Like Toy Soldiers
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Eminem
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[TV newscaster
speaking indiscinctly]
- I'm bored, let's
do something else.
- I got this book,
my dad gave it to me.
[TV newscaster] Sounds as though
the white rapper is attempting
to put an end...
♪ Step by step, heart to
heart, left right left ♪
♪ We all fall down ♪
♪ Step by step, heart to
heart, left right left ♪
♪ We all fall down ♪
♪ Like toy soldiers ♪
♪ Bit by bit, torn apart ♪
♪ We never win but
the battle wages on ♪
♪ For toy soldiers ♪
♪ I'm supposed to
be the soldier ♪
♪ Who never blows
his composure ♪
♪ Even though I hold the weight
♪ I ain't never
suppose to show it ♪
♪ My crew ain't
suppose to know it ♪
♪ Even if it means going toe
to toe with the Benzino
It don't matter ♪
♪ I never drag 'em
♪ I'm suppose to
set an example ♪
♪ I need to be the leader ♪
♪ My crew looks for
me to guide 'em ♪
♪ If something
ever just pop off ♪
♪ I'm suppose to be beside 'em ♪
♪ That Ja, I tried
to squashed it ♪
♪ It was too late to stop it ♪
♪ There's a certain line ♪
♪ You just don't cross
it, and he crossed it ♪
♪ I heard him say Hailie's name
on a song and I just lost it ♪
♪ It was crazy, this went way
beyond some Jay-Z and Nas ♪
♪ And even though the battle was
won, I feel like we lost it ♪
♪ I spent so much energy on
it, honestly I'm exhausted ♪
♪ And I'm so caught in it ♪
♪ I almost feel like I'm
the one who caused it ♪
♪ This ain't what
I'm in hip-hop for ♪
♪ It's not why I got in it ♪
♪ That was never my object
for someone to get killed ♪
♪ Why would I want to destroy
something I helped build ♪
♪ It wasn't my intentions,
my intentions were good ♪
♪ I went through my whole career
with out ever mentioning ♪
♪ And that was just
outta respect, for
not running my mouth ♪
♪ And talking about something
that I knew nothing about ♪
♪ Plus, Dre told me stay out ♪
♪ This just wasn't
my beef, so I did ♪
♪ I just fell back, watched
and gritted my teeth ♪
♪ While he's all over TV ♪
♪ Now I'm talking a man who
literally saved my life ♪
♪ Like, it I understand,
this is business ♪
♪ And this here just isn't
none of my business ♪
♪ But still knowing
that it could pop off ♪
♪ At any minute ♪
♪ 'Cause step by step, heart
to heart, left right left ♪
♪ We all fall down ♪
♪ Like toy soldiers ♪
♪ Bit by bit, torn apart ♪
♪ We never win but
the battle wages on ♪
♪ For toy soldiers ♪
♪ It used to be a time when
you could just say a rhyme ♪
♪ And wouldn't have to worry
about one of your people dying ♪
♪ But now it's elevated ♪
♪ 'Cause once you put
someone's kids in it ♪
♪ It just gets escalated,
it ain't just words
no more, is it ♪
♪ It's a different ball game ♪
♪ You call names and
you ain't just rapping ♪
♪ We actually tried
to stop the 50 ♪
♪ And Ja beef from happening ♪
♪ Me and Dre had sat with him ♪
♪ Kicked it and had
a chat with him ♪
♪ And asked him
not to start it ♪
♪ He wasn't gonna go after him ♪
♪ Until Ja start yappin' in
magazines how he stabbed him ♪
♪ And 50 smashed him, mash
him and let him have it ♪
♪ Meanwhile my intentions
pulled me in other directions ♪
♪ Some receptionist
said the source ♪
♪ Who answers phones at his
desk has an obsession for me ♪
♪ And thinks that I'll
be his resurrection ♪
♪ Tries to blow the dust of
his mic and make a new record ♪
♪ But now he's the game up
'cause one of the ways
I came up ♪
♪ Was through that publication ♪
♪ The same one that
made me famous ♪
♪ Now the owner of it got a
grudge against me for nothing ♪
♪ But, that over-sucker
can get it too, then ♪
♪ But I'm so busy being pissed
off, I don't stop to think ♪
♪ That we just inherited
50's beef with Murder Inc ♪
♪ And he's inherited
mine, which is fine ♪
♪ Ain't like either of us mind ♪
♪ We still have soldiers
that's on the front line ♪
♪ That's willing to die for us ♪
♪ As soon as we
give the orders ♪
♪ Never to extort us, strictly
to show they support us ♪
♪ And maybe shout 'em out
in a rap or up in a chorus ♪
♪ To show we love 'em back ♪
♪ And to let 'em know
how important it is ♪
♪ To have Runyon Avenue
soldiers up in our corners ♪
♪ Their loyalty to us is
worth more then any award is ♪
♪ But I ain't trying to have
none of my people hurt ♪
♪ Or murdered, it
ain't worth it ♪
♪ I can't think of a
perfecter way to word it ♪
♪ Then to just say
that I love y'all ♪
♪ Too much to see the verdict ♪
♪ I'll walk away from it all ♪
♪ Before I'll let
it go any further ♪
♪ But don't get it twisted, it's
not a plea that I'm coping ♪
♪ I'm just willing to
be the bigger man ♪
♪ If y'all can quit
popping off at the jaws ♪
♪ With the knocking, 'cause
frankly I'm sick of talking ♪
♪ I'm not gonna let
someone else's coffin ♪
♪ Rest on my conscience 'cause ♪
♪ Step by step, heart to
heart, left right left ♪
♪ We all fall down ♪
♪ Like toy soldiers ♪
♪ Bit by bit, torn apart ♪
♪ We never win but
the battle wages on ♪
♪ For toy soldiers ♪
♪♪♪
[music fading]
