Blackbirds
[Verse 1]
I shiver and shake the warm air cold
I'm alone, on my own
In every mistake, I dig this hole
Through my skin and bones
[Pre-Chorus]
It's harder starting over
Than never to have changed
[Chorus]
With blackbirds following me
I'm digging out my grave
They close in, swallowing me
The pain, it comes in waves
I'm getting back what I gave
[Verse 2]
I sweat through the sheet as daylight fades
As I waste away
It traps me inside mistakes I've made
That's the price I pay
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus]
[Verse 3: Eminem]
Let's pretend: Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen
Let's pretend things would've been no different
Pretend he procrastinated, had no motivation
Pretend he just made excuses that were so paper thin
They could blow away with the wind
"Marshall, you're never gonna make it
Makes no sense to play the game, there ain't no way that you'll win"
Pretend he just stayed outside all day and played with his friends
Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
And it wasn't time to move and schools weren't changing again
He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid
He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit
And he never dreamed he could rip stadiums and just lazy as shit
Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium, bitch
"You won't amount to shit, quit daydreaming, kid
You need to get your cranium checked
You're thinking like an alien, it just ain't realistic"
Now, pretend: they ain't just make him angry with this shit
And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed at
And his alarm went off to wake him but he didn't make it to the Rap Olympics
Slept through his plane and he missed it
He's gon' have a hard time explaining to Hailie and Laine
These food stamps and this WIC shit, ‘cause he never risked shit
He hoped and he wished it, but it didn't fall in his lap
So he ain't even here, he pretends that
[Chorus]
I shiver and shake the warm air cold
I'm alone, on my own
In every mistake, I dig this hole
Through my skin and bones
[Pre-Chorus]
It's harder starting over
Than never to have changed
[Chorus]
With blackbirds following me
I'm digging out my grave
They close in, swallowing me
The pain, it comes in waves
I'm getting back what I gave
[Verse 2]
I sweat through the sheet as daylight fades
As I waste away
It traps me inside mistakes I've made
That's the price I pay
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus]
[Verse 3: Eminem]
Let's pretend: Marshall Mathers never picked up a pen
Let's pretend things would've been no different
Pretend he procrastinated, had no motivation
Pretend he just made excuses that were so paper thin
They could blow away with the wind
"Marshall, you're never gonna make it
Makes no sense to play the game, there ain't no way that you'll win"
Pretend he just stayed outside all day and played with his friends
Pretend he even had a friend to say was his friend
And it wasn't time to move and schools weren't changing again
He wasn't socially awkward and just strange as a kid
He had a father and his mother wasn't crazy as shit
And he never dreamed he could rip stadiums and just lazy as shit
Fuck a talent show in the gymnasium, bitch
"You won't amount to shit, quit daydreaming, kid
You need to get your cranium checked
You're thinking like an alien, it just ain't realistic"
Now, pretend: they ain't just make him angry with this shit
And there was no one he could even aim when he's pissed at
And his alarm went off to wake him but he didn't make it to the Rap Olympics
Slept through his plane and he missed it
He's gon' have a hard time explaining to Hailie and Laine
These food stamps and this WIC shit, ‘cause he never risked shit
He hoped and he wished it, but it didn't fall in his lap
So he ain't even here, he pretends that
[Chorus]