Songs from the First Line(s) - Eminem

Hi, my name is, what? My name is, who? / My name is, chka-chka, Slim Shady

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn / Well, that's alright because I like the way it hurts / Just gonna stand there and hear me cry

Yeah / I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now / But hey, what daddy always tell you? / Straighten up little soldier

I'm just so f***in' depressed, I just can't seem to get out this slump / If I could just get over this hump / But I need something to pull me out this dump,

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed / Get along with the voices inside of my head

I've been a liar, been a thief / Been a lover, been a cheat / All my sins need holy water, feel it washing over me

Dear Slim, I wrote you but you still ain't calling / I left my cell, my pager, and my home phone at the bottom

Have you ever loved someone so much, you'd give an arm for? / Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?

Wasn't ready to be no millionaire, I was ill-prepared / I was prepared to be ill though, the skill was there

Gotta concentrate, against the clock I race / Got no time to waste, I'm already late, I got a marathoner's pace

They say these bars are like COVID / You get 'em right off the bat / Infected with SARS and Corona / Like you took a bite off of that

I sit back with this pack of Zig Zags and this bag / Of this weed it gives me the s**t needed to be

Have you ever been hated or discriminated against? / I have; I've been protested and demonstrated against

Now this s**t's about to kick off, this party looks wack / Let's take it back to straight hip-hop and start it from scratch

Yo! His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy / There's vomit on his sweater already: Mom's spaghetti

I can swallow a bottle of alcohol and I'll feel like Godzilla / Better hit the deck like the card dealer

A lot of people ask me / Am I afraid of death? / The truth is, I think what scares me the most / Is not being able to say all the things I wanna say to you when I'm no longer here

Two trailer-park girls go 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside / Guess who's back, back again / Shady's back, tell a friend

Ayo, my pen and paper cause a chain reaction / To get your brain relaxing, the zany-acting maniac in action

May I have your attention please? / Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? / I repeat, will the real Slim Shady please stand up?

I'm cancerous, so when I diss, you wouldn't wanna answer this / If you responded back with a battle rap you wrote for Canibus

In my mind, I'm a fighter, my heart's a lighter / My soul is the fluid, my flow sparks it right up / An arsenic writer, author with arth-r-itis

You're walkin' down a horror corridor / It's almost 4 in the morning and you're in a / Nightmare, it's horrible / Right there's the coroner

We touch I feel a rush / We clutch it isn't much / But it's enough to make me wonder what's in store for us

I used to be the type of kid that would always think the sky is falling / Why am I so differently wired? Am I a martian?

Half an Ativan, I'm drivin' straight at a van / In a black Sedan, fast as I can / In Pakistan gettin' chased by a pack of Stans

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left / We all fall down like toy soldiers / Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win

These ideas are nightmares to white parents / Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings

Well, look what the stork brung / (What?) Little baby devil with the forked tongue / And it's stickin' out, yeah, like a sore thumb

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em / But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em