The next song on the album after “Weekend” is “In The Bag”. All of these lines are said in a remorseful tone as he is starting to see that he’s been messing up lately.
Mac drops the bars “I got a system filled up with toxins…”, “Getting high to deal with my problems” and “but I be good by the weekend”. In this song Mac expresses his realization that the lifestyle he is leading is turning him into a bad person. Later on in the album we get to the song “Weekend”. In my mind I’ve split up this album into 3 parts and these first few songs (Doors, Brand Name, Rush Hour, Two Matches and 100 Grand Kids) I would describe as Mac’s reckless stage. I also love the production of these few songs too, especially “Doors” which was produced by Tyler The Creator who is also one of my favorite artists of all time. I really love the lyrics and I relate to most of them. Over the next few songs Mac boasts this lifestyle. He drops lines like “I’m too high, you can’t reach me with the cell phone, No goodbyes, No hellos”, “You don’t want this life I live, You’d rather have a wife and kids.” and “…To everyone who sell me drugs, Don’t mix it with that -–, I’m hoping not to join the twenty seven club.” All these lines, especially the last shows that Mac believes he is on top of the world and is riding his highs unconcerned about the consequences. He expresses this decision a lot more throughout the song. His expression of this state of mind shows that he is deciding to embrace the wild lifestyle and accepting the clear end result of it. He begins his verse with the lines “We inbetween heaven and hell, - a 9 to 5, I’d rather end up dead or in jail”. This idea leads him into the next song, “Brand Name”. This line shows that he is also deciding to forget about forgiveness at the moment and do what he wants while he’s still alive. Later in the song he says “…These doors will close, and people change.”. From this you can hear his conflicting points of views. In the song, He drops the line “…Didn’t mean to cause you pain, I just needed to escape, Ain’t saying that I’m sober, I’m just in a better place…”. As mentioned earlier, Mac is an addict and in this song he sounds as if he is trying to find a balance between asking for forgiveness from his loved ones and rationalizing his addiction. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.Starting off, Mac Miller sets “Doors” as the first track. Follow the instructions for disabling the ad blocker on the site you’re viewing.You may have more than one ad-blocker installed. You’ll usually find this icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. Click the icon of the ad-blocker extension installed on your browser.When it turns gray, click the refresh icon that has appeared next to it or click the button below to continue.Click on the large blue power icon at the top.Click the UBlock Origin icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.It will turn gray and the text above will go from “ON” to “ OFF”. Click on the “ Ad-Blocking” button at the bottom.Click the Ghostery icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Switch off the toggle to turn it from “ Enabled on this site” to “ Disabled on this site”.Click the AdBlocker Ultimate icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.“ Block ads on – This website” switch off the toggle to turn it from blue to gray.