50 Ways Lyrics

[Verse 2: Eminem]
I feel like a serial killer, I keep dumpin' bodies in the lake
I'ma get caught and sent up the river
I shiver when I think of the company I keep
How do I know she ain't gonna kill me when I sleep?
I shriek every time she hands me something to drink
Sex kept us together, when we slept together, everything
Was all better, she made me feel like a king
Slowly she began lowering my self-esteem
She'd go to the club and not answer the phone when I call her
And I just bought her a truck for fifty thousand dollars
Accuse me of doin' drugs and scream and holla
Then I find a bag of coke on her, some marijuana
And all I know is every time I go
To them hidin' spots wherever she hides her blow
Them little bags of dope, there was a pile of coke
That's growin' smaller, and that was just a while ago
And I wouldn't even let on like I know
What was I supposed to do, call her out on it? We'd just argue
Say she put it there on purpose and flip the whole script
Ooh, she's a manipulative evil bitch!
A cunnin' little cunt, little deceitful witch
She thought she had me, 'til my shrink told me this:

[Chorus: Paul Simon]
"The problem is all inside your head," she said to me
"The answer is easy if you take it logically
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover"

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Genius Annotation

“50 Ways” is a leaked track that was rumored to be from the scrapped Eminem project, King Mathers. It has the questionable distinction of being the last song to date that Eminem wrote about his desire to murder his wife/ex-wife Kim – while the song doesn’t name her, it includes intimate details about the couple’s chaotic sex life and Kim’s cocaine issues. It makes frequent references to the older Kim murder ballads, particularly “‘97 Bonnie and Clyde”.

The song samples Paul Simon’s 1975 track “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”, amusingly casting Paul as Shady’s shrink. Eminem previously sampled this song on “Murder, Murder”, from his own Slim Shady EP.

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