"Brain Damage" Lyrics
Eminem
- [Doctor] Scalpel
- [Nurse] Here
- [Doctor] Sponge
- [Nurse] Here
- [Doctor] Wait.. he's convulsing, he's convulsing!
- [Nurse] Ah!
- [Doctor] We're gonna have to shock him!
- [Nurse] Oh my! Oh my God!
- [Doctor] We're gonna have to shock him!
- [Nurse] Oh my God!
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- [Eminem]
- These are the results of a thousand electric volts
- A neck with bolts, "Nurse we're losin him, check the pulse!"
- A kid who refused to respect adults
- Wore spectacles with taped frames and a freckled nose
- A corny lookin white boy, scrawny and always ornery
- Cause I was always sick of brawny bullies pickin on me
- And I might snap, one day just like that
- I decided to strike back and flatten every tire on the bike rack
- (Whosssssh) My first day in junior high, this kid said,
- "It's you and I, three o'clock sharp this afternoon you die"
- I looked at my watch it was one twenty
- "I already gave you my lunch money what more do you want from me?!?"
- He said, "Don't try to run from me, you'll just make it worse..."
- My palms were sweaty, and I started to shake at first
- Something told me, "Try to fake a stomach ache it works"
- I screamed, "Owww! My appendix feels like they could burst!
- Teacher, teacher, quick I need a naked nurse!"
- [N] "What's the matter?"
- [E] "I don't know, my leg, it hurts!"
- [N] "Leg?!? I thought you said it was your tummy?!?"
- [E] "Oh, I mean it is, but I also got a bum knee!"
- [N] "Mr. Mathers, the fun and games are over.
- And just for that stunt, you're gonna get some extra homework."
- [E] "But don't you wanna give me after school detention?"
- [N] "Nah, that bully wants to beat your ass and I'ma let him."
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- [Chorus: repeat 2X]
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- Brain damage, ever since the day I was born
- Drugs is what they used to say I was on
- They say I never knew which way I was goin
- But everywhere I go they keep playin my song
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- [Eminem]
- Brain damage..
- Way before my baby daughter Hailey
- I was harassed daily by this fat kid named D'Angelo Bailey
- An eighth grader who acted obnoxious, cause his father boxes
- so everyday he'd shove me in the lockers
- One day he came in the bathroom while I was pissin
- And had me in the position to beat me into submission
- He banged my head against the urinal til he broke my nose,
- Soaked my clothes in blood, grabbed me and choked my throat
- I tried to plead and tell him, "We shouldn't beef"
- But he just wouldn't leave, he kept chokin me and I couldn't breathe
- He looked at me and said, "You gonna die honkey!"
- The principal walked in (What's going on in here?)
- and started helpin him stomp me
- I made them think they beat me to death
- Holdin my breath for like five minutes before they finally left
- Then I got up and ran to the janitor's storage booth
- Kicked the door hinge loose and ripped out the four inch screws
- Grabbed some sharp objects, brooms, and foreign tools
- "This is for every time you took my orange juice,
- or stole my seat in the lunchroom and drank my chocolate milk.
- Every time you tipped my tray and it dropped and spilt.
- I'm gettin you back bully! Now once and for good."
- I cocked the broomstick back and swung hard as I could
- and beat him over the head with it til I broke the wood
- Knocked him down, stood on his chest with one foot..
- .. Made it home, later that same day
- Started reading a comic, and suddenly everything became gray
- I couldn't even see what I was tryin to read
- I went deaf, and my left ear started to bleed
- My mother started screamin, "What are you on, drugs?!?
- Look at you, you're gettin blood all over my rug!" (Sorry!)
- She beat me over the head with the remote control
- opened a hole, and my whole brain fell out of my skull
- I picked it up and screamed, "Look bitch, what have you done?!?"
- [M] "Oh my God, I'm sorry son"
- [E] "Shut up you cunt!" I said, "Fuck it!"
- Took it and stuck it back up in my head
- then I sewed it shut and put a couple of screws in my neck
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- [Chorus]
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- [Eminem]
- Brain damage..
- It's brain damage..
- I got brain damage..
- It's brain damage..
- It's probably brain damage..
- It's brain damage..
- Brain damage..
- I got brain damage..
- [Hook: Rihanna]
- I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
- Get along with the voices inside of my head
- You're trying to save me, stop holdin' your breath
- And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
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- [Verse 1: Eminem]
- I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek
- Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
- Wanted to receive attention for my music
- Wanted to be left alone in public, excuse me
- For wanting my cake, and eat it too, and wanting it both ways
- Fame made me a balloon cause my ego inflated when I blew, see
- But it was confusing, cause all I wanted to do's be
- The Bruce Lee of loose leaf
- Abused ink, used it as a tool when blew steam
- Hit the lottery, ooh-wee
- But with what I gave up to get it was bittersweet
- It was like winning a used mink
- Ironic cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrink
- I'm beginning to lose sleep
- One sheep, two sheep
- Going coo-coo and kooky as Kool Keith
- But I'm actually weirder than you think
- Cause I'm...
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- [Hook]
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- [Bridge: Rihanna]
- Well, that's nothing
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- [Verse 2: Eminem]
- Now, I ain't much of a poet but I know somebody once told me to seize the moment and don't squander it
- Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow, so I keep conjuring
- Sometimes I wonder where these thoughts spawn from
- (Yeah, pondering'll do you wonders
- No wonder you're losing your mind, the way it wanders)
- Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo!
- I think it went wandering off down yonder
- And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
- Cause I need an interventionist to intervene between me and this monster
- And save me from myself and all this conflict
- Cause the very thing that I love's killing me and I can't conquer it
- My OCD is conking me in the head, keep knockin'
- Nobody's home, I'm sleepwalkin'
- I'm just relaying what the voice in my head is saying
- Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the...
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- [Hook + Bridge]
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- [Verse 3: Eminem]
- Call me crazy, but I have this vision
- One day that I'll walk amongst you a regular civilian
- But until then drums get killed and I'm
- Coming straight at MCs, blood gets spilled and I'll
- Take it back to the days that I'd get on a Dre track
- Give every kid who got played that, pumped up feelin'
- And shit to say back to the kids who played him
- I ain't here to save the fucking children
- But if one kid out of a hundred million
- Who are going through a struggle feels it and
- Relates, that's great, it's payback, Russell Wilson
- Falling way back in the draft, turn nothing into something, still can
- Make that, straw into gold chump, I will spin
- Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
- Maybe I need a straight jacket, face facts
- I am nuts for real, but I'm okay with that
- It's nothing, I'm still friends with the...
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- [Hook + Bridge]
