Drug Ballad [German translation]

[Intro]

Yeah, haha, whoo, shit

(Aight, guess what? I ain't coming in yet

I'll come in a minute

Ayo, this is my love song, it goes like this)

[Verse 1]

Back when Mark Wahlberg was Marky Mark (fuckin' faggot!)

This is how we used to make the party start

We used to mix Hen with Bacardi Dark

And when it kicks in you can hardly talk

And by the sixth gin you're gon' probably crawl

And you'll be sick then and you'll probably barf

And my prediction is you're gon' probably fall

Either somewhere in the lobby or the hallway wall

And everything's spinnin', you're beginnin' to think women

Are swimmin' in pink linen again in the sink, then in

A couple of minutes that bottle of Guinness is finished

You are now allowed to officially slap bitches

You have the right to remain violent and start wilin'

Start a fight with the same guy that was smart eyein' you

Get in your car, start it, and start drivin'

Over the island and cause a 42-car pile-up

(Earth calling, pilot to co-pilot

Looking for life on this planet, sir, no sign of it

All I can see is a bunch of smoke flyin'

And I'm so high that I might die if I go by it

Let me outta this place, I'm outta place

I'm in outer space, I've just vanished without a trace

I'm going to a pretty place now where the flowers grow

I'll be back in an hour or so)

[Hook]

‘Cause every time I go to try to leave

Something keeps pullin' on my sleeve

I don't wanna, but I gotta stay

These drugs really got a hold of me

‘Cause every time I try to tell 'em "no"

They won't let me ever let 'em go

I'm a sucker all I gotta say

These drugs really got a hold of me

[Verse 2]

In third grade, all I used to do

Was sniff glue through a tube and play Rubik's Cube

Seventeen years later I'm as rude as Jude

Schemin' on the first chick with the hugest boobs

I've got no game, and every face looks the same

They've got no name, so I don't need game to play

I just say whatever I want to whoever I want

Whenever I want, wherever I want, however I want

However, I do show some respect to few

This ecstasy's got me standin' next to you

Getting sentimental as fuck, spillin' guts to you

We just met, but I think I'm in love with you

But you're on it too, so you tell me you love me too

Wake up in the morning like, "Yo, what the fuck we do?"

I gotta go, bitch, you know I got stuff to do

‘Cause if I get caught cheatin' then I'm stuck with you

But in the long run, these drugs are probably going

To catch up sooner or later, but fuck it, I'm on one

So let's enjoy, let the X destroy your spinal cord

So it's not a straight line no more

'Til we walk around looking like some wind-up dolls

Shit's stickin' out of our backs like a dinosaur

Shit, six hits won't even get me high no more

So bye for now, I'm going to try to find some more

[Hook]

‘Cause every time I go to try to leave

Something keeps pullin' on my sleeve

I don't wanna, but I gotta stay

These drugs really got a hold of me

‘Cause every time I try to tell 'em "no"

They won't let me ever let 'em go

I'm a sucker all I gotta say

These drugs really got a hold of me

[Verse 3]

That's the sound of a bottle when it's hollow

When you swallow it all wallow and drown in your sorrow

And tomorrow you're probably gonna wanna do it again

What's a little spinal fluid between you and a friend?

Screw it! And what's a little bit of alcohol poisonin'?

And what's a little fight? Tomorrow, you'll be boys again

It's your life, live it however you wanna

Mar-a-ju-on-na is everywhere, where was you brought up?

It don't matter as long as you get where you're goin'

‘Cause none of this shit's gonna mean shit where we're goin'

They tell you to stop, but you just sit there ignorin'

Even though you wake up feeling like shit every mornin'

But you're young, you've got a lot of drugs to do

Girls to screw, parties to crash, sucks to be you

If I could take it all back now, I wouldn't

I would have did more shit that people said that I shouldn't

But I'm all grown up now and upgraded

And graduated to better drugs and updated

But I still got a lotta growing up to do

I still got a whole lotta throwing up to spew

But when it's all said and done, I'll be forty

Before I know it with a 40 on the porch tellin' stories

With a bottle of Jack, two grandkids in my lap

Babysitting for Hailie while Hailie's out getting smashed

[Hook]

‘Cause every time I go to try to leave

Something keeps pullin' on my sleeve

I don't wanna, but I gotta stay

These drugs really got a hold of me

‘Cause every time I try to tell 'em "no"

They won't let me ever let 'em go

I'm a sucker all I gotta say

These drugs really got a hold of me

• Artist:Eminem
• Album:The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)