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Eminem Lyrics for Song: Yellow Brick Road
 Lyrics for Album: Encore [2004]
 
 
 
 31590>Intro:
 
 what we have to do is deal with it when these individuals are young enough
 
 if you want to be saved not in a religious sense
 
 but we have to constitue what this country at times calls its only children
 
 we seem to be approaching(come on) an age of the gross (burp)
 
 we all have this idea that we should move up a little bit from our parents station and each generation should a little better
 
 
 
 Verse 1:
 
 Alright come on lets cut this bullshit, enough
 
 Let's get it started let's start addressin this issue and open it up
 
 Let's take this shit back to the basement and we can discuss statements Thats made on this tape and its whole origin of
 
 The music that we all know and love the music we all enjoy
 
 The music that you accuse me of tryin' destroy
 
 Let's rewind it to '89 when i was boy
 
 On the East Side of Detroit crossin' 8 mile into Warren
 
 Into hick territory. Id like to share a story
 
 This is my story and cant nobody tell it for me
 
 You have well informed me I am well aware that I dont belong here
 
 You made that perfectly clear
 
 I get my ass kicked damn near everywhere
 
 From Bel-Air Shoppin' Centre just for stoppin in there
 
 From the black side all the way to the white side
 
 Okay theres a bright side, a day that i might slide
 
 You may call it a pass i call it haulin' my ass
 
 Through that patch of grass
 
 Over them railroad tracks
 
 Oh them railroad tracks
 
 Them old railroad tracks
 
 Them good old notorious so well known tracks.
 
 
 
 Chorus:
 
 So let's go back follow the yellow brick road
 
 As we go on another episode
 
 Journey with me as i take you through this nifty little place
 
 That i once used to call home sweet home
 
 Come on lets go back follow the yellow brick road
 
 As we go on another episode
 
 Journey with me as i take you through this nifty little place
 
 That i once used to call home sweet home
 
 
 
 Bridge:
 
 I'd roam the streets so much they call me a drifter
 
 Sometimes i stick up a thumb just to hitchhike
 
 Just to get picked up to get me a lift ta
 
 8 Mile and Van Dyke or steal a goddamn bike
 
 From somebody's backyard and drop it off at the park
 
 That was the halfway mark
 
 To meet Kim had to walk
 
 Back to her mamma's on Chalmers after dark
 
 To sneak me in the house when im kicked out my mom's
 
 That's about the time, I first met Proof with Goofy Gary on the steps at Osbourne handing out some flyers
 
 We was doin' some talent shows at Centerline High
 
 I told him to stop by and check us out sometime
 
 He looked at me like im out my mind
 
 Shook his head like white boys dont know how to rhyme
 
 I spit out a line and rhymed birthday with first place
 
 And we both had the same rhymes that sound alike
 
 We was on that same shit that Big Daddy Kane shit where compound syllables sound combined
 
 From that day we was down to ride
 
 Somehow we knew we'd meet again somewhere down the line
 
 
 
 Chorus:
 
 So lets go back follow the yellow brick road
 
 As we go on another episode
 
 Journey with me as i take you through this nifty little place
 
 That i once used to call home sweet home
 
 Come on lets go back follow the yellow brick road
 
 As we go on another episode
 
 Journey with me as i take you through this nifty little place
 
 That i once used to call home sweet home
 
 
 
 Verse 2:
 
 My first year in 9th grade, cant forget that day in school
 
 it was cool to your man MC Shan came through
 
 And said that Puma's the brand cause the Klan makes troops
 
 It was rumours but man goddamn they flew
 
 musta been true becuae man we done banned they shoes
 
 I had the new ones the Cool J, Ice lambs suede too
 
 but we just threw em' in the trash like they yesterday's news
 
 Guess who came through next? X-Clan debuted
 
 Professor X "Vanglorious, exist in a state of red, black and green with a key, sissies"
 
 now with this being the new trend we don't fit in
 
 crackas is out with Cactus albums blackness is in
 
 African symbols and medallions represents black power and we ain't know what it meant
 
 Me and my man Howard and Butter would go to the mall
 
 With 'em all over our necks like we're showin 'em off
 
 not knowin at all we was bein laughed at
 
 You ain't even half black you ain't supposed to have that homie let me grab that
 
 And that Flava Flav clock we gonna have to snatch that
 
 All I remember is meetin back at
 
 Manix's basement sayin how we hate this
 
 How racist but dope the X-Clan's tape is
 
 Which reminds me back in '89 me
 
 And Kim broke up for the first time She was tryin' to two-time me
 
 And there was this black girl at our school who thought I was cool
 
 cuz I rapped, so she was kinda eyein' me
 
 And oh the irony, guess what her name was?
 
 Ain't even gonna say it plus
 
 The same color hair as hers was and blue contacts
 
 And a pair of jugs the bombest goddamn
 
 Girl in our whole school
 
 If I could pull her not only would I become more popular
 
 But I would be able to piss Kim off at the
 
 Same time but it backfired, I was supposed to dump her but she dumped me for this black guy
 
 And that's the last I ever seen or heard or spoke
 
 to the Ole' foolish pride girl but I've heard
 
 people say they heard the tape and it ain't that bad
 
 But it was, I singled out a whole race
 
 And for that apologize, I was wrong
 
 cause no matter what color a girl is she still a...
 
 
 
 Chorus:
 
 So lets go back follow the yellow brick road
 
 As we go on another episode
 
 Journey with me as i take you through this nifty little place
 
 That i once used to call home sweet home
 
 Come on lets go back
 
 Follow the yellow brick road
 
 As we go on another episode
 
 Journey with me as i take you through this nifty little place
 
 That i once used to call home sweet home.
 
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