The Way I Am (Danny Lohner Remix)

Dre just let it run
Aaoo turn the beat up a little bit
Aaoo, this song is for anyone, fuck it
Just shut up and listen, aaoo

I sit back with this pack of Zig Zags and this bag of this weed
It gives me the shit needed to be
The most meanest MC on this Earth
And since birth I've been cursed
With this curse to just curse (fuck, fuck)
And just blurt this berserk and bizarre shit that works
And it sells and it helps in itself
To relieve all this tension dispensin' these sentences
Gettin' this stress that's been eatin' me recently off of this chest
And I rest again peacefully
But at least have the decency in you
To leave me alone when you freaks see me out
In the streets when I'm eatin' or feedin' my daughter
Do not come and speak to me
I don't know you and no I don't owe you a motherfuckin' thing
I'm not Mr N'Sync, I'm not what your friends think
I'm not Mr Friendly, I can be a prick
If you tempt me my tank is on empty
No patience is in me and if you offend me
I'm liftin' you 10 feet, in the air
I don't care who is there and who saw me destroy you
Go call you a lawyer, file you a lawsuit
I'll smile in the courtroom and buy you a wardrobe
I'm tired of all you, I don't mean to be mean
But that's all I can be is just me

And I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the paper, the news everyday I am
Radio won't even play my jam
Cause I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the paper, the news everyday I am
I don't know it's just the way I am

Sometimes I just feel like my father
I hate to be bothered with all of this nonsense
It's constant and oh, it's his lyrical content
The song Guilty Conscience has gotten such rotten responses
And all of this controversy circles me
And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me
So I point one back at 'em, but not the index or pinkie
Or the ring or the thumb, it's the one you put up
When you don't give a fuck, when you won't just put up
With the bullshit they pull, 'cause they full of shit too
When a dude's gettin' bullied and shoots up school
And they blame it on Marilyn (waah) and the heroin
Where were the parents at?
And look where it's at, Middle America, now it's a tragedy
Now it's so sad to see, an upper class city
Havin' this happenin', then attack Eminem cause I rap this way
But I'm glad cause they feed me the fuel that I need for the fire
To burn and it's burnin' and I have returned

And I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the paper, the news everyday I am
Radio won't even play my jam
Cause I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the paper, the news everyday I am
I don't know it's just the way I am

I'm so sick and tired of being admired
That I wish that I would just die or get fired
And dropped from my label and stop with the fables
I'm not gonna be able to top on My Name is
I'm pigeon holed into some poppy sensation
To cop me rotation at rock'n'roll stations
And I just do not got the patience
To deal with these cocky Caucasians
Who think I'm some wigger who just tries to be black
Cause I talk with an accent, and grab on my balls
So they always keep askin' the same fuckin' questions
What school did I go to, what hood I grew up in
The why, the who, what, when, the where, and the how
'Til I'm grabbin' my hair and I'm tearin' it out
'Cause they drivin' me crazy, I can't take it
I'm racin', I'm pacin', I stand and I sit
And I'm thankful for every fan that I get
But I can't take a shit in the bathroom
Without someone standin' by it
No I won't sign your autograph
You can call me an asshole I'm glad

And I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the papers, the news everyday I am
Radio won't even play my jam
Cause I am, whatever you say I am
If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?
In the paper, the news everyday I am
I don't know it's just the way I am (I am, I am)

Hey, hey, I don't know it's just the way I am
Hey, hey, hey, hey, radio won't even play my jam, waah

Cause I am, whatever you say I am (hey, hey)
Cause I am, whatever you say I am (hey, hey)
Cause I am, whatever you say I am (hey, hey)
Radio won't even play my jam, waah
Cause I am, whatever you say I am
Cause I am, whatever you say I am
Cause I am, whatever you say...

Available On:

The Marshall Mathers LP [Eminem]

Song Credits:

Remixed by Danny Lohner
Length: 4:59

Notes:

Marilyn Manson also appeared on stage with Eminem on the 30th of January 2001 in Hamburg, Germany to perform the original version of The Way I Am.