Artist: Eminem
Album: The Marhsall Mathers LP, track 7
Song: The Way I Am
Typed by: gangstarr@mindless.com,
dj.flash@pobox.com
[Eminem]
Whatever..
Dre, just let it run
Aiyyo
turn the beat up a little bit
Aiyyo.. this
song is for anyone.. fuck it
Just shut up and listen, aiyyo..
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 berserk and bizarre shit that
works
And it sells and it helps in itself to relieve
all
this tension dispensin these sentences
Gettin
this stress that's been eatin me recently off of this
chest
and I
rest again peacefully (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 (speak to me)..
I don't know you and no,
I don't owe you a mo-therfuck-in
thing
I'm not Mr. N'Sync, I'm not what your friends think
I'm not Mr. Friendly, I can be a prick
if
you tempt me my tank is on empty (is on empty)..
No patience is in me and if you offend me
I'm liftin you 10 feet (liftin you 10 feet).. in the air
I don't care who is there and who saw me destroy
you
Go 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 (of all you)..
I don't mean to be mean but that's all I can be is
just me
Chorus: Eminem
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
[Eminem]
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 (finger at me)..
So I point one back at 'em,
but not the index or pinkie
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 his school
and
they blame it on Marilyn (on Marilyn).. and the heroin
Where were the parents at? And look where it's at
Now it's so sad to see, an upper class ci-ty
havin
this happenin (this happenin)..
then
attack Eminem cause I rap this way (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
[Eminem]
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 and stop with the fables
I'm not gonna be able to
top on "My Name is…"
And pigeon-holed into some pop-py
sensation
to
cop me rotation at rock'n'roll stations
And I just do not got the patience (got the
patience)..
to
deal with these cocky caucasians who think
I'm some wigger 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 (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
cause
they drivin me crazy (drivin
me crazy).. I can't take it
I'm racin, I'm pacin, I stand and I sit
And I'm thankful for ev-ery
fan that I get
But I can't take a SHIT, in the bathroom
without
someone standin by it
No I won't sign your autograph
You can call me an asshole I'm glad
Chorus (except change first word "And" to
"Cause")