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Artist: Eminem

Title: Cleaning Out My Closet

Album: The Eminem Show

 

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(speaking)

Where’s my snare

I have no snare on my headphones

There you go

Yeah... yo, yo

 

(rapping)

Have you ever been hated or discriminated against

I have, I’ve been protested and demonstrated against

Picket signs for my wicked rhymes, look at the times

Sick as the mind of the motherfuckin’ kid that’s behind

All this commotion, emotions run deep as oceans explodin’

Tempers flarin’ from parents, just blow ‘em off and keep goin’

Not takin’ nothin’ from no one, give them hell long as I’m breathin’

Keep kickin’ ass in the mornin’, and takin’ names in the evenin’

Leavin’ with the taste as sour as vinegar in they mouth

See, they can trigger me, but they’ll never figure me out

Look at me now, I bet you’re probably sick of me now

Ain’t you mama, I’ma make you look so ridiculous now

 

I’m sorry, mama

I never meant to hurt you

I never meant to make you cry, but tonight, I’m cleanin’ out my closet

 

One more time

I said I’m sorry, mama

I never meant to hurt you

I never meant to make you cry, but tonight, I’m cleanin’ out my closet... ha

 

I got some skeletons in my closet

And I don’t know if no one knows it so

Before they throw me inside my coffin and close it --

I’ma expose it

I’ll take you back to ‘73

Before I ever had a multi-platinum-sellin’ CD

I was a baby, maybe I was just a couple of months

My faggot father must’ve had his panties up in a bunch

‘Cause he split – I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye

No, I don’t on second thought, I just fuckin’ wished he would die

I look at Haley, and I couldn’t picture leavin’ her side

Even if I hated Kim, I grit my teeth and I tried

To make it work with her, at least for Haley’s sake

I maybe made some mistakes, but I’m only human

But I’m man enough to face ‘em today

What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb

But the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of that gun

‘Cause I’d have killed ‘em, shit, I would’ve shot Kim and ‘em both

It’s my life, I’d like to welcome y’all to The Eminem Show

 

I’m sorry, mama

I never meant to hurt you

I never meant to make you cry, but tonight, I’m cleanin’ out my closet

 

One more time

I said I’m sorry, mama

I never meant to hurt you

I never meant to make you cry, but tonight, I’m cleanin’ out my closet... huh

 

Now, I would never diss my own mama just to get recognition

Take a second to listen, for who you think this record is dissin’

But put yourself in my position, just try to envision

Witnessing your mama poppin’ prescription pills in the kitchen

Bitchin’ that someone’s always goin’ through her purse and shit’s missin’

Goin’ through public housing systems, victim of Munchausen's Syndrome

My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn’t

Till I grew up, now I blew up, it makes you sick to your stomach – doesn’t it

Wasn’t it the reason you made that CD for me, ma

So you could try to justify the way you treated me, ma

Well, guess what – you’re getting’ older now and it’s cold when you’re lonely

And Nathan’s growin’ up so quick, he’s gonna know that you’re phony

And Haley’s getting’ so big now, you should see her – she’s beautiful

But you’ll never see her, she won’t even be at your funeral

See, what hurts me the most is you won’t admit you was wrong

Bitch, do your song, keep tellin’ yourself that you was a mom

But how dare you try to take what you didn’t help me to get

You selfish bitch, I hope you fuckin’ burn in hell for this shit

Remember when Ronnie died and you said you wished it was me

Well, guess what – I am dead, dead to you as can be

 

I’m sorry, mama

I never meant to hurt you

I never meant to make you cry, but tonight, I’m cleanin’ out my closet

 

One more time

I said I’m sorry, mama

I never meant to hurt you

I never meant to make you cry, but tonight, I’m cleanin’ out my closet

 

 

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