Rock Bottom [Explicit] Lyrics – Eminem
The song “Rock Bottom” was written during a depressing point in Eminem’s life, around December 20, 1996. Furthermore, we find out from the book Eminem: The Stories Behind Every Song by David Stubbs that Eminem actually overdosed on pills while recording this song in the Autumn of 1997.| Song Name : | Rock Bottom |
| Album / Movie : | The Slim Shady LP |
| Singer : | Eminem |
| Music Label : | Interscope Records |
| Cast : | Eminem |
AyoThis song is dedicated to all the happy peopleAll the happy people who have real nice livesAnd who have no idea whats it like to be broke as fuck
I feel like I’m walking a tight ropeWithout a circus netI’m popping percaseteI’m a nervous wreckI deserve respectBut I work a sweat for this worthless checkBout to burst this tech, at somebody to reverse this debtMinimum wage got my adrenaline cagedFull of venom and rageEspecially when I’m engagedAnd my daughter’s down to her last diaperThat’s got my ass hyperI pray that God answers, maybe I’ll ask nicerWatching ballers while they flossing in their pathfindersThese overnight stars becoming autograph signersWe’ll all gone blow up and leave the past behind usAlong with the small fry’s and average half pintersWhile playa haters turn bitch like they have vaginas
‘Cause we see them dollar signs and let the cash blind us
Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless
Snakes slither in the grass spineless
That’s rock bottomWhen this life makes you mad enough to killThat’s rock bottomWhen you want something bad enough to stealThat’s rock bottom
When you feel you have had it up to here
‘Cause you mad enough to scream but you sad enough to tear
That’s rock bottom
When this life makes you mad enough to killThat’s rock bottomWhen you want something bad enough to steal
That’s rock bottomWhen you feel you have had it up to here‘Cause you mad enough to scream but you sad enough to tear
My life is full of empty promises and broken dreamsI’m hoping things will look upBut there ain’t no job openingsI feel discouraged hungry and malnourishedLiving in this house with no furnace, unfurnishedAnd I’m sick of working dead end jobs with lame payAnd I’m tired of being hired and fired the same dayBut fuck it, if you know the rules to the game play‘Cause when we die we know were all going the same way
It’s cool to be player, but it sucks to be the fanWhen all you need is bucks to be the manPlus a luxury sedanToo comfortable and roomy in a six
They threw me in the mixWith all these gloomy lunaticsWalk around depressed
And smoke a pound of ses a dayAnd yesterday went by so quick it seems like it was just todayMy daughter wants to throw the ball but I’m too stressed to playLive half my life and throw the rest away
That’s rock bottomWhen this life makes you mad enough to kill
That’s rock bottomWhen you want something bad enough to steal
That’s rock bottomWhen you feel you have had it up to here‘Cause you mad enough to scream but you sad enough to tear
That’s rock bottom
When this life makes you mad enough to killThat’s rock bottomWhen you want something bad enough to stealThat’s rock bottom
When you feel you have had it up to here‘Cause you mad enough to scream but you sad enough to tear
There’s people that love me and people that hate meBut it’s the evil that made me this backstabbing, deceitful, and shadyI want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame
That means I’ll end up burning in hell scorching in flamesThat means I’m stealing your checkbook and forging your nameLifetime bliss for eternal torture and painRight now I feel like just hit the rock bottomI got problems now everybody on my blocks got ’emI’m screaming like those two cops when Tupac shot ’em
Holding two glocks, I hope your doors got new locks on ’emMy daughter’s feet ain’t got no shoes or sock’s on ’emAnd them rings you wearing look like they got a few rocks on ’emAnd while you flaunting them I could be taking them to shops to pawn themI got a couple of rings and a brand new watch you want ’em?‘Cause I never went gold of one songI’m running up on someone’s lawns with guns drawn
That’s rock bottomWhen this life makes you mad enough to killThat’s rock bottomWhen you want something bad enough to stealThat’s rock bottomWhen you feel you have had it up to here‘Cause you mad enough to scream but you sad enough to tear
That’s rock bottomWhen this life makes you mad enough to killThat’s rock bottomWhen you want something bad enough to stealThat’s rock bottomWhen you feel you have had it up to here‘Cause you mad enough to scream but you sad enough to tearThat’s rock bottom