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Talkin' 2 Myself Lyrics

Ayo, before I start this song man
I just wanna, thank everybody for being so patient
And bearing with me over these last couple of years
While I figure this shit out

Is anybody out there? It feels like I'm talking to myself
No one seems to know my struggle, and everything I've come from
Can anybody hear me? Yeah, I guess I keep talking to myself
It feels like I'm going insane, am I the one whose crazy?
(So why in the world, do I feel so alone?
Nobody but me, I'm on my own
Is there anyone out there, who feels the way I feel?
If there is, let me hear just so I know that I'm not the only one)

I went away I guess and opened up some lanes
But there was no one who even knew I was going through, growing pains
Hatred was flowing through my veins, on the verge of going insane
I almost made a song dissing Lil Wayne
It's like I was jealous of him 'cause of the attention he was gettin'
I felt horrible about myself, he was spittin'
And I wasn't, anyone who was buzzin' back then coulda got it
Almost went at Kanye too,
God it feels like I'm going psychotic, thank God that I didn't do it
I'da had my ass handed to me, and I knew it
But Proof isn't here to see me through it
I'm in the booth, popping another pill, tryna talk myself into it
Are you stupid? You're gon' start dissing people for no reason?
'Specially when you can't even write a decent punchline even?
You're lying to yourself, you're slowly dying
You're denying your health is declining with your self-esteem
You're crying out for help

Is anybody out there? It feels like I'm talking to myself
No one seems to know my struggle, and everything I've come from
Can anybody hear me? Yeah, I guess I keep talking to myself
It feels like I'm going insane, am I the one whose crazy?
(So why in the world, do I feel so alone?
Nobody but me, I'm on my own
Is there anyone out there, who feels the way I feel?
If there is, let me hear just so I know that I'm not the only one)

Marshall you're no longer the man, that's a bitter pill to swallow
All I know is I'm wallowing, self-loathing and hollow
Bottoms up on the pill bottle, maybe I'll hit my bottom tomorrow
My sorrow echoes in this hall though
But I must be talking to the wall though I don't see nobody else
(I guess I keep talking to myself)
But all these other rappers suck is all that I know
I've turned into a hater, I put up a false bravado
But Marshall is not an egomaniac, that's not his motto
He's not a desperado, he's desperate, his thoughts are bottled
Inside him, one foot on the brake, one on the throttle
Falling asleep with writer's block in the parking lot of McDonald's
But instead of feeling sorry for yourself do something 'bout it
Admit you got a problem, your brain is clouded, you pouted
Long enough, it isn't them it's you you fucking baby
Quit worrying 'bout what they do and do Shady, I'm fucking going crazy

Is anybody out there? It feels like I'm talking to myself
No one seems to know my struggle, and everything I've come from
Can anybody hear me? Yeah, I guess I keep talking to myself
It feels like I'm going insane, am I the one whose crazy?
(So why in the world, do I feel so alone?
Nobody but me, I'm on my own
Is there anyone out there, who feels the way I feel?
If there is, let me hear just so I know that I'm not the only one)

So I picked myself off the ground and fucking swam 'fore I drowned
Hit my bottom so hard I bounced twice, suffice, this time around
It's different, them last two albums didn't count
Encore I was on drugs, Relapse I was flushing 'em out
I've come to make it up to ya now, no more fucking around
I got something to prove to fans 'cause I feel like I let 'em down
So please accept my apology, I finally feel like I'm back to normal
I feel like me again, let me formally
Reintroduce myself to you for those of you who don't know
The new me's back to the old me and homie I don't show no
Signs of slowing up, oh and I'm blowing up
All over my life is no longer a movie but the show ain't over homos
I'm back with a vengeance homie, Weezy keep ya head up
T.i. Keep ya head up, Kanye keep ya head up, don't let up
Just keep slaying 'em, rest in peace to DJ AM
'Cause I know what it's like
I struggle with this shit every single day and um

Is anybody out there? It feels like I'm talking to myself
No one seems to know my struggle, and everything I've come from
Can anybody hear me? Yeah, I guess I keep talking to myself
It feels like I'm going insane, am I the one whose crazy?
(So why in the world, do I feel so alone?
Nobody but me, I'm on my own
Is there anyone out there, who feels the way I feel?
If there is, let me hear just so I know that I'm not the only one)

