[ar:Eminem]
[ti:The Way I Am]
[la:uk]
[by:Lexington]
[00:01]Artist: Eminem
[00:04]Title: The Way I Am

[00:06]Dre just let it run
[00:09]Ay yo turn the beat up a little bit
[00:12]Ay yo  this song is for anyone
[00:17]Fuck it just shut up and listen

[00:21]Ay yo
[00:22]I sit back with this pack of zigzags
[00:23]And this bag of this weed
[00:25]It gives me the shit needed to be
[00:27]The most meanest emcee on this   on this earth
[00:30]Cause since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse
[00:33]And just blurt this bezerk and bizarre shit that works
[00:35]And it sells and it helps in itself
[00:38]To relieve all this tension dispensing me
[00:40]Sentence is getting it, stress has been eating me recently
[00:43]All through this chest and I rest to get peacefully
[00:46]But at least have the decency in you to leave me alone
[00:50]When you freaks see me out in the streets when I'm eating or feedin' my daughter
[00:55]To not come and speak to me
[00:57]I don't know you and no I don't owe you a motherfuckin thing
[01:00]I'm not Mr. NSYNC and I'm not what your friends think
[01:03]I'm not Mr. Friendly
[01:04]I can be a prick, if you tip me my tank is on empty
[01:09]No patience is in me and if you offend me I'm lifting you ten feet
[01:13]In the air, I don't care who was there and who saw me just jaw you
[01:17]Go call you a lawyer file you a lawsuit
[01:19]I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe
[01:22]I'm tired of arguing - I don't mean to mean but it's all I can be
[01:27]It's just me

[01:28]And I am
[01:29]Whatever you say I am
[01:30]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[01:34]In the paper, the news, everyday I am
[01:37]Radio won't even play my jam

[01:39]Cause I am
[01:40]Whatever you say I am
[01:41]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[01:44]In the paper, the news, everyday I am
[01:48]I don't know it's just the way I am

[01:49]Sometimes I just feel like my father, I hate to be bothered
[01:54]With all of this nonsense it's constant
[01:55]And "oh it's just lyrical content!"
[01:57]The song "Guilty Conscience" has gotten such rotten responses
[02:01]And all of this controversy circles me
[02:03]And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me
[02:08]So I point one back at 'em
[02:10]But not the index or pinky or the ring or the thumb
[02:13]It's the one you put up when you don't give a fuck
[02:15]When you won't just put up with the bullshit they pull
[02:19]Cause they full of shit too
[02:20]When a dude's gettin bullied and shoots up his school
[02:23]And they blame it on Marilyn - and the heroin
[02:26]Where were the parents at?
[02:27]And look at where it's at: middle America
[02:30]Now it's a tragedy
[02:31]Now it's so sad to see
[02:33]An upper class city having this happening
[02:35]Then attack Eminem cause I rap this way
[02:38]But I'm glad cause they feed me the fuel
[02:40]That I need for the fire to burn and it's burnin' and I have returned

[02:45]And I am
[02:46]Whatever you say I am
[02:47]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[02:51]In the paper, the news, everyday I am
[02:54]Radio won't even play my jam

[02:56]Cause I am
[02:57]Whatever you say I am
[02:58]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[03:01]In the paper, the news, everyday I am
[03:05]I don't know it's just the way I am

[03:06]I'm so sick and tired of being admired
[03:10]That I wish that I would just die or get fired
[03:12]And dropped from my label and stop with the fables
[03:16]I'm not gonna be able to top what my name is
[03:18]And pigeon holdin' to some poppy sensations
[03:21]They cop me rotation at Rock 'N' Roll stations
[03:23]And I just do not have the patience
[03:26]To deal with this cocky Caucasians
[03:28]Who think I'm some wigga who just tries to be black
[03:31]Cause I talk with an accent and grab on my balls
[03:33]So they always keep asking the same fucking questions
[03:37]What school did I go to?
[03:38]What hood I grew up in?
[03:40]The why? The who, what?
[03:41]When and where and the how?
[03:42]Till I'm grabbing my hair and I'm tearing it out
[03:45]You've been driving me crazy, I can't take it
[03:48]I'm racing, I'm pacing, I stand and I sit
[03:51]And I'm thankful for every fan that I get
[03:53]But I can't take a shit in the bathroom
[03:56]Without someone standing by it
[03:58]No I won't sign your autograph
[03:59]You can call me an asshole
[04:01]I'm glad cause

[04:02]I am
[04:03]Whatever you say I am
[04:05]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[04:07]In the paper, the news, everyday I am
[04:11]Radio won't even play my jam

[04:12]Cause I am
[04:14]Whatever you say I am
[04:16]If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
[04:18]In the paper, the news, everyday I am
[04:22]I don't know it's just the way I am