Like Toy Soldiers

[ti:Like Toy Soldiers] [ar:Eminem] [al:Encore] [by:van] [offset:500] [0:0]欢迎访问 我爱音乐 [00:00.00]Eminem - Like Toy Soldiers [00:00.39] [00:00.49]Step by step, heart to heart, left right left [00:04.81]We all fall down... [00:07.48] [Chorus] [00:09.71]Step by step, heart to heart, left right left [00:13.55]We all fall down like toy soldiers [00:21.02]Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win [00:25.34]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers [00:32.47] [Verse 1] [00:32.70]I'm supposed to be the soldier who never blows his composure [00:35.47]Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders [00:38.25]I am never supposed to show it, my crew ain't supposed to know it [00:41.23]Even if it means goin' toe to toe with a Benzino it don't matter [00:44.77]I'd never drag them in battles [00:46.09]that I can handle unless I absolutely have to [00:48.55]I'm supposed to set an example [00:49.94]I need to be the leader, my crew looks for me to guide 'em [00:53.04]If some shit ever just pop off, I'm supposed to be beside 'em [00:55.84]Now Ja said I tried to squash it, it was too late to stop it [00:58.82]There's a certain line you just don't cross and he crossed it [01:01.78]I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it [01:04.67]It was crazy, this shit be way beyond some Jay-z and Nas shit [01:07.66]And even though the battle was won, I feel like we lost it [01:10.41]I spent too much energy on it, honestly I'm exhausted [01:13.41]And I'm so caught in it I almost feel I'm the one who caused it [01:16.35]This ain't what I'm in hip-hop for, it's not why I got in it [01:19.48]That was never my object for someone to get killed [01:22.20]Why would I wanna destroy something I help build [01:25.11]It wasn't my intentions, my intentions was good [01:27.97]I went through my whole career without ever mentionin' (?) Now it's just out of respect for not runnin' my mouth And talkin' about something that I knew nothing about [01:36.63]Plus Dre told me stay out, this just wasn't my beef [01:39.59]So I did, I just fell back, watched and gritted my teeth [01:42.51]While he's all over t.v. down talkin' a man who literally saved my life [01:46.78]Like fuck it i understand this is business [01:49.21]And this shit just isn't none of my business [01:51.40]But still knowin' this shit could pop off at any minute cuz [01:54.52] [Chorus] [01:54.75]Step by step, heart to heart, left right left [01:58.73]We all fall down like toy soldiers [02:06.11]Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win [02:10.47]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers [02:17.81] [Verse 2] [02:18.04]There used to be a time when you could just say a rhyme [02:20.38]And wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dyin' [02:23.40]But now it's elevated cuz once you put someone's kids in it [02:26.54]The shit gets escalated, it ain't just words no more is it? [02:29.44]It's a different ball game, callin' names and you ain't just rappin' [02:32.31]We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happenin' [02:35.30]Me and Dre had sat with him, kicked it and had a chat with him [02:38.19]And asked him not to start it he wasn't gonna go after him [02:41.02]Until Ja started yappin' in magazines how we stabbed him [02:44.06]Fuck it 50 smash 'em, mash 'em and let him have it [02:46.93]Meanwhile my attention is pullin' in other directions [02:49.58]Some receptionist at The Source who answers phones at his desk [02:52.90]Has an erection for me and thinks that I'll be his ressurection [02:55.66]Tries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record [02:58.48]But now he's fucked the game up cuz one of the ways I came up [03:01.47]Was through that publication the same one that made me famous [03:04.22]Now the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothin' [03:07.37]Well fuck it, that mutherfucker can get it too, fuck him then [03:10.41]But I'm so busy being pissed off I don't stop to think [03:13.03]That we just inherited 50's beef with Murder Inc. [03:15.98]And he's inherited mine which is fine ain't like either of us mind [03:19.50]We still have soldiers that's on the front line [03:21.77]That's willing to die for us as soon as we give the orders [03:24.83]Never to extort us, strictly to show they support us [03:27.62]We'll maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus [03:30.50]To show them we love 'em back and let 'em know how important it is [03:33.72]To have run ya nav and who sulked us up in our corners [03:36.42]Their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is [03:39.48]But I ain't tryna have none of my people hurt and murdered [03:42.34]There ain't words that I can't think of a perfecter way to word it [03:45.20]Then to just say that I love ya'll too much to see the virdict [03:48.10]I'll walk away from it all before I let it go any further [03:51.06]But don't get it twisted, it's not a plea that I'm coppin' [03:53.99]I'm just willin' to be the bigger man [03:55.74]If ya'll can quit poppin' off at your jaws with the knockin' [03:58.43]Cuz frankly I'm sick of talkin' [03:59.79]I'm not gonna let someone elses coffin rest on my conscience cuz [04:02.98] [Chorus] [04:03.22]Step by step, heart to heart, left right left [04:07.16]We all fall down like toy soldiers [04:14.55]Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win [04:18.90]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers [04:26.73] [04:30.20] [04:39.83] [04:51.19]END