Eminem ☆ Not Afraid (Live at T in The Park)

Feels like a close it’s coming to
Fuck am I gonna do
It’s too late to start over
This is the only thing I thing I know
Sometimes I feel like all I ever do is
Find different ways to word the same
old song
Ever since I came along
From the day the song called
Hi My Name Is
dropped Started thinking my name was fall
Cause anytime things went wrong
I was the one who they would blame it on
The media made me the equivalent of
a modern day Genghis Kahn
Tried to argue it was only entertainment
dawg Gangsta Naw
courageous balls
Had to change my style
they said I’m way too soft
And I sound like A Z and Nas
out came the claws
And the thing’s been out since then
But up until the instant that
I’ve been against it
It was ingrained in me that
I wouldn’t amount to a shitstain I thought
No wonder I had to unlearn everything
that my brain was taught
Do I really belong in this game I pondered
I just wanna play my part
should I make waves or not
So back and forth in my brain
the tug of war wages on
And I don’t wanna seem ungrateful
or disrespect the artform I was raised upon
But sometimes you gotta take a loss
And have people rub it in your face
before you get made pissed off
And keep pluggin’
it’s your only outlet
And your only outfit
so you know they gonna talk about it
Better find a way to counter it
quick and make it ah
Feel like I’ve already said
this a kabillion eighty times
How many times can I say
the same thing different ways that rhyme
What I really wanna say is
is there anyone else
who can relate to my story
Bet you feel the same way I felt
when I was in the same place you are
I was afraid to make a single sound
Afraid I will never find
a way out out out
Afraid I never before
I didn’t wanna go another round
An angry mans power will shut you up
Trip wires fill this house with tip toe love
Run out of excuses with every word
So here I am and I will not run
Guts over fear the time is here
Guts over fear I shall not tear
For all the times I let you push me around
and let you keep me down
now I Guts over fear guts over fear
Feels like a close it’s coming to
Fuck am I gonna do
It’s too late to start over
This is the only thing I thing I know
It’s like I was there once single parents
Hate your appearance
did you struggle to
find your place in this world
And the pain spawns all the anger on
But it wasn’t until I put the
pain in songs learned
who to aim it on
That I made a spark
started to spit hard as shit
Learned how to harness it
while the reins were off
And there was a lot of bizarre shit
but the crazy part
Was soon as I stopped saying
I gave a fuck
Haters started to appreciate my art
And it just breaks my heart
to look at all the pain I’ve caused
But what am I gonna do
when the rage is gone
The lights go out in the trailer park
And the window that was closing
and there’s nowhere else
I can go with flows in
And I’m frozen cause
there’s no more emotion for me to pull from
Just a bunch of playful songs
that I made for fun
So to the break of dawn here I go
recycling the same old song
But I’d rather make
Not Afraid 2
than another make mothafuckin’
We Made You uh
Now I don’t wanna seem indulgent
when I discuss my lows and my highs
My demise and my uprise pray to God
I just opened enough eyes later on
Gave you the supplies and the tools
to hopefully use it to make you strong
And enough to lift yourself up
when you feel like I felt
Cause I can’t explain to y’all
how dang exhausted my legs felt
Just having to balance my damn self
Those dang eggshells
I was made to walk
But thank you ma
’cause that gave me the
Strength to cause Shady mania
so many empty that stadium
At least I made it out of that house
and a found a place in this world
when the day was done
So this is for every kid who all’s
they ever did was dreamt that
one day they would just get accepted
I represent him or her
or anyone similar you are the reason
that I made this song
Everything you’re scared
to say don’