Lately I’ve been hard to reach, I’ve been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world where they can be alone
Are you calling me? Are you trying to get through?
Are you reaching out for me, like I’m reaching out for you?
[Eminem:]
I’m just so fuckin’ depressed, I just can’t seem to get out this slump
If I could just get over this hump
But I need something to pull me out this dump,
I took my bruises, took my lumps
Fell down and I got right back up
But I need that spark to get psyched back up
In order for me to pick the mic back up
I don’t know how or why or when I ended up in this position I’m in
I’m starting to feel distant again
So I decided just to pick this pen
Up and try to make an attempt to vent
But I just can’t admit
Or come to grips with the fact that I may be done with rap
I need a new outlet, and I know some shit’s so hard to swallow
But I just can’t sit back and wallow
In my own sorrow
But I know one fact I’ll be one tough act to follow
One tough act to follow
I’ll be one tough act to follow
Here today, gone tomorrow
But you’d have to walk a thousand miles
In my shoes, just to see
What it’s like, to be me
I’ll be you, let’s trade shoes
Just to see what it’d be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other’s minds
Just to see what we find
Look at shit through each other’s eyes
But don’t let ‘em say you ain’t beautiful, oh
They can all get fucked.
Just stay true to you
So don’t let ‘em say you ain’t beautiful
Oh, they can all get fucked.
Just stay true to you, yeah, so…
I think I’m starting to lose my sense of humor
Everything is so tense and gloom
I almost feel like I gotta check the temperature in the room
Just as soon as I walk in
It’s like all eyes on me
So I try to avoid any eye contact
’Cause if I do that then it opens the door for conversation
Like I want that… I’m not looking for extra attention
I just want to be just like you
Blend in with the rest of the room
Maybe just point me to the closest restroom
I don’t need no fucking man servant
Trying to follow me around and wipe my ass
Laugh at every single joke I crack
And half of them ain’t even funny like
”Ha!, Marshall you’re so funny man, you should be a comedian, God damn”
Unfortunately I am, but I just hide behind the tears of a clown
So why don’t you all sit down?
Listen to the tale I’m about to tell
Hell, we don’t gotta trade our shoes
And you ain’t gotta walk no thousand miles
In my shoes, just to see
What it’s like, to be me
I’ll be you, let’s trade shoes
Just to see what it’d be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other’s minds
Just to see what we find
Look at shit through each other’s eyes
But don’t let ‘em say you ain’t beautiful
Oh they can all get fucked.
Just stay true to you so
Don’t let ‘em say you ain’t beautiful
Oh they can all get fucked.
Just stay true to you so
Nobody asked for life to deal us
With these bullshit hands we’re dealt
We gotta take these cards ourselves
And flip them, don’t expect no help
Now I could have either just
Sat on my ass and pissed and moaned
Or take this situation in which I’m placed in
And get up and get my own
I was never the type of kid
To wait by the door and pack his bags
Who sat on the porch and hoped and prayed
For a dad to show up who never did
I just wanted to fit in
In every single place
Every school I went
I dreamed of being that cool kid
Even if it meant acting stupid
Aunt Edna always told me “Keep makin’ that face it’ll get stuck like that”
Meanwhile I’m just standin’ there
Holdin’ my tongue tryna talk like this
’Til I stuck my tongue on that frozen stop sign pole at 8 years old
I learned my lesson then cause I wasn’t tryna impress my friends no more
But I already told you my whole life story
Not just based on my description
’Cause where you see it from where you’re sitting
It’s probably 110% different
I guess we would have to walk a mile
In each other’s shoes, at least
What size you wear? I wear tens
Let’s see if you can fit your feet
In my shoes, just to see
What it’s like, to be me
I’ll be you, let’s trade shoes
Just to see what it’d be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other’s minds
Just to see what we find
Look at shit through each other’s eyes
But don’t let ‘em say you ain’t beautiful, oh
They can all get fucked.
Just stay true to you
So don’t let ‘em say you ain’t beautiful
Oh, they can all get fucked.
Just stay true to you, yeah, so…
[Sample - Rock Therapy “Reaching Out”:]
Lately I’ve been hard to reach, I’ve been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world where they can be alone…
So are you calling me, are you trying to get through, oh?
Are you reaching out for me, like I’m reaching out for you?
So oh oh
[Eminem:]
Yeah… To my babies. Stay strong.
Daddy will be home soon
And to the rest of the world, God gave you them shoes
To fit you, so put ‘em on and wear ‘em
Be yourself, man, be proud of who you are
Even if it sounds corny,
Don’t ever let no one tell you, you ain’t beautiful
So…
[Eminem and Sia:]
I can feel the heat rising, everything is on fire
Today is a painful reminder of why
We can only get brighter
The further you put it behind ya
But right now I’m on the inside
Lookin’ out, ‘cause
[Sia:]
I’m standin’ in the flames
It’s a beautiful kind of pain
Settin’ fire to yesterday
Find the light, find the light, find the light
I’m standin’ in the flames
It’s a beautiful kind of pain
Settin’ fire to yesterday
Find the light, find the light, find the light
[Eminem:]
Yesterday was the tornado warning
Today’s like the morning after
Your world is torn in half
You wake in its wake to start the mourning process
And rebuilding, you’re still a work in progress
Today’s a whole new chapter
It’s like an enormous asthma
Thunderstorm has passed ya
You weathered it and poked its eye out
poke: [I] + adv./prep.if an object is poking out of, through, etc. sth, you can see a part of it that is no longer covered by sth else 露出；伸出；探出
The end of the cable was left poking out of the wall.
