Survival - Eminem

This is survival of the fittest

This is do or die

This is the winner takes it all

So take it all

Wasn t ready to be no millionaire,

I was ill-prepared

I was prepared to be ill though,

the skill was there

From the beginning, it wasn t bout the ends

It was bout busting raps

and standing for something, fuck an acronym

Cut the fucking act like you re happy,

I m fucking back again

With another anthem, why stop

when it doesn t have to end?

It ain t over til I say it s over

enough when I say enough

Throw me to the wolves and close the gate up

I m afraid of what ll happen to them wolves

When the thought of being thrown

into an alligator pit, I salivate at it

Weight is up, hands up like it s 12 noon, nah, homie

Hold them bitches straighter up,

wave em til you dislocate a rotator cuff

Came up rough, came to ruffle feathers, nah, egos

I ain t deflate enough,

last chance to make this whole stadium erupt

This is survival of the fittest

This is do or die

This is the winner takes it all

So take it all

I can see the finish line with each line that I finish

I m so close to my goals

I can almost pole vault over the goal post

And if I don t got enough in the tank,

maybe I can just siphon enough

To fill up this last can,

man will I survive in this climate or what?

They said I was washed up, and got a blood bath

I m not a rapper, I m an adapter, I can adjust

Plus I can just walk up to a mic and just bust

So floor s open if you d like to discuss

Top 5 in this mothafucka and if I don t make the cut

What, like I give a fuck,

I ma light this bitch up like I m driving a truck

To the side of a pump, 0 to 60 hop in and gun it

Like G-Unit without the hyphen, I m hyping em up

And if there should ever come a time where my life s in a rut

And I look like I might just give up, eh you might ve mistook

Me for bowing out I ain t taking a bow, I m stabbing myself

With a fucking knife in the gut, while I m wiping my butt!

Cause I just shitted on the mic, and I like getting cut

I get excited at the sight of my blood, you re in a fight with a nut

Cause I ma fight til I die or win

Biting the dust it ll just make me angrier, wait

Let me remind you of what got me this far, picture me quitting

Now draw a circle around it and put a line through it, slut

It s survival of what?

This is survival of the fittest

This is do or die

This is the winner takes it all

So take it all

So get your ideas, stack your ammo

But don t come unless you come to battle,

I m mad now jump in the saddle

This is it, it s what you eat, sleep, piss and shit

Live, breathe, your whole existence just consists of this

Refuse to quit, fuse is lit, can t diffuse the wick

I don t do this music shit, I lose my shit

Ain t got shit to lose, it s the moment of truth

It s all I know how to do,

as soon as I get thrown in the booth, I spit

But my respect is overdue, I m showing you the flow no one do

Cause I don t own no diploma for school, I quit!

So there s nothing for me to fall back on, I know no other trades

So you d better trade your fucking mics in for some tool-box-es

Cause you ll never take my pride from me

It ll have to be pried from me,

so pull out your pliers and your screw-drivers

But I want you to doubt me, I don t want you to buh-lieve

Cause this is something that I must use to suc-ceed

And if you don t like me then fuck you!

Self es-teem must be fucking shooting through-the-roof cause trust me

My skin is too thick and bul-let proof to touch me

I can see why the fuck I disgust you

I must be a-llergic to failure cause every time I come close to it

I just sneeze, but I just go atchoo then achieve!

This is survival of the fittest

This is do or die

This is the winner takes it all

So take it all