Album: Recovery (2010)

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• Just gonna stand there and watch me burn?
  Well, that's alright, because I like the way it hurts
  Just gonna stand there and hear me cry?
  Well, that's alright, because I love the way you lie
  I love the way you lie
  
  I can't tell you what it really is
  I can only tell you what it feels like
  And right now, there's a steel knife in my windpipe
  I can't breathe, but I still fight while I can fight
  As long as the wrong feels right, it's like I'm in flight
  High off of love, drunk from her hate
  It's like I'm huffing paint and I love her, the more I suffer
  I suffocate and right before I'm about to drown
  She resuscitates me, she fucking hates me
  And I love it, "Wait
  Where you going?" "I'm leaving you"
  "No you ain't, come back"
  We're running right back, here we go again
  It's so insane 'cause when it's going good, it's going great
  I'm Superman, with the wind at his back, she's Lois Lane
  But when it's bad, it's awful
  I feel so ashamed, I snapped, "Who's that dude?"
  I don't even know his name, I laid hands on her
  I'll never stoop so low again, I guess I don't know my own strength
  
  Just gonna stand there and watch me burn?
  Well, that's alright, because I like the way it hurts
  Just gonna stand there and hear me cry?
  Well, that's alright, because I love the way you lie
  I love the way you lie
  I love the way you lie
  
  You ever love somebody so much you can barely breathe when you're with 'em?
  You meet, and neither one of you, even know what hit 'em
  Got that warm fuzzy feeling, yeah, them chills, used to get 'em
  Now you're getting fucking sick of looking at 'em?
  You swore you've never hit 'em, never do nothing to hurt 'em
  Now you're in each other's face
  Spewing venom in your words when you spit 'em
  You push, pull each other's hair, scratch, claw, bit 'em
  Throw 'em down, pin 'em, so lost in the moments when you're in 'em
  It's the rage that took over, it controls you both
  So they say you're best to go your separate ways
  Guess that they don't know ya 'cause today, that was yesterday
  Yesterday is over, it's a different day
  Sound like broken records playin' over
  But you promised her, next time you'll show restraint
  You don't get another chance, life is no Nintendo game
  But you lied again
  Now you get to watch her leave out the window
  Guess that's why they call it window pane
  
  Just gonna stand there and watch me burn?
  Well, that's alright, because I like the way it hurts
  Just gonna stand there and hear me cry?
  Well, that's alright, because I love the way you lie
  I love the way you lie
  I love the way you lie
  
  Now I know we said things, did things that we didn't mean
  Then we fall back into the same patterns
  Same routine, but your temper's just as bad as mine is
  You're the same as me, when it comes to love, you're just as blinded
  Baby, please come back, it wasn't you
  Baby, it was me, maybe our relationship isn't as crazy as it seems
  Maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano
  All I know is I love you too much to walk away though
  Come inside, pick up your bags off the sidewalk
  Don't you hear sincerity in my voice when I talk?
  Told you this is my fault, look me in the eyeball
  Next time I'm pissed, I'll aim my fist at the drywall
  Next time? There won't be no next time
  I apologize, even though I know it's lies
  I'm tired of the games, I just want her back, I know I'm a liar
  If she ever tries to fucking leave again
  I'm a tie her to the bed and set this house on fire
  
  Just gonna stand there and watch me burn?
  Well, that's alright, because I like the way it hurts
  Just gonna stand there and hear me cry?
  Well, that's alright, because I love the way you lie
  I love the way you lie
  I love the way you lie Writer/s: Alexander Junior Grant, Holly Brooks, Marshall Bruce Mathers
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 13

