Stepping Stone Chords by Eminem

[Intro]

[Verse]
Bb C          Gm                                         
■  ■ It's two thousand and two everything was totally new
        Gm                                              
We were globally huge watchin' sales go through the roof
   Eb                         F                       
We wrote and we feuded Runyon Avenue soldiers included
  G7                                                     
A multitude of homies who would bounce for no good excuse
        Gm                                                 
We were so bulletproof wrote souped and soaked in our youth
        G7                                                   
Thought we was runnin' shit 'til we lost the sole of our shoe
Eb                                   
■  The death of Doody broke us in two
        Fsus4                              Gm             
We were thrown for a loop ain't none of us know what to do
           Gm                                           
And at the time I was goin' through my own struggles too
     Gm                                              
So I wasn't in no condition to be coachin' us through
Eb                        F                 
Everyone tried to go solo really nobody blew
      Gm                                                  
I was hopin' they do so I ain't have to shoulder the group
         Gm                                            
The plan was put everyone in position so that they knew
             Gm                                            
How to stand on they own and I don't want to open up wounds
       Eb                             F                 
I just noticed the oomf was gone when we go in the booth


[Chorus]
                 Gm                               F   Em Eb Cmaj7          
'cause the truth is the moment that Proof died so did ■  ■  the group shoot
     Eb                         
If I could leave this all behind
                            F                      
I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line
Bb          F          C  
Down to the river with you
        Eb         D7        
Help me leave this all behind
G7                    
I'ma wash away my sins
                     G7  
I'ma rinse away this dirt
                 Eb    
I forgot to make amends
           F                  G7  
To all the friends I may have hurt
                         G7   
I better stop and say my grace
                            G7  
From it I pray that I don't fall
                              Eb 
'cause on the way back down I may
               F              G7 
End up runnin' back into them all
                                                   Am
I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones ■ 


[Verse]
       Gm                                       
It was never the same and it's bothered me since
                                        G7             
And the farther we drift apart the more awkward it gets
         Eb                    F           
The more time goes by the more life happens
             Gm            G7              
And we gotta be men we got responsibilities
              Gm                                                    
Plus we don't say how we feel and I feel like this is what got us in
    G7                             Gm                 
The debacle we're in been with you guys thick and thin
         Eb                           F               
But it's almost as if sometimes we're not even friends
      Gm                                   
Which reminded me Biz Rockstar was the shit
             Gm                                  
Y'all coulda got you a hit without me on the shit
                  Gm                             
If you woulda put Dtwelve on it wish I coulda did
            Eb                             F    
More to try talkin' you into comin' up off of it
                    Gm                              
I know it wasn't my fault but part of it probably is
                                           G7     
I think of all of the trips to BET and the rappers
                      G7             
I wish that we woulda politicked with
                                       Eb           
Maybe y'all coulda clicked and got you some features
                 F               
But that's water under the bridge
        G7                            Gm                 
But I'm washin' my sins in it 'til my conscience is clear


[Chorus]
   F         Em                   
If ■ I could leave this all behind
Eb      C                   Eb                     
I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line
F                      C  
Turn to the river with you
        Eb    D7       G7    
Help me leave this all behind
                  G7  
I'ma wash away my sins
                     Bb  
I'ma rinse away this dirt
C                Bb    
I forgot to make amends
           F                  G7  
To all the friends I may have hurt
                         G7   
I better stop and say my grace
                            G7  
From it I pray that I don't fall
                              Eb 
'cause on the way back down I may
               F                 
End up runnin' back into them all
              G7 Gm                G7              Am
I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones ■ 


[Verse]
Gm                                                
Bacardi and Hen' never thought the party would end
    Gm                                                      
One minute you're bodyin' shit but then your audience splits
        Eb                           F                
You can already sense the climate is startin' to shift
         Gm                      
To these kids you no longer exist
                           Gm                
Went from rainin' cats and dogs in this bitch
Gm                        
To tiny drops little drips
           G7                                             
And by the time your reign is over you'll hardly be missed
Eb                        F                              Gm              
You start thinkin' of all the artists you dissed all the carnage you left
Gm                             
Is this the kinda karma you get
    Gm                                                 
For turnin' your fuckin' back on Bizzy Kuniva and Swift
  Gm                                            
A Freudian slip subconsciously I honestly wished
        Eb                                  F                
I ain't feel so much guilt and y'all didn't harbor resentment
         G7                                               
But it's hard to pretend that y'all ain't got none of this


[Chorus]
           G7   
Wish I had words
                         Gm7              
But I guess they're just are none for this
      G7                                 
To my partners I can't say how sorry I am
        Eb                        F           
This is not how I planned for our story to end
       Gm7           
I love all of you men
Gm7                        
But I just can't be the guy
Gm7                                    
Everybody depends on for entire careers
              G7           
'cause that's not even fair
                               Gm7              
I will always be here but that spark isn't there
    Eb           F                     G7               
And I don't know how to recapture that time and that era
                                         Gm              
I've tried hearkenin' back to it but I'm fightin' for air
           G7             
I'm barely chartin' myself


[Bridge]
               G7                                     
Feels like I'm on the descent but it was not my intent
         Eb                         
To treat y'all like a stepping stone
F                                
Though I ain't left no one behind
Gm                                                  
But we been down every road done all we possibly can
Gm                         
I know we kept our hopes up
        Gm                                          
But the longer we spend livin' this lie that we live
            Eb                        F          
The less is left for closure so let's let this go
                 Gm                                   
It's not goodbye to our friendship but Dtwelve is over
                  Gm  
I'ma wash away my sins
Eb                   Bb  
I'ma rinse away this dirt
                 Eb    
I forgot to make amends
           F                  Gm  
To all the friends I may have hurt


[Chorus]
         G7                   
I better stop and say my grace
                            Gm  
From it I pray that I don't fall
                              Eb 
'cause on the way back down I may
               F                 
End up runnin' back into them all
                 Gm                G7             
I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones


[Outro]
                                       G7             
I never meant to make you feel like my stepping stones
                                    G7             
I never meant to use you all for my stepping stones


[End]