Cleanin Out My Closet

Where`s my snare, I have no snare in my headphones, there ya` <br>go, yeah, yo`, yo`...<br><br>Have you ever been hated or discriminated against, I have, i`ve <br>been protested and demonstrated<br>against, picket signs for my wicked rhymes, look at the times, <br>sick is the mind of the<br>motherfuckin` kid that`s behind, all this commotion, emotions <br>run deep as ocean`s explodin`,<br>tempers flaring from parents, just blow `em off and keep goin`, <br>not takin` nothin` from no one,<br>give `em hell long as i`m breathin`, keep kickin` ass in the <br>mornin`, an` takin` names in the<br>evening, leave `em with a taste as sour as vinegar in they mouth, <br>see they can trigger me but<br>they`ll never figure me out, look at me now, I bet ya` probably <br>sick of me now, ain`t you mama,<br>i`ma make you look so ridiculous now...<br><br>[CHORUS]<br><br>I`m sorry mama, I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to make <br>you cry, but tonight i`m<br>cleanin` out my closet, {one more time}, I said i`m sorry mama, <br>I never meant to hurt you, I<br>never meant to make you cry, but tonight i`m cleanin` out my closet...<br><br>I got some skeletons in my closet and I don`t know if no one <br>knows it, so before they thrown me<br>inside my coffin and close it, i`ma expose it, i`ll take you <br>back to `73, before I ever had a<br>multi-platinum sellin` Cd, I was a baby, maybe I was just a couple <br>of months, my faggot father<br>must have had his pantie`s up in a bunch, cause he split, I wonder <br>if he even kissed me goodbye,<br>no I don`t on second thought, I just fuckin` wished he would <br>die, I look at Hailie and I<br>couldn`t picture leavin` her side, even if I hated Kim, I grit <br>my teeth and I`d try, to make it<br>work with her at least for Hailie`s sake, I maybe made some mistakes <br>but i`m only human, but i`m<br>man enough to face them today, what I did was stupid, no doubt <br>it was dumb, but the smartest<br>shit I did was take them bullets out of that gun, cause id`a <br>killed `em, shit I would have shot<br>Kim and him both, it`s my life, i`d like to welcome y`all to <br>the Eminem show...<br><br>[CHORUS]<br><br>Now I would never diss my own mama just to get recognition, take <br>a second to listen for you<br>think this record is dissin`, but put yourself in my position, <br>just try to envision witnessin`<br>your Mama poppin` prescription pills in the kitchen, bitchin` <br>that someone`s always goin`<br>through her purse and shits missin`, going through public housing <br>systems, victim of<br>Munchausen`s syndrome, my whole life I was made to believe I <br>was sick when I wasn`t `til I grew<br>up, now I blew up, it makes you sick to ya` stomach, doesn`t <br>it, wasn`t it the reason you made<br>that Cd for me, ma, so you could try to justify the way you treated <br>me, ma, but guess what, your<br>gettin` older now and it`s cold when your lonely, and Nathan`s <br>growing up so quick, he`s gonna<br>know that your phoney, and Hailie`s getting so big now, you should <br>see her, she`s beautiful, but<br>you`ll never see her, she won`t even be at your funeral, see <br>what hurts me the most is you won`t<br>admit you was wrong, bitch, do your song, keep tellin` yourself <br>that you was a mom, but how dare<br>you try to take what you didn`t help me to get, you selfish bitch, <br>I hope you fuckin` burn in<br>hell for this shit, remember when Ronnie died and you said you <br>wished it was me, well guess<br>what, I am dead, dead to you as can be...<br><br>[CHORUS]