Cleanin' Out My Closet - It's a Cover Up
Written by:Jeffery Bass/Marshall Mathers
Where's my snare
I have no snare in my headphones
There you go
Yeah yo yo
Have you ever been hated or discriminated against
I have I've been protested and demonstrated against
Picket signs for my wicked rhymes look at the times
Sick as the mind of the motherf**king kid that's behind
All this commotion emotions run deep as ocean's exploding
Tempers flaring from parents just blow 'em off and keep going
Not taking nothing from no one give 'em hell long as I'm breathing
Keep kicking a** in the morning and taking names in the evening
Leave 'em with a taste as sour as vinegar in they mouth
See they can trigger me but they'll never figure me out
Look at me now I bet ya probably sick of me now ain't you mama
I'mma make you look so ridiculous now
I'm sorry mama
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to make you cry but tonight
I'm cleaning out my closet one more time
I said I'm sorry mama
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to make you cry but tonight
I'm cleaning out my closet
Ha I got some skeletons in my closet
And I don't know if no one knows it
So before they thrown me inside my coffin and close it
I'mma expose it I'll take you back to '73
Before I ever had a multi platinum selling CD
I was a baby maybe I was just a couple of months
My faggot father must have had his panties up in a bunch
'Cause he split I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye
No I don't on second thought I just f**king wished he would die
I look at hailie and I couldn't picture leaving her side
Even if I hated Kim I grit my teeth and I'd try
To make it work with her at least for hailie's sake
I maybe made some mistakes
But I'm only human but I'm man enough to face them today
What I did was stupid no doubt it was dumb
But the smartest sh*t I did was take them bullets outta that gun
'Cause I'da killed him sh*t I would've shot Kim and him both
It's my life I'd like to welcome y'all to the Eminem show
I'm sorry mama
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to make you cry but tonight
I'm cleaning out my closet one more time
I said I'm sorry mama
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to make you cry but tonight
I'm cleaning out my closet
Now I would never diss my own mama just to get recognition
Take a second to listen 'fore you think this record is dissing
But put yourself in my position just try to envision
Witnessing your mama popping prescription pills in the kitchen
B**ching that someone's always going through her purse and sh*t's missing
Going through public housing systems victim of Munchhausen's syndrome
My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't
'Til I grew up now I blew up it makes you sick to ya stomach
Doesn't it wasn't it the reason you made that CD for me ma
So you could try to justify the way you treated me ma
But guess what you're getting older now and it's cold when you're lonely
And nathan's growing up so quick he's gonna know that you're phony
And hailie's getting so big now you should see her she's beautiful
But you'll never see her she won't even be at your funeral
See what hurts me the most is you won't admit you was wrong
B**ch do your song keep telling yourself that you was a mom
But how dare you try to take what you didn't help me to get
You selfish b**ch I hope you f**king burn in hell for this sh*t
Remember when Ronnie died and you said you wished it was me
Well guess what I am dead dead to you as can be
I'm sorry mama
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to make you cry but tonight
I'm cleaning out my closet one more time
I said I'm sorry mama
I never meant to hurt you
I never meant to make you cry but tonight
I'm cleaning out my closet