Like Toy Soldiers lyrics

Artist  : Eminem 
Song : Like Toy Soldiers
 


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Step by step, heart to heart, left
right left
We all fall down
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]

I’m suppose to be the soldier
who never blows his composure
Even though I
hold the weight of the whole world on my
shoulders
I ain’t never suppose to show it,
my crew ain’t suppose to know it
Even if it
means going toe to toe with the Benzino, it
don’t matter
I never drag ‘em in battles
that I can handle less I absolutely have
to
I’m suppose 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
suppose to be beside ‘em
That Ja shit, I
tried to squashed it, it was too late to stop
it
There’s a certain line, you just don’t
cross it, and he crossed it
I heard him say
Hailie’s name on a song and I just lost
it
It was crazy, this shit went way beyond
some Jay Z and Nas shit
And even though the
battle was won, I feel like we lost it
I spent
so much energy on it, honestly I’m
exhausted
I’m so caught it I almost feel
like 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
Now it’s never my object to for
someone to get killed
Why would I wanna
destroy something I helped build
It wasn’t
my intentions, my intentions were good
I went
through my whole career with out ever mentioning
____
And that’s just outta respect for not
running my mouth
And talking about something
that I knew nothing about
Plus Dre told me
stay out, just wasn’t my beef, So I did
I
just fell back, watched and gritted my teeth
while he’s all over TV
Now I’m talking a
man who literally saved my live, like fuck
it
I understand, this is business and this
shit just isn’t none of my business
But
still knowing this shit could pop off at any
minute

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It used to be time
when you could just say a rhyme
And wouldn’t
have to worry about one of your people
dying
But now it’s elevated cause once you
put someone’s kids in it
Shit gets
escalated, it ain’t just words no more, is
it
It’s a different ball game, call names
and you ain’t just rapping
We actually tried
to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happening
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 start
gabbing in magazines how he stabbed him
Fuck
it 50, smash him, mash him, and let him have
it
Meanwhile my intentions pulley’d in other
directions
Some receptionist said the source
who answers phones at his desk has an erection
for me and thinks that I’ll be his
resurrection
Tries to blow the dust of his mic
and make a new record
But now he’s fucked the
game up cause one of the ways I came was through
that publication, the same one that made me
famous
Now the owner of it got a grudge
against me for nothing but fuck it
That motha
fucker can get it too, fuck ‘em 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
Still have
soldiers that is 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
Maybe shout ‘em out in a rap or
up in chorus to show we love ‘em back
And to
let ‘em know how important is to have Runyon
Avenue soldiers up in
our corners
Their
loyalty to us is worth more then any award
is
But I ain’t trying to have none of me
people hurt or murdered
It ain’t worth it, I
can’t think of a perfecter way to word
it
Then to just say that I love y’all too
much to see the verdict
I’ll walk away from
it all before I’ll let it go any further
Now
don’t get it twisted, it’s not a plea that
I’m coping
I’m just willing to be the
bigger man
If y’all can quiet popping off at
the jaws with the knocking
Cause frankly I’m
sick of talking
I’m not gonna let someone
else’s coffin rest on my
conscious

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