Yellow Brick Road Lyrics

Yellow Brick Road lyrics

[Intro]
What we have to do is deal with it when these idividuals are young
enough. If you wish to be saved, not in a religious sense but not to constitute
what this country at times calls if or which over. We seem to be approaching an
age of the gross. We all have this idea that we should move up from our parents
station and each generation should do a little bit better.

[Verse 1-
Eminem]
Come on, let's cut the bullshit enough
Let's get it started,
let's start addressing this issue and open it up
Let's take this shit back
to bassmint
And we can disscuss statements thats made on this tape
And
its whole origin of the music that we all know and love
The music that we
all enjoy the music you all accuse me of tryna destroy
Let's rewind it to 89
when I was a boy on the east side of Detroit
Crossin 8 Mile in the border in
the hate territory
I'd like to share a story, this is my story and cant no
body tell it for me
You will well inform me, I am well aware that I don't
belong here
You've made that perfectly clear, I get my ass kicked damn near
everywhere
From Bel-Air shopping center just for stopping in there
From
the black side all the way to the white side
Okay there's a bright side a
day that I might slide
You may call it a past I call it haulin my
ass
Through that patch of grass over them railroad tracks
Oh them
railroad tracks, them old railroad tracks
Them good old notorious oh well
known tracks

[Chorus x2]
Come on lets go back
Follow the yellow
brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take you through
this nifty little place
I once used to call home sweet home

[Verse 2-
Eminem]
I roam the streets so much they call me a drifter
Sometimes I
stick up a thumb just to hitch hike
Just to get picked up to get me a lift
to 8 mile and van dike
And steal a god damn bike from somebody's
backyard
And drop it off at the park that was the half way mark
To meet
Kim had to walk back to her mama's them dramas after dark
To sneak me in the
house when I'm kicked out my mom's
Thats about the time I first met Proof
when poof he'd carry on the set
Set eyes born in and out some flyers, he was
doin some talent shows
At center line, I had told him to stop by and check
this out sometime
He looked at me like I'm out my mind shook his head like
white boys dont know how to rhyme
I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with
first place
And we both had the same rhymes that sound alike
We was on the
same shit that Big Daddy Kane shit with compound syllables sound
combined
From that day we was down to ride somehow we knew we'd meet again
somewhere down the line

[Chorus x2]
Come on lets go back
Follow
the yellow brick road as we go on another episode
Journey with me as I take
you through this nifty little place
I once used to call home sweet
home

[Verse 3- Eminem]
My first year in 9th grade, can't forget that
day at school
It was cool till your man MC Sham came through
And said
that Boom was the brain cuz the clan makes troops
It was rumors but man god
damned they flew
Musta been true because man we done banned they shoes
I
had the new ones the Cool J, Ice land swayed too
And we just through them in
the trash like they yesterday's news
Guess who came through next, X clam
debut
Professor X and glorious exists in a state of red, black, and
green
With a key sissies now with this bein a new trend
We don't fit in
crackas is out with Cactus albums
Blackness is in, African symbols and
medallions
Represents black power and we ain't know what it meant
Me and
my man Howard and ??? would go to the mall with 'em
All over our necks like
we're showin 'em off not knowin at all
We was bein laughed at you ain't even
half black
You ain't supposed to have that homie let me grab that
And that
Flavor Flave clock we gon' have to snatch that
All I remember is meetin back
at Manix's basement
Sayin how we hate this, our races wit dope the x clan
take this
Which reminds me back in 89 me and Kim broke up for the first
time
She was tryna two time me and there was this black girl
At our
school who thought I was cool cuz I rapped so she was kinda eyein me
And oh
the irony guess what her name was ain't even gon' say it plus
The same color
hair as hers was and blue contacts and a pair of jugs
The bombest god damn
girl in our whole school if I could pull it
Not only would I become more
popular but I would be able to piss Kim off at the same time
But it
backfired I was supposed to dump her but she dumped me for this black
guy
And thats the last I ever seen or heard or spoke to the oh foolish pride
girl
But I've heard people say they heard the tape and it ain't that
bad
But it was I singled out a whole race and for that apologize
I was
wrong cuz no matter what color a girl is she still a [bitch?]

[Chorus
x2]
Come on lets go back
Follow the yellow brick road as we go on another
episode
Journey with me as I take you through this nifty little place
I
once used to call home sweet home