- Artist:
Eminem
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP
Song: The Way I Am
-
-
- Whatever...
- Dre,
just let it run...
- Hey
yo, turn the beat up a little bit...
- Hey
yo, this song is for anyone ... fuck it ... just shut up and listen.
- Hey
yo...
- I
sit back, with this pack of Zig-Zags and this bag of this weed,
- it
gives me the shit needed to be the most meanest mc on this...
- on
this earth... and since birth I've been cursed with this curse
- to
just curse and just blurt this bezerk and bizarre shit that works,
- and
it sells and it helps in itself to relieve all this tension.
- Dispensing
these sentences, getting the stress
- that's
been eatin' me recently off of this chest.
- And
I rest again peacefully...
- But
at least have the decency in you
- to
leave me alone when you freaks see me out
- in
the streets when I'm eatin' or feedin' my daughter
- to
not come and speak to me.
- I
don't know you and no, I don't owe you
- a
motherfucking thing. I'm not Mister NSYNC.
- I'm
not what your friends think.
- I'm
not Mister Friendly. I can be a prick.
- If
you tip me my tank is on empty.
- No
patience is in me and if you offend me,
- I'm
liftin' you ten feet... in the air.
- I
don't care who was there and who saw me destroy you.
- Well,
call you a lawyer.
File you a lawsuit.
- I'll
smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe.
- I'm
tired of all you. I don't mean to be mean
- but
that's all I can be.
It's just me.
-
- Chorus
- And
I am, whatever you say I am.
- If
I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
- In
the paper, the news, everyday I am.
- Radio
won't even play my jam.
- 'Cause
I am, whatever you say I am.
- If
I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
- In
the paper, the news, everyday I am.
- I
don't know it's just the way I am.
-
- Sometimes
I just feel like my father. I hate to be bothered...
- with
all of this nonsense. It's constant and "Oh, it's his lyrical
content."
- The
song "Guilty Conscience" has gotten such rotten responses.
- And
all of this controversy circles me
- and
it seems like the media immediately
- points
a finger at me...
- So
I point one back at 'em but not the index or pinky
- or
the ring or the thumb.
It's the one you put up
- when
you don't give a fuck when you won't just put up
- with
the bullshit they pull 'cause they full of shit too.
- When
a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up your school
- and
they blame it on Marilyn ... and the heroin
- where
were the parents at? And look at where it's at...
- Middle
America
- now
it's a tragedy
- now
it's so sad to see
- an
upper-class city
- having
this happenin'.
- Then
attack Eminem
- 'cause
I rap this way.
- But
I'm glad 'cause they feed me the fuel
- that
I need for the fire to burn,
- and
it's burnin' and I have returned.
-
- Chorus
- And
I am, whatever you say I am
- If
I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
- In
the paper, the news, everyday I am.
- Radio
won't even play my jam.
- 'Cause
I am, whatever you say I am.
- If
I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
- In
the paper, the news, everyday I am.
- I
don't know it's just the way I am.
-
- I'm
so sick and tired of bein' admired
- that
I wish that I would just die or get fired
- and
dropped from my label.
Let's stop with the fables.
- I'm
not goin' to be able to top what my name is.
- And
pigeon-holed in to some poppy sensation
- that
got me rotation at rock-n-roll stations.
- And
I just do not got the patience...
- to
deal with these cocky caucasians
- who
think I'm some wigga' who just tries to be black
- 'cause
I talk with an accent and grab on my balls.
- So
they always keep askin' the same fuckin' questions...
- What
school did I go to? What hood I grew up in?
- The
why, the who what, when the where and the how
- 'til
I'm grabbin' my hair and I'm tearin' it out.
- You've
been drivin' me crazy. I can't take it.
- I'm
racin' I'm pacin'. I stand then I sit.
- And
I'm thankful for every fan that I get
- but
I can't take a shit in the bathroom
- without
someone standing by it...
- You
knew I won't sign your autograph
- you
can call me an asshole. I'm glad.
-
- Chorus
- 'Cause
I am, whatever you say I am
- If
I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
- In
the paper, the news, everyday I am.
- Radio
won't even play my jam.
- 'Cause
I am, whatever you say I am.
- If
I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
- In
the paper, the news, everyday I am.
- I
don't know it's just the way I am.