[ti:The Way I Am (Unedited Version)]
[ar:Eminem]
[al:The Way I Am]
[00:00.47]Whatever
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[00:09.62]Dre just let it run
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[00:12.24]Aiyyo turn the beat up a little bit
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[00:15.43]Aiyyo this song is for anyone fuck it
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[00:21.55]Just shut up and listen aiyyo
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[00:25.66]I sit back with this pack of Zig Zags and this bag
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[00:28.06]of this weed it gives me the shit needed to be
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[00:30.73]the most meanest MC on this -- on this Earth
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[00:33.54]And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse
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[00:37.09]And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works
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[00:39.40]And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve
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[00:41.96]all this tension dispensin these sentences
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[00:44.63]Gettin this stress that's been eatin me recently off of this chest
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[00:48.38]and I rest again peacefully (peacefully)
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[00:51.04]but at least have the decency in you
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[00:53.36]to leave me alone when you freaks see me out
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[00:55.51]in the streets when I'm eatin or feedin my daughter
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[00:58.47]to not come and speak to me (speak to me)
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[01:00.67]I don't know you and no
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[01:02.17]I don't owe you a mo-therfuck-in thing
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[01:04.13]I'm not Mr N'Sync I'm not what your friends think
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[01:06.53]I'm not Mr Friendly I can be a prick
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[01:09.24]if you tempt me my tank is on empty (is on empty)
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[01:12.42]No patience is in me and if you offend me
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[01:14.61]I'm liftin you 10 feet (liftin you 10 feet) in the air
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[01:19.60]I don't care who is there and who saw me destroy you
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[01:21.00]Go call you a lawyer file you a lawsuit
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[01:22.25]I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe
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[01:25.86]I'm tired of all you (of all you)
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[01:28.01]I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be is just me
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[01:31.13]And I am whatever you say I am
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[01:33.93]If I wasn't then why would I say I am
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[01:36.55]In the paper the news everyday I am
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[01:39.35]Radio won't even play my jam
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[01:42.21]Cause I am whatever you say I am
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[01:44.06]If I wasn't then why would I say I am
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[01:47.63]In the paper the news everyday I am
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[01:50.75]I don't know it's just the way I am
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[01:53.49]Sometimes I just feel like my father I hate to be bothered
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[01:56.92]with all of this nonsense it's constant
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[01:58.93]And Oh it's his lyrical content -
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[02:00.94]- the song 'Guilty Conscience' has gotten such rotten responses
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[02:04.13]And all of this controversy circles me
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[02:06.75]and it seems like the media immediately
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[02:09.41]points a finger at me (finger at me)
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[02:11.63]So I point one back at 'em but not the index or pinkie
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[02:14.90]or the ring or the thumb it's the one you put up
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[02:17.61]when you don't give a fuck when you won't just put up
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[02:20.42]with the bullshit they pull cause they full of shit too
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[02:23.08]When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up his school
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[02:25.89]and they blame it on Marilyn (on Marilyn) and the heroin
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[02:29.65]Where were the parents at And look where it's at
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[02:32.17]Middle America now it's a tragedy
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[02:34.33]Now it's so sad to see an upper class ci-ty
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[02:36.34]havin this happenin (this happenin)
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[02:39.11]then attack Eminem cause I rap this way (rap this way)
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[02:41.66]But I'm glad cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire
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[02:45.08]to burn and it's burnin and I have returned
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[02:47.90]And I am whatever you say I am
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[02:50.70]If I wasn't then why would I say I am
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[02:53.25]In the paper the news everyday I am
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[02:55.87]Radio won't even play my jam
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[02:58.93]Cause I am whatever you say I am
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[03:01.23]If I wasn't then why would I say I am
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[03:04.10]In the paper the news everyday I am
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[03:06.87]I don't know it's just the way I am
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[03:10.02]I'm so sick and tired of bein admired
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[03:12.48]that I wish that I would just die or get fired
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[03:15.16]and dropped from my label and stop with the fables
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[03:17.93]I'm not gonna be able to top on My Name is
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[03:20.73]And pigeon-holed into some pop-py sensation
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[03:23.50]to cop me rotation at rock'n'roll stations
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[03:26.27]And I just do not got the patience (got the patience)
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[03:29.29]to deal with these cocky caucasians who think
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[03:32.05]I'm some wigger who just tries to be black cause I talk
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[03:35.17]with an accent and grab on my balls so they always keep askin
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[03:37.53]the same fuckin questions (fuckin questions)
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[03:40.20]What school did I go to what hood I grew up in
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[03:42.61]The why the who what when the where and the how
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[03:45.39]'til I'm grabbin my hair and I'm tearin it out
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[03:47.75]cause they drivin me crazy (drivin me crazy) I can't take it
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[03:50.97]I'm racin I'm pacin I stand and I sit
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[03:53.43]And I'm thankful for ev-ery fan that I get
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[03:55.95]But I can't take a SHIT in the bathroom
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[03:59.22]without someone standin by it
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[04:00.33]No I won't sign your autograph
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[04:02.60]You can call me an asshole I'm glad
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[04:04.52]And I am whatever you say I am
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[04:07.02]If I wasn't then why would I say I am
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[04:09.69]In the paper the news everyday I am
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[04:12.55]Radio won't even play my jam
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[04:15.56]Cause I am whatever you say I am
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[04:18.07]If I wasn't then why would I say I am
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[04:20.71]In the paper the news everyday I am
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[04:24.52]I don't know it's just the way I am