[00:00:00] Stepping Stone (Clean) - Eminem
[00:01:00] Producer：Luis Resto/Eminem
[00:03:00] Take you to the river
[00:07:00] Yeah yeah yeah yeah
[00:10:00] It\'s 2002 everything was totally new
[00:12:00] We were globally huge watchin\' sales go through the roof
[00:15:00] We wrote and we viewed it Runyon Avenue soldiers included
[00:17:00] A multitude of homies who would bounce for no good excuse
[00:20:00] We were so bulletproof wrote souped and soaked in our youth
[00:23:00] Thought we was runnin\' sh*t \'til we lost the sole of our shoe
[00:27:00] The death of Doody broke us in two
[00:28:00] We were thrown for a loop ain\'t none of us know what to do
[00:31:00] And at the time I was goin\' through my own struggles too
[00:34:00] So I wasn\'t in no condition to be coachin\' us through
[00:36:00] Everyone tried to go solo really nobody blew
[00:39:00] I was hopin\' they do so I ain\'t have to shoulder the crew
[00:42:00] The plan was put everyone in position so that they knew
[00:44:00] How to stand on they own and I don\'t want to open up wounds
[00:47:00] I just noticed that oomf was gone when we go in the booth
[00:49:00] \'Cause the truth is the moment that Proof died so did the group
[00:52:00] If I could leave this world behind
[00:57:00] I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line
[01:03:00] Turn to the river with you
[01:08:00] Help me leave this all behind
[01:12:00] I\'ma wash away my sins
[01:15:00] I\'ma rinse away this dirt
[01:18:00] I forgot to make amends
[01:20:00] To all the friends I may have hurt
[01:23:00] I better stop and say my grace
[01:26:00] From that I pray that I don\'t fall
[01:28:00] \'Cause on the way back down I may
[01:31:00] End up runnin\' back into them all
[01:33:00] I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
[01:40:00] It was never the same and it\'s bothered me since
[01:43:00] And the farther we drift apart the more awkward it gets
[01:46:00] The more time goes by the more life happens
[01:48:00] And we gotta be men we got responsibilities
[01:51:00] Plus we don\'t say how we feel
[01:52:00] And I feel like this is what got us in the debacle we\'re in
[01:55:00] Been with you guys thick and thin
[01:56:00] But it\'s almost as if sometimes we\'re not even friends
[01:59:00] Which reminded me Biz
[02:00:00] Rockstar was the sh*t
[02:01:00] Y\'all coulda got you a hit without me on the sh*t
[02:04:00] If you woulda put D12 on it wish I coulda did
[02:07:00] More than try talkin\' you into comin\' up off of it
[02:09:00] I know it wasn\'t my fault but part of it probably is
[02:12:00] I think of all of the trips to BET
[02:14:00] And the rappers I wish that we woulda politicked with
[02:16:00] Maybe y\'all coulda clicked and got you some features
[02:19:00] But that\'s water under the bridge
[02:20:00] But I\'m washin\' my sins in it \'til my conscience is cleansed
[02:23:00] If I could leave this world behind
[02:28:00] I could open up my eyes and walk in a straight line
[02:34:00] Turn to the river with you
[02:39:00] Help me leave this all behind
[02:43:00] I\'ma wash away my sins
[02:46:00] I\'ma rinse away this dirt
[02:49:00] I forgot to make amends
[02:51:00] To all the friends I may have hurt
[02:54:00] I better stop and say my grace
[02:57:00] From that I pray that I don\'t fall
[02:59:00] \'Cause on the way back down I may
[03:02:00] End up runnin\' back into them all
[03:04:00] I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
[03:11:00] Bacardi and Hen\' never thought the party would end
[03:14:00] One minute you\'re bodyin\' sh*t but then your audience splits
[03:17:00] You can already sense the climate is startin\' to shift
[03:19:00] To these kids you no longer exist
[03:21:00] Went from rainin\' cats and dogs in this b**ch
[03:23:00] To tiny drops little drips
[03:25:00] And by the time your reign is over you\'ll hardly be missed
[03:28:00] You start thinkin\' of all the artists you gift all the carnage you left
[03:31:00] Is this the kind of karma you get
[03:33:00] For turnin\' your f**kin\' back on Bizzy Kuniva and Swift
[03:35:00] A Freudian slip subconsciously I honestly wished
[03:38:00] I ain\'t feel so much guilt and y\'all didn\'t harbor resentment
[03:41:00] But it\'s hard to pretend that y\'all ain\'t got none
[03:43:00] I just wish I had words
[03:44:00] But I guess they\'re just are none for this
[03:46:00] To my partners I can\'t say how sorry I am
[03:48:00] This is not how I planned for our story to end
[03:51:00] I love all of you man
[03:52:00] But I just can\'t be the guy everybody depends
[03:55:00] On for entire careers \'cause that\'s not even fair
[03:58:00] I will always be here but that spark isn\'t there
[04:00:00] And I don\'t know how to recapture that time and that era
[04:03:00] I\'ve tried hearkening back to but I\'m fightin\' for air
[04:06:00] I\'m barely chartin\' myself
[04:07:00] Feels like I\'m on the descent but it was not my intent
[04:10:00] To treat y\'all like a stepping stone
[04:12:00] Though I ain\'t left no one behind but we been down every road
[04:15:00] Done all we possibly can I know we kept our hopes up
[04:18:00] But the longer we spend livin\' this lie that we live
[04:21:00] The less is left for closure so let\'s let this go
[04:23:00] It\'s not goodbye to our friendship but D12 is over
[04:28:00] I\'ma wash away my sins
[04:30:00] I\'ma rinse away this dirt
[04:33:00] I forgot to make amends
[04:35:00] To all the friends I may have hurt
[04:38:00] I better stop and say my grace
[04:41:00] From that I pray that I don\'t fall
[04:43:00] \'Cause on the way back down I may
[04:46:00] End up runnin\' back into them all
[04:49:00] I never meant to use you all as my stepping stones
[04:54:00] I never meant to make you feel like my stepping stones
[04:59:00] I never meant to use you all for my stepping stones