[ti:Survival]
[ar:Eminem]
[al:The Marshall Mathers LP 2]
[00:00.42]Survival - Eminem
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[00:07.14]This is survival of the fittest
[00:13.09]This is do or die
[00:18.53]This is the winner takes it all
[00:23.03]So take it all
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[00:29.15]Wasn  t ready to be no millionaire,
[00:30.77]I was ill-prepared
[00:32.28]I was prepared to be ill though,
[00:34.22]the skill was there
[00:34.90]From the beginning, it wasn  t   bout the ends
[00:36.86]It was   bout busting raps
[00:37.90]and standing for something, fuck an acronym
[00:39.97]Cut the fucking act like you  re happy,
[00:41.60]I  m fucking back again
[00:42.72]With another anthem, why stop
[00:43.97]when it doesn  t have to end?
[00:45.46]It ain  t over   til I say it  s over
[00:47.16]enough when I say enough
[00:48.35]Throw me to the wolves and close the gate up
[00:50.47]I  m afraid of what  ll happen to them wolves
[00:52.29]When the thought of being thrown
[00:53.65]into an alligator pit, I salivate at it
[00:55.71]Weight is up, hands up like it  s 12 noon, nah, homie
[00:58.78]Hold them bitches straighter up,
[01:00.03]wave   em   til you dislocate a rotator cuff
[01:01.77]Came up rough, came to ruffle feathers, nah, egos
[01:04.28]I ain  t deflate enough,
[01:05.67]last chance to make this whole stadium erupt
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[01:07.67]This is survival of the fittest
[01:12.92]This is do or die
[01:18.29]This is the winner takes it all
[01:23.17]So take it all
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[01:28.93]I can see the finish line with each line that I finish
[01:31.12]I  m so close to my goals
[01:32.55]I can almost pole vault over the goal post
[01:35.18]And if I don  t got enough in the tank,
[01:37.48]maybe I can just siphon enough
[01:38.92]To fill up this last can,
[01:40.42]man will I survive in this climate or what?
[01:42.48]They said I was washed up, and got a blood bath
[01:44.79]I  m not a rapper, I  m an adapter, I can adjust
[01:47.23]Plus I can just walk up to a mic and just bust
[01:50.17]So floor  s open if you  d like to discuss
[01:52.11]Top 5 in this mothafucka and if I don  t make the cut
[01:54.92]What, like I give a fuck,
[01:56.13]I  ma light this bitch up like I  m driving a truck
[01:58.21]To the side of a pump, 0 to 60 hop in and gun it
[02:01.20]Like G-Unit without the hyphen, I  m hyping   em up
[02:03.57]And if there should ever come a time where my life  s in a rut
[02:06.51]And I look like I might just give up, eh you might  ve mistook
[02:08.95]Me for bowing out I ain  t taking a bow, I  m stabbing myself
[02:11.91]With a fucking knife in the gut, while I  m wiping my butt!
[02:14.46]Cause I just shitted on the mic, and I like getting cut
[02:17.16]I get excited at the sight of my blood, you  re in a fight with a nut
[02:20.28]Cause I  ma fight   til I die or win
[02:21.84]Biting the dust it  ll just make me angrier, wait
[02:24.20]Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting
[02:28.01]Now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, slut
[02:30.51]It  s survival of what?
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[02:32.07]This is survival of the fittest
[02:36.10]This is do or die
[02:41.47]This is the winner takes it all
[02:46.21]So take it all
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[02:51.53]
[02:58.30]So get your ideas, stack your ammo
[03:00.61]But don  t come unless you come to battle,
[03:02.17]I  m mad now jump in the saddle
[03:03.55]This is it, it  s what you eat, sleep, piss and shit
[03:06.17]Live, breathe, your whole existence just consists of this
[03:08.73]Refuse to quit, fuse is lit, can  t diffuse the wick
[03:10.98]I don  t do this music shit, I lose my shit
[03:14.05]Ain  t got shit to lose, it  s the moment of truth
[03:16.05]It  s all I know how to do,
[03:17.36]as soon as I get thrown in the booth, I spit
[03:19.42]But my respect is overdue, I  m showing you the flow no one do
[03:22.80]Cause I don  t own no diploma for school, I quit!
[03:24.99]So there  s nothing for me to fall back on, I know no other trades
[03:27.86]So you  d better trade your fucking mics in for some tool-box-es
[03:29.99]Cause you  ll never take my pride from me
[03:32.24]It  ll have to be pried from me,
[03:33.49]so pull out your pliers and your screw-drivers
[03:35.49]But I want you to doubt me, I don  t want you to buh-lieve
[03:38.69]Cause this is something that I must use to suc-ceed
[03:41.69]And if you don  t like me then fuck you!
[03:43.56]Self es-teem must be fucking shooting through-the-roof cause trust me
[03:47.00]My skin is too thick and bul-let proof to touch me
[03:49.76]I can see why the fuck I disgust you
[03:51.38]I must be a-llergic to failure cause every time I come close to it
[03:55.25]I just sneeze, but I just go atchoo then achieve!
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[03:58.13]This is survival of the fittest
[04:03.25]This is do or die
[04:08.63]This is the winner takes it all
[04:13.57]So take it all
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