Like Toy Soldiers-Eminem

[ti:Like Toy Soldiers] [ar:Eminem] [al:Like Toy Soldiers] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Like Toy Soldiers - Eminem [00:00.20]Composed by：Marshall Mathers/Luis Resto/Michael Jay/Martika [00:00.67]Step by step heart to heart [00:03.42]Left right left we all fall down [00:09.20]Step by step heart to heart [00:12.16]Left right left we all fall down [00:17.15]Like toy soldiers [00:20.98]Bit by bit torn apart [00:23.71]We never win but the battle wages on [00:28.87]For toy soldiers [00:32.47]I'm supposed to be the soldier who never blows his composure [00:35.50]Even though I hold the weight of the whole world on my shoulders [00:38.12]I ain't never supposed to show it [00:39.86]My crew ain't supposed to know it [00:41.27]Even if it means goin' toe-to-toe with a Benzino [00:43.87]It don't matter I never drag 'em in battles that I can't handle [00:46.97]'Less I absolutely have to I'm supposed to set an example [00:50.15]I need to be the leader my crew looks for me to guide 'em [00:53.11]If some **** ever does pop off I'm supposed to be beside 'em [00:55.85]That Ja **** I tried to squash it it was too late to stop it [00:59.11]There's a certain line you just don't cross and he crossed it [01:01.95]I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it [01:04.61]It was crazy the **** went way beyond some JAY-Z and Nas **** [01:07.83]And even though the battle was won I feel like we lost it [01:10.42]I spent so much energy on it honestly I'm exhausted [01:13.49]And I'm so caught in it I almost feel I'm the one who caused it [01:16.52]This ain't what I'm in hip-hop for it's not why I got in it [01:19.53]That was never my object for someone to get killed [01:22.37]Why would I wanna destroy somethin' I helped build [01:25.23]It wasn't my intentions my intentions were good [01:28.21]I went through my whole career without ever mentionin' **** [01:31.07]And that was just outta respect for not runnin' my mouth [01:34.12]And talkin' about somethin' that I knew nothin' about [01:36.79]Plus Dre told me stay out this just wasn't my beef [01:39.78]So I did I just fell back watched and gritted my teeth [01:42.73]While he's all over TV down-talkin' the man [01:45.73]Who literally saved my life like **** it I understand [01:48.52]This is business and this **** just isn't none of my business [01:51.72]But still knowin' the **** could pop off at any minute 'cause [01:54.95]Step by step heart to heart [01:57.84]Left right left we all fall down [02:02.80]Like toy soldiers [02:06.64]Bit by bit torn apart [02:09.46]We never win but the battle wages on [02:14.27]For toy soldiers [02:18.21]There used to be a time when you could just say a rhyme and [02:20.83]Wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dyin' [02:23.93]But now it's elevated 'cause once you put someone's kids in it [02:27.01]The **** gets escalated it ain't just words no more is it [02:29.67]It's a different ballgame you call names and you ain't just rappin' [02:32.81]We actually tried to stop the 50 and Ja beef from happenin' [02:35.90]Me and Dre had sat with him kicked it and had a chat with him [02:38.72]And asked him not to start it he wasn't gonna go after him [02:41.64]Until Ja started yappin' in magazines how he stabbed him [02:44.72]**** it 50 smash him Mash on him let him have it [02:47.59]Meanwhile my attention's pulled in another direction [02:50.21]Some receptionist at The Source who answers phones at his desk [02:52.98]Has an erection for me and thinks that I'll be his resurrection [02:56.40]Tries to blow the dust off his mic and make a new record [02:59.17]But now he's ****** the game up 'cause one of the ways I came up [03:02.19]Was through that publication the same one that made me famous [03:04.97]Now the owner of it has got a grudge against me for nothin' [03:08.02]Well **** it that ************ could get it too **** him then [03:11.00]But I'm so busy bein' pissed off I don't stop to think [03:13.75]That we've just inherited 50's beef with Murder Inc. [03:16.66]And he's inherited mine which is fine ain't like either of us mind [03:20.32]We still have soldiers that's on the front line [03:22.48]Who's willin' to die for us as soon as we give the orders [03:25.77]Never to extort us strictly to show they support us [03:28.54]And maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus [03:31.38]To show 'em we love 'em back and let 'em know how important [03:34.11]It is to have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners [03:37.37]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 or murdered [03:43.06]It ain't worth it I can't think of a perfecter way to word it [03:45.98]Than to just say that I love y'all too much to see the verdict [03:48.98]I'll walk away from it all 'fore I let it go any further [03:52.18]But don't get it twisted it's not a plea that I'm coppin' [03:54.78]I'm just willin' to be the bigger man if y'all can quit poppin' [03:57.65]Off at the jaws well then I can 'cause frankly I'm sick of talkin' [04:00.71]I'm not gonna let someone else's coffin rest on my conscience [04:03.75]'Cause [04:04.23]Step by step heart to heart [04:06.87]Left right left we all fall down [04:11.88]Like toy soldiers [04:15.70]Bit by bit torn apart [04:18.54]We never win but the battle wages on [04:23.43]For toy soldiers