Eminem、Proof - The Way I Am (Live From Fuji Rock Festival, Japan 2001

Written by：Marshall Mathers

Composed by：Marshall Mathers

'Cause I am whatever you say I am

If I wasn't then why would I say I am

In the paper the news every day 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 every day I am

I don't know that's just the way I am

'Cause I am whatever you say I am

If I wasn't then why would I say I am

In the paper the news every day 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 every day I am

I don't know that's just the way I am

I sit back with this pack of Zig-Zag's and this bag

Of this w**d it gives me the s**t needed to be

The most meanest MC on this on this Earth

And since birth I've been cursed with this curse to just curse

And just blurt this berserk and bizarre s**t 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

Peacefully 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

To not come and speak to me

I don't know you

And no I don't owe you a motherf**kin' 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

Is on empty

No patience is in me and if you offend me

I'm liftin' you ten feet

In the air

I don't care who was there and who saw me just jaw 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 it's 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 every day 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 every day I am

I don't know that'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 f**k when you won't just put up

With the bulls**t they pull 'cause they full of s**t too

When a dude's gettin' bullied and shoots up his school

And they blame it on Marilyn

On Marilyn

And the h****n

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 This happenin'

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 every day 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 every day I am

I don't know that's just the way I am