Eminem- The Way I Am

## The Way I Am

By: Eminem

From: The Marshall Mathers LP

Year: 2000

Track: 7

## Moods

* [[::Category:Angry|Angry]]
* [[::Category:Bitter|Bitter]]
* Manic

## Lyrics

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 dispensing these sentences

Getting this stress that's been eating 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 eating or feeding my daughter

Do not come and speak to me (speak to me)...

I don't know you and no,

I don't owe you a motherfucking 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 tick me my tank is on empty (is on empty)...

No patience is in me and if you offend me

I'm lifting you 10 feet (lifting you 10 feet)... in the air

I don't care who was 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:]*

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

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 getting 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

Middle America, now it's a tragedy

Now it's so sad to see, an upper class city

Having this happening (this happening)...

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 burning and I have returned

*[Chorus:]*

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

I'm so sick and tired of being admired

That I wish that I would just die or get fired

And dropped from my label, let's stop with the fables

I'm not gonna be able to top on "My Name is... "

And pigeon-holed into some pop-py sensation

That got 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 asking

The same fucking questions (fucking 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 grabbing my hair and I'm tearing it out

'Cause they driving me crazy (driving me crazy)... I can't take it

I'm racing, I'm pacing, I stand and I sit

And I'm thankful for every fan that I get

But I can't take a shit, in the bathroom

Without someone standing by it

No I won't sign your autograph

You can call me an asshole I'm glad

*[Chorus:]*

'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

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