So there it is, damn
Feels like I just woke up or something
I guess I just, forgot who the fuck I was man
Ayo, and to anybody I thought about going at
It was never nothing personal
It was just some shit I was going through
And to everybody else. I'm back! Ha ha
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This is my jam right here. I can listen to this over and over. Such an honest song. I think Em is talking about how lately he hasn't fit the mold of the gimmick the rap game has turned into. "But all these other rappers suck is all that I know"- I interpret this line to call out all the Soulja Boys and "Get Silly" guys and Gucci Mane ice rap goin around. I admit, that sort of music is great in the club, keep it there. I'm glad there is still rap coming out with a message. I believe the overall meaning relays that he listened to encore and relapse and was like "WTF? where's Criminal? Stan? Marshal Matthers? Lose Yourself? The Real Slim Shady? Where's the hits?" That's what is was thinking, Old Time's Sake was the only song I could listen to on Relapse, that and 3 AM, still those don't come close to the tracks on his first couple albums. He felt he was being ignored, making songs no one was listening to. I put Eminem up there with 2Pac, Jay Z, Gangstarr, and Dead Prez. Great lyricist, Badass new album. BTW who is KOBE? Everytime I hear this song I imagine Kobe Bryant singing and it makes me laugh. I heard it's an R&B artist named KOBE, but I've never heard of him

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safa king cool, i respect what you say usually, you say a lot of good shit, but jus cuz eminem says encore wasn't his best shit doesn't make it true. i thought encore was real solid. he had a serious, romantic, silly, and political aspects to it. it was real various and i thought he weaved it all together well. again, not an argument, but i thought i jus had to say that

he was talking about relapse...

Not Valid
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This song is about how he felt like he was stuck in place. The comment one foot on the break one on the throttle falling asleep with writer's block in the parking lot at McDonald's. That mixed with "them last two albums didn't count, encore I was on drugs relapse I was flushing em out" he never kept his drug addiction a secret, but the song Going Through Changes with Ozzy Osbourne renowned drug addict and Rockstar doing the chorus. That Song speaks to his overdose, "wake up in the hospital full of tubes plus somehow I'm pulling through swear when I come back Imma Be Bulletproof, Ima do it just for proof, I think I should state a few, facts, cuz I may not get another chance to say the truth, s* it just hit me what if I had not have made it through, I'd never get to make it right, so here's what I came to do, Haley this one is for you, Whitney and Elena too". To anyone who's taking Ambien before they know the fuge state it brings on the dreamlike sleepwalking. Just like the line and I need a doctor, and I don't know if I was awake or asleep when I wrote this, all I know is, you came to me when I was at my lowest, you pick me up read new life in me I owe my life to you but for the life of me I don't see why you don't see like I do. So Eminem's net worth is exactly the same as it was after the Eminem Show the reason for that was he doesn't make very much from album sales anymore he made about 150 mil per tour but the lifestyle when you're on tour and you're the best in your genre and a bachelor when you're trying to be a role model for your daughter as a single father, so he gave it up. Encore, Curtain Call, The Re-Up collaboration, relapse, recovery, Bad Meets evil: hell the sequel, mmlp2, Shady XV collaboration of some of his favorite works remixes of old stuff and experimenting with new style, Revival, kamikaze, music to be murdered by, and the sequel to that mtbmb side B, his style on relapse was incredible Encore was terrible aside from Mockingbird, Crazy In Love, evil seed and relapse had beautiful, Crack a Bottle but recovery was a masterpiece his struggle after putting out The Slim Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP, and the Eminem show not including infinite before all of them or the time he took recording the first one but from the release of his first triple platinum to the Third barely two years span three albums in 3 years March of each year. Like the line on Criminal. Preacher, preacher, 5th grade teacher, you can't reach me my mom can't neither, you can't teach me a goddamn thing cuz, I watch TV and Comcast cable, and you ain't able to stop these thoughts, and you can't stop me from topping these charts, and you can't stop me from dropping each March with a brand new CD for these f** retards in the think it's just little old me Mr don't give a f* still won't bleed Ima Criminal. Then two full years after Eminem Show and we got encore his singular flop then Curtain Call to buy him time, then relapse 3 years after encore so even if he got back to back in Platinum Status it's whack if I'm not the baddest. Then he still probably felt like he was stuck in place from 04 to 2010 a lot of the info I had was from his autobiography that was titled the way I am sometime during his recovery mentions of encore we're in the book but not relapse Curtain Call the 8 Mile soundtrack or The Re-Up being a white rapper on top people figured he'd Crash and Burn sometime but people didn't expect a meteoric rise back to the top of if not the majority a very large chunk of public opinion. And off one of his new albums it's true I just get richer but if it was ever just all about s h r i l l e r then I would have quit a long mother f** time ago but lately instead of being credited for longevity and being able to keep it up for this long at this level we, get told we'll never be what we were b if I'm half as good as I was that I'm still twice as good as you'll ever be only way you're ahead of me is alphabetically cuz if you diss me I'm coming after you like the letter v play this tune at your eulogy prepare to die this is music for you to be murdered by. His obsessive compulsive nature to write everything down, demand Perfection from himself, be a role model, and don't put anything out unless it's on the level of everything else he's released after getting flat for Shady XV which was The Cypher 2.0 experiment and Revival playing with a different style. I've memorized lyrics from every album every song track the track number of every song and picked it apart enough to know that I'm doing exactly what he said people do in one of his earlier songs, that's why they put my lyrics up under this microscope searching with a fine tooth comb, it's like this rope waiting to choke(choking sounds) tightening around my throat watching me while I write this like I don't like this no all I hear is lyrics lyrics constant controversies sponsors working around the clock to try to stop my conscience early surely Hip Hop was never a problem in Harlem only in Boston after it bothered the fathers of daughters starting to Blossom so now I'm catching the flag from these activists when I'm rapping acting like I'm the first rapper to smack a b or say f* s just look at me like I'm your closest pal the poster child the mother f** spokesman now for White America

