Cleanin Out My Closet

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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  Have you ever been hated or discriminated against?
I have,
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  I been protested and demonstrated against
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Picket signs  for my wicked rhymes,
E7
  look at the times
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Sick is the mind of the motherfuckin' kid that's behind
           Am                        Bm7b5
All this comotion, emotions run deep as   oceans,
explodin'
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Tempers flarin' from parents,
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just blow 'em  off and keep goin'
           Fmaj7/C
Not takin' nothin' from no one,
         E7
give 'em hell long as I'm breathin'
             Am
Keep kickin' ass in the mornin' and takin' names in the
    E7
evenin'
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Leave 'em with a taste as sour as vinegar  in they mouth
              Am
See, they can trigger me,
              Bm7b5
but they'll never  figure me out
           Fmaj7/C                E7
Look at me now!   I bet you're prolly sick of me now
Ain't you,
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Mama? I'ma make you look so ridiculous now!
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I'm sorry, Mama

[Chorus]
                 Am      Bm7b5
I never meant to hurt you
                 Fmaj7/C
I never meant to make   you cry
    E7                          Am
But tonight I'm cleanin' out my closet
  E7              Am  Bm7b5
I said I'm sorry, Mama
                 Am      Bm7b5
I never meant to hurt you
                 Fmaj7/C
I never meant to make   you cry
    E7                          Am
But tonight I'm cleanin' out my closet

[Verse 2]
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  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
       Fmaj7/C
I'ma expose   it;
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I'll take you back to ‘Seventythree
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Before I ever had a multiplatinumsellin' CD
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I was a baby,
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maybe I was just a    couple of months
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My faggot father must ve had his panties up in a bunch
'Cause he split,
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       I wonder if he even kissed me goodbye
             Am
No, I don't, on second thought,
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I just fuckin' wished he would die
          Am
I look at Hailie,
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and I couldn't picture leavin' her side
        Am
Even if I hated Kim,
         Bm7b5
I'd grit my   teeth and I'd try
                Fmaj7/C                          E7
To make it work with   her at least for Hailie's sake,
I maybe made some mistakes
    Am
But I'm only human,
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but I'm man enough to face 'em today
Am
  What I did was stupid,
Bm7b5
no   doubt it was dumb
                 Am                         Bm7b5
But the smartest shit I did was take the bullets out of
that gun
            Fmaj7/C
'Cause I'da killed 'em, shit,
              E7
I woulda shot Kim and him both
It's my life,
Am                                          E7
I'd like to welcome y'all to The Eminem Show
           Am  Bm7b5
I'm sorry, Mama

[Chorus]
                 Am      Bm7b5
I never meant to hurt you
                 Fmaj7/C
I never meant to make   you cry
    E7                          Am
But tonight I'm cleanin' out my closet
  E7              Am  Bm7b5
I said I'm sorry, Mama
                 Am      Bm7b5
I never meant to hurt you
                 Fmaj7/C
I never meant to make   you cry
    E7                          Am
But tonight I'm cleanin' out my closet

[Verse 3]
Now,
E7           Am                      Bm7b5
I would never  diss my own mama just to   get recognition
         Am                             Bm7b5
Take a second to listen 'fore you think this record is
dissin'
            Fmaj7/C
But put yourself   in my position,
E7
just try to envision
           Am
Witnessin' your mama poppin' prescription pills in the
   E7
kitchen
              Am                             Bm7b5
Bitchin' that someone's always goin' through her  purse and
shit's missin'
                 Am
Goin' through public housin' systems,
       Bm7b5
victim of   Münchausen's Syndrome
              Fmaj7/C                      E7
My whole life I      was made to believe I was sick when I
wasn't
            Am
'Til I grew up, now I blew up,
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it makes you sick to your stomach,
doesn't it?
       Am                          Bm7b5
Wasn't it the reason you made that CD for me,
Ma?
             Am                     Bm7b5
So you could try to justify the way you  treated me,
Ma?
                Fmaj7/C
But guess what, you're gettin' older now,
    E7
and it's cold when you're lonely
             Am
And Nathan's growin' up so quick,
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he's gonna know that you're phony
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And Hailie's gettin' so big now, you  should see her,
she's beautiful
           Am
But you'll never see her,
           Bm7b5
she won't even  be at your funeral
See,
     Fmaj7/C                         E7
what hurts  me the most is you won't admit you was wrong
               Am
Bitch, do your song,
                                         E7
keep tellin' yourself that you was a mom!
             Am                          Bm7b5
But how dare you try to take what you didn't  help me to
get?!
            Am
You selfish bitch,
                        Bm7b5
I hope you fuckin' burn in   hell for this shit!
         Fmaj7/C                         E7
Remember when   Ronnie died and you said you wished it was
me? Well,
           Am                                E7
guess what?  I am dead dead to you as can be!
           Am  Bm7b5
I'm sorry, Mama

[Chorus]
                 Am      Bm7b5
I never meant to hurt you
                 Fmaj7/C
I never meant to make   you cry
    E7                          Am
But tonight I'm cleanin' out my closet
  E7              Am  Bm7b5
I said I'm sorry, Mama
                 Am      Bm7b5
I never meant to hurt you
                 Fmaj7/C
I never meant to make   you cry
    E7                          Am    E7
But tonight I'm cleanin' out my closet

[Outro]
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[Fade-Out]
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