Cleanin' Out My Closet 

© Marshall Mathers 

[Intro] 
Where's my snare? 
I have no snare in my headphones 
 - there you go 
Yeah.. yo, yo 

[Eminem] 
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****n' kid 
 that's behind 
All [bad word] [bad word] deep as 
 ocean's explodin' 
Tempers flarin' from parents just blow 'em 
 off and keep goin' 
Not takin' nothin from no one give 'em [bad word] 
 long as I'm breathin' 
Keep kickin [bad word] in the mornin' and takin' 
 names in the evenin' 
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 momma? 
I'ma make you look so ridiculous now 

 [bad word]  
I'm sorry momma! 
I never meant to hurt you! 
I never meant to make you cry; but tonight 

I'm Cleanin out my closet (one more time) 
I said I'm sorry momma! 
I never meant to hurt you! 
I never meant to make you cry; but tonight 

I'm cleanin' out my closet 

[Eminem] 
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'ma expose it; I'll take you back to '73 
before I ever had a multi-platinum sellin' CD 

I was a baby, maybe I was just a couple of 
 months 
My [bad word] 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****n' 
 wished he would die 
I look at Hailie, and I couldn't picture 
 leavin' 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 [bad word] I did was take the 
 bullets outta that gun 
Cuz I'da killed him; [bad word] I woulda shot Kim 
 and them both 
It's my life, I'd like to [bad word] y'all to 
 "The Eminem Show" 

 [bad word]  

[Eminem] 
Now I would never diss my own momma just to 
 get recognition 
Take a second to listen for who you think 
 this record is dissin' 
But put yourself in my position; just try 
 to envision 
witnessin' your momma poppin' prescription 
 pills in the kitchen 
 [bad word] #39; that someone's always goin through 
 her purse and [bad word] #39;s missin' 
Goin through public housin' systems, victim 
 of Munchausen'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 gettin older now and 
 it's cold when your lonely 
And Nathan's growin' up so quick he's gonna 
 know that your phony 
And Hailie's gettin 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 
 [bad word] do your song - keep tellin' yourself 
 that you was a mom! 
But how dare you try to take what you didn't 
 help me to get 
You selfish [bad word]  I hope you f****n' burn 
 in [bad word] for this [bad word] 
Remember when Ronnie died and you said you 
 wished it was me? 
Well guess what, I +AM+ dead - de