4:02
Encore, 2004
Written by Marshall Mathers, Luis Resto, Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, & Roger Fisher
Listen for the silent E!
Over the hook from "Crazy On You," Em rap/sings about the woman he can't get enough of, when he hasn'y had enough of her. It's a love-hate relationship, and it could be about drugs, or fame, or anything else that someone is attracted to but would like to be able to walk away from. This isn't the best track on the album, and the album isn't one of Eminem's best. One of the cleverest rappers in the game and with one of the quickest tongues, his lyrics don't exactly shine here ("The only way that I am able to stay so stable / Is you're the legs to my table"). Nor is his rightfully lauded wordplay at work ("They say that every man grows up to marry his own mother / Which would explain why you're such a motherfuckin' bitch"). Eminem can be insulting and hilarious, but this song doesn't hit the mark. Sprinkling metaphors that are either flat and tired or bizarre ("you're the ink to my paper," "the reason for my existence"), he sounds kind of tired.
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