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Toy soldiers (EMINEM)

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  2. Step by step, heart to heart
  3. Left right left, we all fall down like toy soldiers
  4. Bit by bit, torn apart
  5. We never win, but the battle wages on for toy soldiers
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  8. I'm supposed to be the soldier, who never blows his composure
  9. Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders
  10. I ain't never supposed to show it, my crew ain't supposed to know it
  11. Even if it means going toe to toe with a Benzino
  12. It don't matter I'd never drag them in battles that I can handle
  13. 'less I absolutely have to, I'm supposed to set an example
  14. I need to be the leader, my crew looks for me to guide 'em
  15. If some shit ever does pop off, I'm supposed to be beside 'em
  16. That Ja shit, I tried to squash it, it was too late to stop it
  17. There's a certain line you just don't cross and he crossed it
  18. I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it
  19. It was crazy, the shit went way beyond some Jay Z and Nas shit
  20. And even though the battle is won I feel like we lost it
  21. I spent so much energy on it, honestly I'm exhausted
  22. And I'm so caught in it, I almost feel I'm the one who caused it
  23. This ain't what I'm in hip hop for, it's not why I got in it
  24. That was never my object, for someone to get killed
  25. Why would I want to destroy something I helped build?
  26. It wasn't my intentions, my intentions were good
  27. I went through my whole career without ever mentioning *Suge*
  28. And that was just outta respect, for not running my mouth
  29. And talking about something that I knew nothing about
  30. Plus Dre told me stay out, this just wasn't my beef
  31. So I did, I just fell back, watched and gritted my teeth
  32. While he's all over TV, down talking the man
  33. Who literally saved my life, like fuck it I understand
  34. This is business, and this shit just isn't none of my business
  35. I'm still knowing this shit could pop off at any minute, because
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  38. There used to be a time when, you could just say a rhyme and
  39. Wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dying
  40. But now it's elevated, cause once you put someone's kids in it
  41. The shit gets escalated, it ain't just words no more is it?
  42. It's a different ball game, you call names and you ain't just rapping
  43. We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happening
  44. Me and Dre had sat with him, kicked it and had a chat with him
  45. And asked him not to start it, he wasn't going to go after him
  46. Until Ja started yapping in magazines how he stabbed him
  47. Fuck it, 50 smash him, mash him and let him have it
  48. Meanwhile my attention's pulled in another direction
  49. Some receptionist at the Source who answers phones at his desk
  50. Has an erection for me and thinks that I'll be his resurrection
  51. Tries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record
  52. But now he's fucked the game up, cause one of the ways I came up
  53. Was through that publication, the same one that made me famous
  54. Now the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothing?
  55. Well fuck it, that mothafucka could get it too, fuck him then
  56. But I'm so busy being pissed off, I don't stop to think
  57. That we just inherited 50's beef with Murder Inc
  58. And he's inherited mine, which is fine, ain't like either of us mind
  59. We still have soldiers that's on the front line
  60. That's willing to die for us as soon as we give the orders
  61. Never to extort us, strictly to show they support us
  62. And maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in the chorus
  63. To show 'em we love 'em back and let them know how important it is
  64. To have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners
  65. Their loyalty to us is worth more than any award is
  66. But I ain't tryna have none of people hurt or murdered
  67. It ain't worth it, I can't think of a perfecter way to word it
  68. Than to just say that I love y'all too much to see the verdict
  69. I'll walk away from it all 'fore I let it go any further
  70. But don't get it twisted, it's not a plea that I'm copping
  71. I'm just willing to be the bigger man if y'all can quit popping
  72. Off at your jaws well then I can, cause frankly I'm sick of talking
  73. I'm not going to let someone else's coffin rest on my conscience cause

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