Mark Ronson Songs - Heavy and Rolling Lyrics

Mark Ronson - Heavy and Rolling

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Album: Uptown Special
Released: 2015

Heavy and Rolling Lyrics

Start up the engine, we're Heavy and Rolling
A tankful of gas and the night is young
I don't know you, don't care where you’re going
To the Highline or the heart of the sun

My sweet companion is long as the summer
Black as the river and built to glide
Smooth as glass, smooth as Marcus Miller
Cold as ice when you climb inside

When the city's flowing
I found a way to move my weary soul
Ridin' straight and low
Stay heavy and rolling

You deal in ducats, you deal in illusion
Pay for pleasure with your pretty face
You confuse war and prostitution
In my starship I sail freely through space

When the city's flowing
I found a way to move my weary soul
Ridin' straight and low
Stay heavy and rolling

I was lost and lonely like you
Hollow-eyed and broken inside
Then I found something lasting and true
A beautiful ride

Might have to wait to start in on your drinking
All of Hell’s Kitchen’s standing in that line
I’ll be here living in my Lincoln
Occupying space and conquering time

When the city's flowing
I found a way to move my weary soul
Ridin' straight and low
Stay heavy and rolling

Writer/s: BHASKER, JEFF / WYATT, ANDREW / RONSON, MARK / CHABON, MICHAEL
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Longtime Mark Ronson collaborator Miike Snow's Andrew Wyatt added his vocals and songwriting talents to this track. Ronson told The Guardian: "Andrew had this bassline (from an xx remix that he never finished) and just started singing the lyrics off the page. We added some chord changes and it was pretty much done."

"This is one of my favorite pairing of lyrics/song/performance on the album," he added. "If I could sing like Andrew, I would stay home and serenade myself all day."

The majority of Uptown Special's lyrics were penned by Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist behind The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Ronson told The Guardian about the author's contribution to this track: "Michael had these lyrics fully formed," he said. "He was really into the expression 'heavy and rolling' that NYC hire car drivers use to signify to the base that they have their passengers and are on the job."