Brainless

Album: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)
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  • Or Eminem has a full line of chainsaws
    Eminem, Eminem, Eminem, Eminem, Eminem, Eminem
    Marshall Mathers, Eminem, the rapper, Eminem
    Who can say for sure?
    Perhaps a frontal lobotomy would be the answer
    If science can operate on this distorted brain and put it to good use
    Society will reap a great benefit

    I walk around like a space cadet, place your bets
    Who's likely to become a serial killer? Case of Tourette's
    Fuck, fuck, fuck, can't take the stress
    I make a mess as the day progresses
    Angry and take it out on the neighbor's hedges
    Like this is how I'll cut your face up bitches
    With these hedge-trimming scissors with razor edges
    Imagination's dangerous, it's the only way to escape this mess
    And make the best of this situation, I guess
    'Cause I feel like a little bitch, this predicament's despicable
    I'm sick of just getting pushed, it's ridiculous
    I look like a freaking wuss, a pussy
    This kid just took my stick of licorice
    And threw my sticker books in a picker bush
    I wanna kick his tush, but I was six and shook
    This fucker was twelve and was six foot, with a vicious hook
    He hit me, I fell, I got back up, all I did was book
    Now there's using your head

    Mama always said, "If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous
    A brain you'd be dangerous" (I'ma prove you wrong)
    Mama, I'ma grow one day to be famous
    And I'ma be a pain in the anus (I'ma be the bomb)
    I'ma use my head as a weapon
    Find a way to escape this insaneness
    Mama always said, "Son, If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous"
    Guess it pays to be brainless

    Fast forward some years later
    A teenager, this is fun, sweet
    I just got jumped twice in one week, it's complete
    It's usually once a month, this is some feat I've accomplished
    They've stomped me into the mud, gee for what reason? You stumped me
    But how do you get the shit beat out of you, beat down and be upbeat
    When you don't have nothing?
    No valid shot at life, chance To make it or succeed
    'Cause you're doomed from the start
    It's like you grew up on Jump Street, from jump street
    But if I had just get my head out my ass
    I could accomplish any task
    Practicing trash talking in a trance
    Locked in my room, yeah, but I got some plans, mama
    These damn rhymes are falling out of my pants pocket, I can't stop it
    And I'm starting to blend in more, school this shit helps for sure
    I'm getting more self-assured than I've ever been before
    Plus no one picks on me anymore, I done put a stop to that
    Threw my first punch, end of story
    Still, in my skulls a vacant, empty void
    Been using it more as a bin for storage
    Take some inventory, in this gourd there's a Ford engine door hinge
    Syringe, an orange, an extension cord and a Ninja sword
    Not to mention, four linchpins, an astringent stored
    Ironing board, a bench, a wrench, a ore winch, an attention whore
    Everything but a brain, but dome's off the fucking chain
    Like an independent store, something's wrong with my head
    Just think if I had a brain in it, thank God that I don't
    'Cause I'd probably be Dahmer

    'Cause mama always said, "If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous
    A brain you'd be dangerous" (I'ma prove you wrong)
    Mama, I'ma grow one day to be famous
    And I'ma be a pain in the anus (I'ma be the bomb)
    I'ma use my head as a weapon
    Find a way to escape this insaneness
    Mama always said, "Son, If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous"
    Guess it pays to be brainless

    Now my mum goes, "Womp, womp, womp"
    'Cause I'm not that smart but I'm not dumb
    I was on the bottom of the pile, getting stomped
    But somehow, I came out on top

    I told you one day
    I said they'd have that red carpet rolled out, yo
    I'm nice, y'all, fuck it I'm out cold
    Now everywhere I go, they scream out, "Go"
    I'm 'bout to clean house, yo
    I'm Lysol, now I'm just household
    Outsold the sell outs, freak the hell out
    Middle America, hear 'em yell out in terror
    They were so scared, and those kids
    Just about, belted out
    Whatever spouted or fell out
    My smart aleck mouth, it was so weird
    Inappropriate, so be it, I don't see it
    Maybe one day when the smoke clears, it won't be as
    Motherfuckin' difficult, ch'yeah, 'til then
    Hopefully you little homos get over your fears and phobias
    It's okay to be scared straight, they said I provoke queers
    Til emotions evoke tears, my whole career's a stroke of sheer genius
    Smoke and mirrors, tactical, practical jokes, yeah
    You motherfuckin' (insert insult here)
    Who the fuck would've thunk that one little lone MC
    Would be able to take the whole culture and re-upholstery it?
    And boy, they did flock
    Can't believe this little hick locked
    This hip-hop shit in his hip pocket and still the shit got
    That white-trash traffic in gridlock
    Shit hoppin' like six blocks from a Kid Rock
    Insane Clown Posse concert in mid October
    And God forbid I see a wizard and get a brain in my titanium cranium, y'all
    'Cause I'll turn into the Unabomber

    Mama always said, "If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous
    A brain you'd be dangerous" (I'ma prove you wrong)
    Mama, I'ma grow one day to be famous
    And I'ma be a pain in the anus (I'ma be the bomb)
    I'ma use my head as a weapon
    Find a way to escape this insaneness
    Mama always said, "Son, If you had a brain, you'd be dangerous"
    Guess it pays to be brainless

    Insaneness ain't even a word, you stupid fuck
    Neither is ain't Writer/s: Luis Resto, Marshall Mathers
    Publisher: ME GUSTA MUSIC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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