电缆头从墙里露出来了。
Clumps of grass poked up through the snow.
一簇簇的草破雪而出。
With the thorn bush that you
Used to smell the roses
Stopped to inhale, can’t even tell your nose is, stuffed
filled with mucus because of illness（被鼻涕）塞住的
My nose is stuffed (up). = I’m (all) stuffed up.a stuffed (up) nose
So focused on the bright side
Then you floor the gas pedal
floor: ~ the accelerator to press the accelerator pedal of a car hard
And hit the corner fast the more asserted
Never looking back
May hit the curb
(NAmE) (BrE kerb) the edge of the raised path at the side of a road, usually made of long pieces of stone （由条石砌成的）路缘，道牙，马路牙子
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The bus mounted the curb (= went onto the sidewalk/ pavement ) and hit a tree.
那辆公交车开上路缘撞到了一棵树上。
But every day is a new learning curve as you
Steer through life, sometimes you might not wanna swerve
steer: [T] ~ sth + adv./prep.to take control of a situation and influence the way in which it develops 操纵；控制；引导
He managed to steer the conversation away from his divorce.
他设法避开他离婚这话题。
She steered the team to victory.
她率领全队取得胜利。
The skill is in steering a middle course between the two extremes.
技巧就在于避开这两个极端，走中间路线。
But you have to
To avert a disaster
Lucky no permanent damage
’Cause they hurt you so bad
It’s like they murdered your ass
And threw dirt on your casket but you’ve returned from the ashes
And that hurt that you have, you just converted to gasoline(=gas)
And while you’re burning the past, standing in the inferno and chant
chant: verb
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[I, T] to sing or shout the same words or phrases many times
A group of protesters, chanting and carrying placards, waited outside.
一群抗议者等候在外面，举着标语牌不停地喊着口号。
~ sth
The crowd chanted their hero’s name.
人群不断地呼唤着自己英雄的名字。
‘Resign! Resign!’ they chanted.
“辞职！辞职！” 他们反复喊叫着。
[Sia:]
I’m standin’ in the flames
It’s a beautiful kind of pain
Settin’ fire to yesterday
Find the light, find the light, find the light
I’m standin’ in the flames
It’s a beautiful kind of pain
Settin’ fire to yesterday
Find the light, find the light, find the light
[Eminem:]
You’re so familiarized with what having to swallow this pill is like
It happens all the time, they take your heart and steal your life
And it’s as though you feel you’ve died
’Cause you’ve been killed inside
But yet you’re still alive
Which means you will survive
Although today you may weep ‘cause you’re weakened
And everything seems so bleak and hopeless
The light that you’re seekin’
It begins to seep in
That’s the only thing keepin’
You from leapin’ off the motherfreakin’ deep end
And I’m pullin’ for you to push through this feeling
And with a little time that should do the healing
And by tomorrow
You may even feel so good that you’re willing to forgive ‘em even after
All the shit you been put through this feeling of resilience is building
And the flames are burning quick as fire would through this building
You’re sealed in but you’re fireproof, flame retardant, you withstood it
~ sth (formal) to be strong enough not to be hurt or damaged by extreme conditions, the use of force, etc. 承受；抵住；顶住；经受住 SYN resist, stand up to
The materials used have to be able to withstand high temperatures.
所使用的材料必须能够耐高温。
They had withstood siege, hunger and deprivation.
他们经受了围困、饥饿和贫穷
And as you climb up to the roof, you’re just chillin’ you look down
’Cause you’re so over ‘em
You could put the heel of your foot through the ceiling
As time passes
Things change every day
But wounds, wounds heal, but scars still remain the same
But tomorrow today’s going down in flames
Throw the match, set the past ablaze
So feel the fire beneath your feet as you barely even perspire
From the heat
Exhale deep and breathe a sigh of relief
And as you say goodbye to the grief
It’s like watching the walls melt in your prison cell
But you’ve extinguished this living hell
Still a little piece of you dies as you scream
[Sia:]
I’m standin’ in the flames
It’s a beautiful kind of pain
Settin’ fire to yesterday
Find the light, find the light, find the light
I’m standin’ in the flames
It’s a beautiful kind of pain
Settin’ fire to yesterday
Find the light, find the light, find the light
I feel the burn, watch the smoke as I turn
Rising, a phoenix from the flames
I have learned, from fighting fights, that weren’t mine
Not with fists, but with wings that I will fly
I’m standin’ in the flames
It’s a beautiful kind of pain
Settin’ fire to yesterday
Find the light, find the light, find the light
I’m standin’ in the flames
It’s a beautiful kind of pain
Settin’ fire to yesterday
Find the light, find the light, find the light