[id:$00000000] [ar:Eminem] [ti:Like Toy Soldiers] [by:] [hash:937a7e136817dbba97d59a34af61f864] [al:] [sign:] [qq:] [total:0] [offset:0] [00:00.62]Step by step heart to heart left right left [00:04.43]We all fall down [00:09.35]Step by step heart to heart left right left [00:13.49]We all fall down like toy soldiers [00:21.12]Bit by bit torn apart we never win [00:25.30]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers [00:32.52]I'm supposed to be the soldier who never blows his posure [00:35.20]Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders [00:39.18]I am never supposed to show it my crew ain't supposed to know it [00:42.07]Even if it means goin' toe to toe with a Benzino it don't matter [00:45.12]I'd never drag them in battles [00:46.50]That I can handle unless I absolutely have to [00:48.56]I'm supposed to set an example [00:49.87]I need to be the leader my crew looks for me to guide 'em [00:53.25]If some sh*t ever just pop off I'm supposed to be beside 'em [00:56.29]Now Ja said I tried to squash it it was too late to stop it [00:59.91]There's a certain line you just don't cross and he crossed it [01:02.28]I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it [01:05.72]It was crazy this sh*t be way beyond some Jay-z and Nas sh*t [01:08.21]And even though the battle was won I feel like we lost it [01:10.58]I spent too much energy on it honestly I'm exhausted [01:12.70]And I'm so caught in it I almost feel I'm the one who caused it [01:16.57]This ain't what I'm in hip-hop for it's not why I got in it [01:19.57]That was never my object for someone to get killed [01:22.19]Why would I wanna destroy something I help build [01:25.25]It wasn't my intentions my intentions was good [01:28.05]I went through my whole career without ever mentionin' ( ) [01:31.74]Plus Dre told me stay out this just wasn't my beef [01:39.91]So I did I just fell back watched and gritted my teeth [01:42.84]While he's all over t v down talkin' a man who literally saved my life [01:46.21]Like f**k it i understand this is business [01:49.02]And this sh*t just isn't none of my business [01:51.70]But still knowin' this sh*t could pop off at any minute cuz [01:54.76]Step by step heart to heart left right left [01:58.94]We all fall down like toy soldiers [02:06.43]Bit by bit torn apart we never win [02:10.86]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers [02:18.35]There used to be a time when you could just say a rhyme [02:21.10]And wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dyin' [02:23.78]But now it's elevated cuz once you put someone's kids in it [02:26.77]The sh*t gets escalated it ain't just words no more is it [02:29.83]It's a different ball game callin' names and you ain't just rappin' [02:32.58]We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happenin' [02:35.51]Me and Dre had sat with him kicked it and had a chat with him [02:38.89]And asked him not to start it he wasn't gonna go after him [02:41.62]Until Ja started yappin' in magazines how we stabbed him [02:44.18]F**k it 50 smash 'em mash 'em and let him have it [02:47.43]Meanwhile my attention is pullin' in other directions [02:49.81]Some receptionist at The Source who answers phones at his desk [02:53.29]Has an erection for me and thinks that I'll be his ressurection [02:56.29]Tries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record [02:59.22]But now he's f**ked the game up cuz one of the ways I came up [03:02.65]Was through that publication the same one that made me famous [03:04.71]Now the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothin' [03:07.71]Well f**k it that mutherf**ker can get it too f**k him then [03:10.58]But I'm so busy being pissed off I don't stop to think [03:13.70]That we just inherited 50's beef with Murder Inc [03:16.38]And he's inherited mine which is fine ain't like either of us mind [03:19.89]We still have soldiers that's on the front line [03:22.43]That's willing to die for us as soon as we give the orders [03:25.30]Never to extort us strictly to show they support us [03:28.49]We'll maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus [03:31.48]To show them we love 'em back and let 'em know how important it is [03:34.98]To have run ya nav and who sulked us up in our corners [03:38.10]Their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is [03:40.34]But I ain't tryna have none of my people hurt and murdered [03:42.83]There ain't words that I can't think of a perfecter way to word it [03:46.02]Then to just say that I love ya'll too much to see the virdict [03:48.76]I'll walk away from it all before I let it go any further [03:51.51]But don't get it twisted it's not a plea that I'm coppin' [03:54.83]I'm just willin' to be the bigger man [03:56.81]If ya'll can quit poppin' off at your jaws with the knockin' [03:59.62]Cuz frankly I'm sick of talkin' [04:00.93]I'm not gonna let someone elses coffin rest on my conscience cuz [04:03.69]Step by step heart to heart left right left [04:08.18]We all fall down like toy soldiers [04:15.72]Bit by bit torn apart we never win [04:19.96]But the battle wages on for toy soldiers