Like Toy Soldiers (Explicit)

Like Toy Soldiers (Explicit) - Eminem (埃米納姆)

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 of

The whole world on my shoulders

I am never supposed to show it' my crew

Ain't supposed to know it

Even if it means goin' toe to toe with a

Benzino it don't matter

I'd never drag them in battles

That I can handle unless I absolutely have to

I'm supposed to set an example

I need to be the leader' my crew

Looks for me to guide 'em

If some sh*t ever just pop off'

I'm supposed to be beside 'em

Now Ja said "I tried to squash it'

It was too late to stop it"

There's a certain line you just

Don't cross and he crossed it

I heard him say Hailie's name on

A song and I just lost it

It was crazy' this sh*t be way beyond

Some Jay-z and Nas sh*t

And even though the battle was won'

I feel like we lost it

I spent too much energy on it' honestly

I'm exhausted

And I'm so caught in it I almost feel

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 wanna destroy something I help build

It wasn't my intentions' my intentions was good

I went through my whole career without ever mentionin'

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 t v down talkin' a man

Who literally saved my life

Like f**k it i understand this is business

And this sh*t just isn't none of my business

But still knowin' this sh*t could pop off

At any minute cuz

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

There used to be a time

When you could just say a rhyme

And wouldn't have to

Worry about one of your people dyin'

But now it's elevated

Cuz once you put someone's kids in it

The sh*t gets escalated'

It ain't just words no more is it

It's a different ball game' callin' names

And you ain't just rappin'

We actually tried to stop the 50

And Ja beef from happenin'

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 started yappin' in magazines

How we stabbed him

F**k it 50 smash 'em' mash 'em and let him have it

Meanwhile my attention is pullin' in other directions

Some receptionist at The Source

Who answers phones at his desk

Has an erection for me and thinks

That I'll be his ressurection

Tries to blow the dust off his mic

And make a new record

But now he's f**ked the game up

Cuz one of the ways I came up

Was through that publication the same one

That made me famous

Now the owner of it has got a grudge

Against me for nothin'

Well f**k it' that mutherf**ker can

Get it too' f**k him 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

We'll maybe shout 'em out

In a rap or up in a chorus

To show them we love 'em back

And let 'em know how important it is

To have run ya nav and

Who sulked us up in our corners

Their loyalty to us is worth

More than any award is

But I ain't tryna have none of

My people hurt and murdered

There ain't words that I can't think of

A perfecter way to word it

Then to just say that I love ya'll

Too much to see the virdict

I'll walk away from it all before

I let it go any further

But don't get it twisted' it's not a plea

That I'm coppin'

I'm just willin' to be the bigger man

If ya'll can quit poppin' off

At your jaws with the knockin'

Cuz frankly I'm sick of talkin'

I'm not gonna let someone elses

Coffin rest on my conscience cuz

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