[ti:Cleanin Out My Closet] [ar:Eminem] [al:The Eminem Show] [00:01.23]Cleanin Out My Closet [00:01.66]Eminem [00:02.02] [00:33.45]Have you ever been hated [00:34.80]or discriminated against? [00:36.59]I have, I've been protested and demonstrated against. [00:39.80]Picket signs for my wicked rhymes. [00:41.95]Look at the times. Sick is the mind [00:43.86]of the motha fuckin' kid that's behind [00:46.13]all this commotion. Emotions run deep [00:48.12]as ocean's explodin.' [00:49.55]Tempers flaring from parents, [00:51.05]just blow 'em off and keep goin.' [00:52.58]Not takin' nothin' from no one, [00:54.04]give 'em hell long as I'm breathin. [00:55.74]Keep kickin' ass in the mornin,' [00:57.27]an' takin' names in the evening. [00:59.02]Leavem with a taste as sour as vinegar in they mouth. [01:02.17]See, they can trigger me [01:03.60]but they never figure me out. [01:05.24]Look at me now, [01:06.69]I bet ya probably sick of me now. [01:08.68]Ain't you mama, [01:09.65]I'ma make you look so ridiculous now. [01:11.88]I'm sorry, Mama. [01:14.95]I never meant to hurt you. [01:18.16]I never meant to make you cry, but tonight [01:21.26]I'm cleanin' out my closet. [01:22.97] [01:23.47]one more time [01:24.66]I'm sorry, Mama. [01:27.87]I never meant to hurt you. [01:31.15]I never meant to make you cry, but tonight [01:34.23]I'm cleanin' out my closet. [01:36.29] [01:38.12]I got some skeletons in my closet [01:39.74]and I don't know if no one knows it. [01:41.47]So before they thrown [01:42.54]me inside my coffin and close it, [01:44.27]I'ma expose it. I'll take you back to [01:46.48]73 before I ever had a multi-platinum sellin' CD. [01:50.89]I was a baby, maybe I was just a couple of months. [01:54.00]My faggot father must have [01:55.60]had his panties up in a bunch, [01:57.34]cuz he split. [01:58.26]I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye. [02:00.45]No, I don't on second thought, [02:02.07]I just fuckin' wished he would die. [02:03.85]I look at Hailie [02:04.75]and I couldn't picture leavin' her side. [02:06.98]Even if I hated Kim, I grit my teeth and I'd try [02:10.32]to make it work with her at least for Hailie's sake. [02:12.42]I maybe made some mistakes [02:13.78]but I'm only human. [02:15.00]But I'm man enough to face them today. [02:17.67]/What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb [02:20.05]but the smartest shit [02:21.00]I did was take them bullets out of that gun. [02:23.20]Cuz id'a killed 'em, [02:24.46] shit I would have shot Kim an' him both. [02:26.46]It's my life, I'd like to welcome y'all to The Eminem Show. [02:29.93]I'm sorry, Mama. [02:32.56]I never meant to hurt you. [02:35.97]I never meant to make you cry, but tonight [02:39.05]I'm cleanin' out my closet. [02:40.93] [02:41.28]one more time [02:42.50]I'm sorry, Mama. [02:45.61]I never meant to hurt you. [02:48.97]I never meant to make you cry, but tonight [02:52.02]I'm cleanin' out my closet. [02:53.98] [02:55.67]Now I would never dis my own mama just to get recognition. [02:58.93]Take a second to listen for you think this record is dissin,' [03:01.99] But put yourself in my position. [03:03.93] ust try to envision witnessin' your [03:06.20]Mama poppin' prescription pills in the kitchen, [03:08.81]bitchin' that someone's always g [03:10.04]oin' throuh her purse and shits missin.' Going through [03:12.27] public housing systems, victim of Munchausen's syndrome. [03:15.47]My whole life I was made to believe [03:17.06]I was sick when I wasn't 'til I grew up, [03:19.07] now I blew up. It makes you sick to ya stomach, [03:21.63]doesn't it? [03:22.39]Wasn't it the reason you made that CD for me, Ma? [03:24.87]So you could try to justify the way you treated me, Ma? [03:28.04]But guess what, [03:29.10]yer gettin' older now and it's cold when your lonely. [03:31.63]An' Nathan's getting' up so quick, [03:33.13]he's gonna know that your phoney. [03:34.60]And Hailie's getting' so big now, [03:36.71]you should see her, she's beautiful. [03:38.10]But you'll never see her, [03:39.22]she won't even be at your funeral. [03:41.27]See what hurts me the most is you won't [03:43.27]admit you was wrong. Bitch, do ya song. [03:45.34]Keep tellin' yourself that you was a mom. [03:47.65]But how dare you [03:48.61]try to take what you didn't help me to get. [03:50.65]You selfish bitch, [03:51.94]I hope you fuckin' burn in hell for this shit. [03:54.09] Remember when [03:54.96]Ronnie died and you said you wished it was me? [03:57.22]Well, guess what, I am dead. [03:59.04] Dead to you as can be. [04:00.63]I'm sorry, Mama. [04:03.38]I never meant to hurt you. [04:06.78]I never meant to make you cry, but tonight [04:09.83]I'm cleanin' out my closet. [04:11.59] [04:12.15]one more time [04:13.26]I'm sorry, Mama. [04:16.35]I never meant to hurt you. [04:19.67]I never meant to make you cry, but tonight [04:22.89]I'm cleanin' out my closet. [04:24.72]