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good song, not really the best hook. good explanation of the last few years i agree that encore relapse weren't eminem's best works but he still had incredible songs on both those albums and i don't want him to be too hard on himself because he hasn't put out an album that isn't listenable to. maybe if the whole album was "ass like that" he would need to apologize. a whole album without accents is awesome.

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minor correction to the lyrics:

The beginning of the 2nd verse should be "that's a bitter pill to swallow" not "that's a bit of pill to swallow

I actually think this is one of the better hooks on the album. It really captures the isolation Em experienced subsequent to Proof's death, his addiction to drugs, and his temporary fall from the game.

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Eminem never fails to reveal what he's going through or what he has gone through in his songs. I really respect him for that.

When Eminem talked about almost making a diss record against Kanye and Lil Wayne, because he was envious of the attention they were getting, but didn't because he knew he would get his ass handed to him IS A LIE on his part. lol. COME ON. Eminem discredits himself a little too much. Kanye's lyrics don't even come close to Eminem's. And Lil Wayne is nothing but a punchline rapper....Just saying.

Eminem never fell from the game in my opinion. He has always been respected. And his BOTH his album sales reflect that.

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^^ Some corrections to lyrics here: baring with me - BEARING with me

whose crazy - WHO'S crazy

to open up some lanes - AND OPENED up some lanes

some wallowing - I'M wallowing

(the missing line) MY SORROW ECHOES IN THIS HALL THOUGH

slam before I drown - SWAM before I DROWNED

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This song was so well written it's not even funny. I think most of the song talks about everything that came from his addiction, and how he felt. Being jealous of Kanye and Lil Wayne, and then how he talks encore he was on drugs, and relapse he was flushing them out. I thought that line was a great line and it really stuck to me. And his apology to his fans. I thought it was a great song and it really shows how the drugs affected him. Great song.

Cover art for Talkin' 2 Myself lyrics by Eminem

It's about the feeling of expressing hopelessness, anguish and desperation but nobody can hear it when you speak. It feels like a waste of time speaking. Depression brings this on.