• Ainebyoona Ali from Kampala, UgandaI'm next to none in loving that song. Because it makes me thinking much about my love.
• Audrey from Lawrance, MaI love this song.
• Mathews from Lusaka, ZambiaThis was a song of 2010 of Zambia rodio's and tv it was a proof to many of my friend that Eminem is the best rapper ever, from Africa to the world Eminem hard call fans like stan.
• Hannah from Gustavus, OhI relate to this song very strongly; luckily, though, there was no physical violence involved, only a cycle of mistreatment and emotional abuse. I dated a guy I was really taken with; I'd have done anything for him. But he was completely one-sided and only cared about himself. He would do things like tell me he only wanted to be friends with me, then the next time he saw me he'd kiss me out of the blue. It was like one minute he was smitten with me and the next he couldn't care less about me. Now I talked to the girl he cheated on with me, and she told me he acted that way toward her too; as bad as I felt for her it felt good knowing I wasn't the one with problems or that wasn't good enough for him. And I put up with all this just and held on because he was extremely cute, when really I should have broken things off with him much sooner and never gone back to him.
• Anna from Seattle, WaThis song captures the cycle of violence but there are some issues about it that concern me. I will relate my own story (with some appropriate shame) but truly in the honest hope that someone might see this beginning in their relationship and get out earlier. I think its important to write it for this song because Emimen and Rihanna have such wide audience bases. My ex was extremely violent and highly intelligent (he was a mathematics teacher before the DV arrests). He got me moved to the other coast so Iwas isolated from my family. He would periodically threaten to kill me in sick sick ways. At one point I felt so defeated I attempted suicide because I felt that was the only way out that I could have some control over. I just didn't want the last thing on earth I saw to be that look on his face when he.. When I finally "woke up", he was arrested and I got a permanent protection order. Didn't mean sh*t. I tried to maintain and work but was stalked like an animal by an animal. Tampering with my car, leaving a bowl of bullets on my front doormat while I was at work. Sending msgs thru 3rd persons by say sh*t like, "aww, wouldn't it be awful if Anna accidently ran into one of my guns still in the house and accidently shot herself since she has zero fire arms experience?" Or, "....heard she's having car probs, what if she broke down in the middle of nowhere and some murderer found her" So I thought fleeing 3000 miles would do the trick. Nope, that just brought the stalking down on my mother. What "fixed" it was finding out how do the motions of serving him divorce papers without really doing it to satify the court and getting the divorce. Then, a "sealed name change" (even I can't access the record without a court order) and a new Soc. Security # (and trust me, SS has a high threshold you must meet to get a new # and its hidden from everyone, the state, the IRS, its quite amazing really) This whole thing was not about "love". This another key point: this is about power and control. My ex wanted that, and when he lost it along with his teaching license, he felt the only way to correct the universe for himself was to erase me the physical world. My issue with the song is that I and I doubt anyone else "likes the way it hurts". You just want to believe its not really happening. You file it away separately so you don't have to face the fact that there may be a pattern here. And I'm ambivilant about "love the way you lie" line. The only way I can relate to that is when a violent event is over, I really wanted to believe that he was not going to do it again, that he would get help, blah blah blah. Because (violins here ha ha) I loved him. The line that I really want to warn people about is when he says he "should have aimed [his] fist at the drywall]". No, that is a bad sign and if that happens you really need to leave. And don't come back because he says "theres no point in living without you" blah blah...these people take care of themselves first always and don't forget that. My ex's first wife did at that point, and she got stalked, but she didn't get broken bones, black eyes, trotting out the old 38 now and then, and other horrible things. See, she was smart. She knew she couldn't fix him. Obviously I couldn't have either and now I have to fix myself. But I am worth it and so are you if you see yourself going in this direction. If it goes too far, you can't go back. An extended family member's ex-daughter-in-law was beaten (badly, head just smashed) by her bf in from of my great aunts teenaged grandaughter on Christmasd Eve and they pulled the plug on her life support on Christmas day. She was afraid of him but when he came over she went outside thinking if she could just talk to him right, he would leave. I know this way to much writing but it is the cold harsh truth about the cycle of violence and I think it's important that younger (and older too) people need to know the reality. Sorry about the length.
• Caitlyn from Royersford, Padon't get me wrong, i love eminem, but it'd be nice if he could write a song that wasn't about psychopaths, celebrities, his ex kim(which is at least half of them), or how hard it is to be him and how much it sucks to be a rich successful rapper. Again, i love em, but i wish he would stop crying and just be happy for a minute...Anywho, love the song and hope it's the last we hear about kim for awhile
• Si from Auckland, New ZealandThis song goes to anyone who's been hurt by love, anyone who wonders how could something that felt so right end up so horribly wrong, anyone who wonders why love hurts, and anyone who despite all that, still can't help but to be defenseless in front that person who can just walk over you.
• Elizabeth from Anytown, Ilfestus! i totally agree! i can't just lis ten to this song once...... it is so great :-)
  
• Festus from Manchester, United KingdomI love this song, it so wounderful, i love to have it play over and over again.
• Jessica from Atlanta, GaI love this song! When I first heard it, it reminded me so much of my husband and I back n the day. I immediatly called him and told him to listen to it! We BOTH LOVE it!! Thanks for writing songs that relate so much to life!!
• Erin from Virginia Beach, Vanope i love it its awesome
• AnonymousI love this song too. Relates to a situation in my life.
• Ivy from Springfield, Neam i really the only one who loves this song/

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