The Way I Am Chords by Eminem

[Intro]
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Man whatever ■ 
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Dre just let it run
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Ayo turn the beat up a little bit
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Ayo This song is for anyone
     Am                        
Fuck it just shut up and listen


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


[Chorus]
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And I am whatever you say I am
                 Am                  
If I wasn't then why would I say I am
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In the paper the news every day I am
         Am                    
Ha radio won't even play my jam
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'cause I am whatever you say I am
                 Am                  
If I wasn't then why would I say I am
                 Am                 
In the paper the news every day I am
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Ha I don't know that's just the way I am


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


[Chorus]
         B7                   
And I am whatever you say I am
                 Am                  
If I wasn't then why would I say I am
C                A7               Am
In the paper the news every day I am
      Am                    
Radio won't even play my jam
            B                B7  
'cause I am whatever you say I am
                     Am          C   
If I wasn't then why would I say I am
                            Am      
In the paper the news every day I am
                       Abm  Am          
Ha I don't know that's just the way I am


[Verse]
                Am                    
I'm so sick and tired of bein' admired
                         Am                   
That I wish that I would just die or get fired
                          Am                        
And dropped from my label let's stop with the fables
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I'm not gonna be able to top a My Name Is
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And pigeonholed into some poppy sensation
          Am                                
To cop me rotation at rock 'n' roll stations
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And I just do not got the patience
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To deal with these cocky Caucasians who think
                                  Am                    
I'm some wigger who just tries to be Black 'cause I talk
                           Am                     
With an accent and grab on my balls so they always
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Keep askin' the same fuckin' questions
                     Am                       
What school did I go to what hood I grew up in
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The why the who what when the where and the how
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'til I'm grabbin' my hair and I'm tearin' it out
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'cause they drivin' me crazy I can't take it
               Am                      
I'm racin' I'm pacin' I stand and I sit
                     B                   
And I'm thankful for every fan that I get
                        Am                     
But I can't take a shit in the bathroom without
C                      Am                            
Someone standin' by it No I won't sign your autograph
                Am                 
You can call me an asshole I'm glad


[Chorus]
            B7                   
'cause I am whatever you say I am
                     Am              
If I wasn't then why would I say I am
C                A7               Am
In the paper the news every day I am
      A7                    
Radio won't even play my jam
            B7                   
'cause I am whatever you say I am
                     Am              
If I wasn't then why would I say I am
C                A7                 
In the paper the news every day I am
Am                                      
Ha I don't know that's just the way I am


[Outro]
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