Album Cover Fine Line

Fine Line

EMINEM

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Another day, another hotel, the inside of it is nice though

Oh well, this is my life so as I go and try to close for the night′s show

To see how far that line goes, still blows my mind, show businessGuess I'll just never get, so this shit just always feels so weird

To this day because alls I ever did

Was just say the shit I would′ve wanted to hear

Other people say to me when I was a kid

So please don't make me some type of hero

Cause I will say some inspirational shit in a real way

But still will have a field day with some of the fucked up shit

In the world and tell it to suck on the dick, cause I still make fun

Of a sitch someone's in like a son of a bitch at another′s expense

I′m fuckin' relentless it′s fucked, when it comes to this pen

I struggle with coming to senses, stuck on the fence

With a balance beam. If I seem unbalanced, it's challenging

But my conscience allows me to think the most foulish, childish things

Without even blinking, without even thinkin′ about

All the stinkin' amounts of people that seems to be reachin′ for the crowds

They're screaming in The Palace, sold out this evening

But now as I lay me down to sleeping

Is it really my soul to keep, or have I sold it cheap?

Is it greed? And do I take more than I need?

When I joke of leavin', but keep overachievin′

Cause what it′s stole from me I've barely broken even

I know, it′s a fine, fine line

Living in a hole dying

I know, it's a fine, fine line

Living in a hole dying

So a martyr is how I paint myself

And through my harrowin′ ordeals I'm so vain

I want my respect

But ignore the butterfly effect that comes from my dialect

Till I sit in the dark and I reflect

And my reflection shows what it′s like here

Cause this vanity, surrounded by all these lights

Yeah, it's like a nightmare

I said, this vanity surrounded by these lights is a nightmare

And I don't like how I see myself, so I open the Bible to Isaiah

Cause I swear to Christ there are nights when I stay up and might

And say a prayer twice just to make sure God hears

Cause this ice layer

I skate on′s a nice way of putting it, but I like stayin′

Feistier than a triceratops and like a dice player

I got a nice paradise here, sealed off in my lair

Away from the bullshit good safe place to sit and talk shit

It's funny, this house is quite big, but it ain′t when you can't leave it

And I feel so isolated, nice I made it

But it′s like I paid the price of fame twice, I hate it

So I bitch about my life then make another song, vicious cycle ain't it?!

Then wonder why I stay famous

I keep walkin′ the line

This goldfish bowl gets old

But especially when you don't know

If your conscience is sayin' I told you so

Cause you don′t even know anymore if you got the soul of a soldier

Or you sold your soul

I know, it′s a fine, fine line

Living in a hole dying

I know, it's a fine, fine line

Living in a hole dying

And from here you look so small

Hovering high above us all

Please come back

To me

I still remember the times when

They were simpler than the rhymes of

Vanilla Ice were when I was just killin′ the mics

I'll never forget what that feeling was like

I miss those times now when I was just starting out

Without a dime and, now I′m diamond

I can't even stage dive in the crowd anymore now when I′ve been

Stuck in this house hibernatin'

Hate even going outside

It sucks, sometimes I just wanna walk into Target and look at shit and browse, I

Don't even want to buy nothin′

I just wanna fuckin′ walk around inside it

Look how excited I sound when I get to talkin' bout life and

Everything about it I miss, which now reminds me

Put a thousand lighters in the sky for the Outsidaz

Wow, I must have had Alzheimer′s

Long time since I shouted them out, 'bout time

Cause it′s been on my mind lately how

Zee, you always supported me

You vouched, I will never forget that and

How you guys accepted me for me and Pace

I love you too, you slept on my couch

And I've been thinkin′ 'bout the time when I slept on the floor at The Outhouse

Rhyming's all we ever wanted to do

And regardless how life has turned out

Inside I′ll, I′ll always be an outsider

My life has been turned inside out but I

I know, it's a fine, fine line

Living in a hole dying

I know, it′s a fine, fine line

Living in a hole dying

But I keep walkin' the line...