Cleaning out my closet       (Listen to midi)

 

    (The following chords are used  throughout the song :

    Am - E    Am - E     F - E - Am - E)   

 

 

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                      Where's my snare?

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    I have no snare on my headphones.

 

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1. Have you ever been hated, or discriminated against ?

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    I have, I've been protested and demonstrated against,

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    picket signs for my wicked rhymes, look at the times

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    sick as the mind of the mother fucking kid that's behind.

 

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    All this commotion, emotions run deep as oceans, exploding,

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    tempers flaring from parents, just blow ‘em off and keep going,

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    not taking nothing from no one, give ‘em hell long as I'm breathing,

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    keep kicking ass in the morning, and taking names in the evening

 

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    Leave 'em with a taste as sour as vinegar in they mouth,

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    see, they can trigger me, but they'll never figure me out.

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    Look at me now, I betcha prolly sick of me now,

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    ain't you, mama, I'm a make you look so ridiculous now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I'm sorry mama,      I never meant to hurt you,

                             F

I never meant to make you cry,

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but tonight, I'm cleaning out my closet.             (2x)

 

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2. I got some skeletons in my closet, and I don’t know if no one knows it,

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    so before they throw me inside my coffin and close it.

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    I'm a expose it, I'll take you back to '73,

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    before I ever had a multi-platinum selling CD.

 

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    I was a baby, maybe I was just a couple of months,

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    my faggot father must've had his panties up in a bunch,

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    'cause he split, I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye,

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   no I don't, on second thought, I just fucking wished he would die.

 

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    I look at Hailie, and I couldn't picture leaving her side,

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    even if I hated Kim, I grit my teeth and I try to make it work

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    with her, at least for Hailie's sake, I maybe made some mistakes,

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    but I'm only human. but I'm man enough to face them today.

 

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    What I did was stupid, no doubt it was dumb,

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    but the smartest shit I did was take the bullets outta that gun,

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    ‘cause I'd of killed ‘em, shit, I would've shot Kim and him both,

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    it's my life, I'd like to welcome ya'll to the Eminem show,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I'm sorry mama,      I never meant to hurt you,

                              F 

I never meant to make you cry,

           E                                       Am     - E

but tonight, I'm cleaning out my closet.             (2x)

 

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3. Now I would never diss my own mama just to get recognition,

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    take a second to listen for who you think this record is dissing,

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    but put yourself in my position, just try to envision,

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   witnessing your mama popping prescription pills in the kitchen.

 

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    Bitching that someone's always going through her purse and shit's missing,

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    going through public housing systems, victim of Munchausen syndrome.                         

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    My whole life I was made to believe I was sick when I wasn't,

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    'til I grew up, now I blew up it makes you sick to your stomach, doesn't it?

 

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    Wasn't it the reason you made that CD for me, ma?

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    So you could try to justify the way you treated me, ma?

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    But guess what, your getting older now, and it's cold when your lonely,

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    and Nathan's growing up so quick he's gonna know that you’re phoney.

 

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    And Hailie's getting so big now, you should see her, she's beautiful,

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    but you'll never see her, she won't even be at your funeral.

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    See what hurts me the most, is, you won't admit you was wrong,

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    bitch, do your song, keep telling yourself that you was a mom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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    But how dare you try to take what you didn't help me to get,

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    you selfish bitch, I hope you fucking burn in hell for this shit !

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    Remember when Ronnie died and you said you wished it was me?

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    Well, guess what, I am dead, dead to you as can be.

 

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I'm sorry mama,      I never meant to hurt you,

                              F

I never meant to make you cry,

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but tonight, I'm cleaning out my closet.             (2x)

 

+   Am - E    Am - E     F - E - Am - E …..     (Eminem)