why do you (not) like it?