Eminem - When I'm Gone Lyrics

[00:01.12] Yeah

[00:02.62] It’s my life

[00:04.87] But all in words I guess

[00:06.35] Have you ever loved someone so much you’d give an arm for?

[00:09.37] Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?

[00:12.37] When they know they are your heart

[00:14.14] And you know you are their armour

[00:15.87] And you will destroy anyone who will try to harm her

[00:18.87] But what happens when karma turns right around and bites you

[00:21.87] And everything you stand for turns on you to spite you

[00:25.37] What happens when you become the main source of her pain

[00:28.61] “Daddy look what I made?”

[00:30.12] “Dad’s gotta go catch a plane”

[00:31.87] “Daddy where’s mummy? I can’t find mummy, where is she?”

[00:35.11] I don’t know, go play, Hailie baby your daddy’s busy.

[00:38.12] Daddy’s writin’a

[00:39.12] song, this song ain’t gon’ write itself

[00:41.14] I give you one underdog, then you gotta swing by yourself

[00:44.63] Then to write a rhyme in a song and tell her you love her

[00:47.60] And put hands on her mother who’s a spittin’ image of her

[00:50.87] That’s slim shady, yeah baby slim shady’s crazy

[00:54.37] Shady made me, but tonight, Shady’s rock-a-by baby

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[01:01.12] And when I’m gone, just carry on don’t mourn,

[01:02.61] rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice

[01:05.37] Just know that I’m lookin’ down on you smiling

[01:06.62] And I didn’t feel a thing so baby don’t feel no pain,

[01:10.87] just smile back

[01:23.62] I keep havin’ this dream –

[01:24.87] I’m pushin’ hailie on the swings she keeps screamin’

[01:26.37] She don’t want me to sing, “You’re makin mummy cry,

[01:30.87] why, why’s mummy crying?”

[01:33.15] Baby, Daddy ain’t leavin’ no more,

[01:35.88] “Daddy you’re lying,

[01:36.62] You always say that, you always say this is the last time,

[01:39.37] but you ain’t leavin’ no more, Daddy you’re mine!”

[01:42.11] She’s piling boxes infront of the door tryin’ to block it,

[01:45.12] “Daddy please daddy don’t leave daddy no, stop it!”

[01:48.62] Goes in her pocket, pulls out a tiny necklace locket,

[01:51.87] it’s got a picture,

[01:53.12] “This’ll keep you safe daddy, take it with you”

[01:56.12] I look up, it’s just me standin in the mirror,

[01:58.12] these fuc*** walls must be talkin coz man I can hear ‘em

[02:01.39] They sayin you got one more chance to do right, and it’s tonight,

[02:05.12] Now go out there and show ‘em

[02:07.37] that you love ‘em ‘fore its too late

[02:08.86] And just as I go to walk out of my bedroom door

[02:11.39] it turns to a stage, they’re gone

[02:13.87] And the spotlight is on and I’m singin…

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[02:15.36] And when I’m gone, just carry on don’t mourn,

[02:17.61] rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice

[02:20.87] Just know that I’m lookin’ down on you smiling

[02:23.87] And I didn’t feel a thing so baby don’t feel no pain,

[02:26.63] just smile back

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[02:40.87] Sixty thousand people, all jumpin’ out their seat

[02:43.12] The curtain closes, they’re throwing roses at my feet

[02:46.12] I take a bow, “and thank you all for comin’ out”

[02:49.11] They’re screamin so loud, I take one last look at the crowd

[02:52.62] I glance down, I don’t believe what I’m seein’,

[02:55.63] “Daddy it’s me! Help mummy her wrists are bleedin’”

[02:58.86] But baby we’re in Sweden, how did you get to Sweden?!

[03:02.13] “I followed you daddy, you told me that you wern’t leavin

[03:05.37] You lied to me dad, and now you make mummy sad

[03:08.63] And I bought you this coin

[03:11.87] It says ‘number 1 dad’, that’s all I wanted

[03:13.87] I just wanna give you this coin

[03:15.36] I get the point, fine, me and mummy are goin”

[03:18.37] But baby wait-

[03:20.62] “its too late dad, you made your choice.

[03:21.62] Now go out there and show ‘em you love ‘em more than us

[03:24.62] That’s what they want

[03:26.62] They want you Marshall, they keep

[03:27.88] screamin your name, it’s no wonder you can’t go to sleep

[03:30.87] Just take another fuc*** pill, yeah i bet ya you will

[03:32.61] You rap about it. Yeah word, ke-keep it real”

[03:34.63] I hear applause, all this time I couldn’t see

[03:40.63] How could it be that the curtain is closing on me

[03:43.62] I turn around, find a gun on the ground, cock it,

[03:47.13] put it to my brain, scream ‘Die Shady!’ and pop it

[03:50.37] The sky darkens, my life flashes,

[03:52.61] The plane that I was supposed to be on crashes and burns to ashes

[03:56.61] That’s when I wake up, alarm clock's ringin',

[04:00.87] There’s birds singin’, it’s spring and

[04:05.36] Hailie’s out side swingin’

[04:06.12] I walk right up to Kim and kiss her, tell her I miss her

[04:08.11] Hailie just smiles and winks at her little sister,

[04:10.62] almost as if to say

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[04:14.37] And when I’m gone, just carry on don’t mourn,

[04:16.86] rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice

[04:18.37] Just know that I’m lookin’ down on you smiling

[04:23.62] And I didn’t feel a thing so baby don’t feel no pain,

[04:26.62] just smile back.