[00:01.86]Producer：Luis Resto/Eminem
[00:10.03]It's 2002 everything was totally new
[00:12.59]We were globally huge
[00:13.59]Watching sales go through the roof
[00:15.32]We wrote and we viewed it
[00:16.61]Runyon Avenue soldiers included
[00:17.82]A multitude of homies who would bounce for no good excuse
[00:20.70]We were so bulletproof wrote souped and soaked in our youth
[00:23.48]Thought we was running **** till we lost the sole of our shoe
[00:26.70]The death of Doody broke us in two
[00:28.70]We were thrown for a loop ain't none of us know what to do
[00:31.33]And at the time I was going through my own struggles too
[00:33.97]So I wasn't in no condition to be coaching us through
[00:36.82]Everyone tried to go solo really nobody blew
[00:39.38]I was hoping they do so I ain't have to shoulder the group
[00:41.87]The plan was put everyone in position so that they knew
[00:44.67]How to stand on they own and I don't want to open up wounds
[00:47.38]I just noticed the oomf was gone when we go in the booth
[00:49.99]Cause the truth is the moment that proof died so did the group
[00:52.29]If I could leave this world behind
[00:57.40]I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line
[01:03.36]Turn to the river with you
[01:08.11]Help me leave this all behind
[01:12.84]I'ma wash away my sins
[01:15.36]I'ma rinse away this dirt
[01:18.16]I forgot to make amends
[01:20.77]To all the friends I may have hurt
[01:23.24]I better stop and say my grace
[01:25.93]From that I pray that I don't fall
[01:28.61]'Cause on the way back down I may
[01:31.42]May end up running back into them all
[01:33.85]I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
[01:40.62]It was never the same and it's bothered me since
[01:43.51]And the farther we drift apart the more awkward it gets
[01:46.10]The more time goes by the more life happens
[01:48.65]And we gotta be men we got responsibilities
[01:51.54]Plus we don't say how we feel and I feel like this is what got us in
[01:54.41]The debacle we're in d**n with you guys thick and thin
[01:56.67]But it's almost as if sometimes we're not even friends
[01:59.44]Which reminded me this Rockstar was the ****
[02:02.06]Y'all could've got you a hit without you on it
[02:04.74]If you've put D12 on it wish I could've did
[02:07.32]More than try talking you into coming up off of it
[02:09.48]I know it wasn't my fault but part of it probably is
[02:12.27]I think of all of the trips to BET and the rappers
[02:14.87]I wish that we would've politicked with
[02:16.92]Maybe y'all coulda clicked and got you some features
[02:19.47]But that's water under the bridge
[02:20.89]But I'm washing my sins in it till my concious is clear
[02:23.12]If I could leave this world behind
[02:28.31]I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line
[02:34.17]Turn to the river with you
[02:39.26]Help me leave this all behind
[02:43.99]I'ma wash away my sins
[02:46.21]I'ma rinse away this dirt
[02:48.96]I forgot to make amends
[02:51.50]To all the friends I may have hurt
[02:54.23]I better stop and say my grace
[02:56.81]From that I pray that I don't fall
[02:59.55]'Cause on the way back down I may
[03:02.22]May end up running back into them all
[03:04.78]I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
[03:11.92]Bacardi in hand
[03:12.71]Never thought the party would end
[03:14.19]One minute you're bodyin' **** but then your audience splits
[03:16.90]You can already sense the climate is startin' to shift
[03:19.52]To these kids you no longer exist
[03:21.11]Went from rainin' cats and dogs in this *****
[03:23.55]To tiny drops full of drips
[03:24.93]And by the time your reign is over you'll hardly be missed
[03:28.37]You start thinkin' of all the artists you gift
[03:30.40]All the carnage you left
[03:31.62]Is this the kinda karma you get
[03:32.93]For turning your ******' back on Bizzy Kuniva and Swift
[03:35.97]A Freudian slip
[03:36.73]Subconsciously I honestly wished
[03:38.32]I ain't feel so much guilt and y'all didn't harbor resentment
[03:41.01]But it's hard to pretend that y'all ain't got none of this
[03:43.65]Wish I had words
[03:44.59]But I guess they're just ownin' for this
[03:46.32]Still my point is I just can't say how sorry I am
[03:48.66]This is not how I planned for our story to end
[03:51.45]I love all of you men
[03:52.82]But I just can't be the guy
[03:54.18]Everybody depends on for entire careers
[03:56.88]'Cause that's not even fair
[03:58.27]I will always be here
[03:59.52]But that spark isn't there
[04:00.79]And I don't know how to recapture that time and that air
[04:03.59]I've tried hearkening back to
[04:04.83]But I'm fighting for air
[04:06.23]I'm barely charting myself
[04:07.50]Feels like I'm under the sink
[04:08.89]But it was not my intent
[04:10.26]To treat y'all like a stepping stone
[04:12.04]Though I ain't left no one behind
[04:13.77]But we been down every road
[04:15.56]Done all we possibly can
[04:16.70]I know we kept up our hopes
[04:18.31]But the longer we spend livin' this lie that we live
[04:20.70]The less is left for closure so let's let this go
[04:23.75]It's not goodbye to our friendship but D12 is over
[04:27.87]I'ma wash away my sins
[04:30.75]I'ma rinse away this dirt
[04:33.20]I forgot to make amends
[04:35.93]To all the friends I may have hurt
[04:38.42]I better stop and say my grace
[04:41.12]From that I pray that I don't fall
[04:43.79]'Cause on the way back down I may
[04:46.39]May end up running back into them all
[04:49.04]I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
[04:54.46]I never meant to make you feel like my stepping stones
[04:59.73]I never meant to use you all for my stepping stones