Eminem Like Toy Soldiers

[00:04.39] Step by step, heart to heart

[00:06.64] Left, right, left, we all fall down...

[00:12.89] Step by step, heart to heart

[00:15.39] Left, right, left, we all fall down

[00:20.39] Like toy soldiers

[00:24.39] Bit by bit, torn apart

[00:27.14] We never win, but the battle wages on

[00:32.39] For toy soldiers

[00:35.89] I'm supposed to be the soldier who never blows his composure

[00:38.64] Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders

[00:41.89] I ain't never supposed to show it

[00:43.14] My crew ain't supposed to know it

[00:44.89] Even if it means goin' toe-to-toe with a Benzino

[00:47.64] It don't matter, I never drag 'em in battles that I can't handle

[00:50.64] 'Less I absolutely have to, I'm supposed to set an example

[00:53.64] I need to be the leader, my crew looks for me to guide 'em

[00:56.64] If some shit ever does pop off, I'm supposed to be beside 'em

[00:59.39] That Ja shit, I tried to squash it, it was too late to stop it

[01:02.39] There's a certain line you just don't cross, and he crossed it

[01:05.39] I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it

[01:08.14] It was crazy, the shit went way beyond some JAY-Z and Nas shit

[01:11.39] And even though the battle was won, I feel like we lost it

[01:14.14] I spent so much energy on it, honestly I'm exhausted

[01:17.14] And I'm so caught in it that I almost feel I'm the one who caused it

[01:19.89] This ain't what I'm in hip-hop for, that's not why I got in it

[01:23.14] That was never my object, for someone to get killed

[01:25.89] Why would I wanna destroy something I helped build?

[01:28.89] That wasn't my intentions, my intentions were good

[01:31.64] I went through my whole career without ever mentionin' ****

[01:34.64] And that was just outta respect, for not runnin' my mouth

[01:38.64] And talkin' about somethin' that I knew nothin' about

[01:40.39] Plus Dre told me stay out, this just wasn't my beef

[01:43.39] So I did, I just fell back, watched and gritted my teeth

[01:46.39] While he's all over TV, down-talkin' the man

[01:49.14] Who literally saved my life, like fuck it, I understand

[01:52.14] This is business, and this shit just isn't none of my business

[01:55.14] But still knowin' the shit could pop off at any minute, 'cause—

[01:58.39] Step by step, heart to heart

[02:01.14] Left, right, left, we all fall down

[02:05.89] Like toy soldiers

[02:10.14] Bit by bit, torn apart

[02:12.89] We never win, but the battle wages on

[02:18.14] For toy soldiers

[02:21.64] There used to be a time when you could just say a rhyme and

[02:24.39] Wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dyin'

[02:27.39] But now it's elevated, 'cause once you put someone's kids in it

[02:30.39] The shit gets escalated—it ain't just words no more, is it?

[02:33.89] It's a different ballgame, you call names and you ain't just rappin'

[02:36.39] We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happenin'

[02:39.14] Me and Dre had sat with him, kicked it and had a chat with him

[02:42.14] And asked him not to start it, he wasn't gonna go after him

[02:45.14] Until Ja started yappin' in magazines how he stabbed him

[02:48.14] Fuck it, 50, smash him! Mash on him, let him have it

[02:51.14] Meanwhile my attention's pulled in another direction

[02:53.64] Some receptionist at The Source who answers phones at his desk

[02:56.89] Has an erection for me and thinks that I'll be his resurrection

[03:00.14] Tries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record

[03:02.64] But now he's fucked the game up

[03:04.39] 'Cause one of the ways I came up

[03:05.89] Was through that publication, the same one that made me famous

[03:08.39] Now the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothin'?

[03:11.39] Well, fuck it, that motherfucker could get it too, fuck him then!

[03:14.39] But I'm so busy bein' pissed off, I don't stop to think

[03:17.14] That we just inherited 50's beef with Murder Inc.

[03:20.39] And he's inherited mine, which is fine, ain't like either of us mind

[03:23.89] But we still have soldiers that's on the front line

[03:26.14] Who's willin' to die for us as soon as we give the orders

[03:28.89] Never to extort us, strictly to show they support us

[03:32.14] And maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus

[03:34.89] To show 'em we love 'em back and let 'em know how important

[03:38.14] It is to have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners

[03:40.89] Their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is

[03:44.14] But I ain't tryna have none of my people hurt or murdered

[03:46.64] It ain't worth it, I can't think of a perfecter way to word it

[03:49.89] Than to just say that I love y'all too much to see the verdict

[03:52.39] I'll walk away from it all 'fore I let it go any further

[03:55.89] But don't get it twisted, it's not a plea that I'm coppin'

[03:58.39] I'm just willin' to be the bigger man, if y'all can quit poppin'

[04:01.39] Off at the jaws, well, then I can, 'cause frankly I'm sick of talkin'

[04:04.39] I'm not gonna let someone else's coffin rest on my conscience

[04:07.39] 'Cause—

[04:08.14] Step by step, heart to heart

[04:10.14] Left, right, left, we all fall down

[04:15.39] Like toy soldiers

[04:19.14] Bit by bit, torn apart

[04:21.64] We never win, but the battle wages on

[04:27.89] For toy soldiers