Eminem - Like Toy Soldiers
Step by step, heart to heart,
left right left
We all fall down...
[Chorus]
Step by step, heart to heart,
left right left
We all fall down like toy soldiers
Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win
But the battle wages on for
toy soldiers
[Verse 1]
I'm supposed to be the soldier
who never blows his composure
Even though I hold the weight of the
whole world on my shoulders
I am never supposed to show it, my
crew ain't supposed to know it
Even if it means goin' toe to toe
with a Benzino it don't matter
I'd never drag them in battles that
I can handle unless
I absolutely have to
I'm supposed to set an example
I need to be the leader, my crew
looks for me to guide 'em
If some shit ever just pop off,
I'm supposed to be beside 'em
Now Ja said "I tried to squash it,
it was too late to stop it"
There's a certain line you just don't
cross and he crossed it
I heard him say Hailie's name on
a song and I just lost it
It was crazy, this shit be way
beyond some Jay-z and Nas shit
And even though the battle was
won, I feel like we lost it
I spent too much energy on it,
honestly I'm exhausted
And I'm so caught in it I almost feel
I'm the one who caused it
This ain't what I'm in hip-hop for,
it's not why I got in it
That was never my object for
someone to get killed
Why would I wanna destroy
something I help build
It wasn't my intentions, my
intentions was good
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
Plus Dre told me stay out, this just
wasn't my beef
So I did, I just fell back, watched
and gritted my teeth
While he's all over t.v. down
talkin' a man who literally
saved my life
Like fuck it i understand
this is business
And this shit just isn't none
of my business
But still knowin' this shit could pop
off at any minute cuz
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
There used to be a time when
you could just say a rhyme
And wouldn't have to worry
about one of your people dyin'
But now it's elevated cuz once
you put someone's kids in it
The shit gets escalated, it ain't
just words no more is it?
It's a different ball game, callin'
names and you ain't just rappin'
We actually tried to stop the 50 and
Ja beef from happenin'
Me and Dre had sat with him, kicked
it and had a chat with him
And asked him not to start
it he wasn't gonna go after him
Until Ja started yappin' in magazines
how we stabbed him
Fuck it 50 smash 'em, mash 'em
and let him have it
Meanwhile my attention is pullin'
in other directions
Some receptionist at The Source
who answers phones at his desk
Has an erection for me and thinks
that I'll be his ressurection
Tries to blow the dust off his mic
and make a new record
But now he's fucked the game up
cuz one of the ways I came up
Was through that publication the
same one that made me famous
Now the owner of it has got a
grudge against me for nothin'
Well fuck it, that mutherfucker can
get it too, fuck him then
But I'm so busy being pissed off
I don't stop to think
That we just inherited 50's beef
with Murder Inc.
And he's inherited mine which is
fine ain't like either of us mind
We still have soldiers that's on
the front line
That's willing to die for us
as soon as we give the orders
Never to extort us, strictly to
show they support us
We'll maybe shout 'em out in a
rap or up in a chorus
To show them we love 'em back and let 'em know how important it is
To have run ya nav and who
sulked us up in our corners
Their loyalty to us is worth more
than any award is
But I ain't tryna have none of my
people hurt and murdered
There ain't words that I can't think
of a perfecter way to word it
Then to just say that I love ya'll
too much to see the virdict
I'll walk away from it all before
I let it go any further
But don't get it twisted, it's not
a plea that I'm coppin'
I'm just willin' to be the bigger man
If ya'll can quit poppin' off at your
jaws with the knockin'
Cuz frankly I'm sick of talkin'
I'm not gonna let someone elses
coffin rest on my conscience cuz
[Chorus]
