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Eminem
Recovery
Released June 18, 2010
Recorded 2010
Format CD/Digital download
Genre Hip hop, rap
Length 4:39
Label Aftermath, Interscope, Shady
Writer Eminem
Producer Script Shepherd

"Cinderella Man" is a song by American hip hop artist Eminem. It is the eleventh track on his seventh studio album Recovery (2010). It was written by Mathers, and it was produced by Script Shepherd.

Lyrics[]

[Intro]
You know technically
I'm not even really supposed to be here right now
So fuck it
Might as well make the most of it

[Verse 1]
Feels good
Guess I'm lucky
Some of us don't get a second chance
But I ain't blowing this one
Shit I feel like I can do anything now
Who can catch lightning in the bottle, set fire to water?
Coming out the nozzle on the fire hose
Flyer than swatters
Cinderella man, Cinderella man
Smash an hourglass
Grab the sand
Take his hands and cup em
Spit a rhyme and freeze the clock
Take the hands of time and cuff em
Cinderella man, Cinderella man
There's a storm comin that the weatherman couldn't predict
I start the bug, prick you better, flee cause I get ticked
It's a wrap, I was down, when I was down, I was kicked
I got up, I'm bout to punch you to the ground
You trick, it's a trap
Fuck my last CD, the shit's in my trash
I be god damned if another rapper gets in my ass
I hit the gas and I spit every rap as if it's my last
You can die in the blink of an eye
So bat your eyelashes, and keep winking and blowing kisses
Cause you're flirting with death
I'm destroying your livelihood, I ain't just hurting your rep
I catch a flow and get going
No remorse I'm showing, ain't slowing for no one
Knowing there is nothing you can do about it
Zero in on the target like a marksman
The target is you
I shut your lane down
Took your spot, parked in it too
Arsenic flow, lighter fluid saliva: what can you do?
Go get your crew to hype you up stand behind you like "whoooo!"
That boy's hot enough to melt Hell, burn Satan too
Fry his ass and put his ashes back together with glue
See you can hate em, he don't blame you frankly he would too
This game could ill afford to lose him
How bout you? Now guess who?

[Hook]
Here's a clue
He came to a ball in a wife beater
Lost his Nike shoe
It's in your ass
He's in your ass, he's all up in your psyche too
Now what's his name? Cinderella man, Cinderella man
If I had a time machine, I'd be Cinderella man
Music is my time machine so call me
(Cinderella man, Cinderella man)

[Verse 2]
Fuck catching lightning
He struck it, screamed "shut up" at thunder
Flipped the world upside down and made it rain upward
Cinderella man, Cinderella man
Rewound the future to the present
Paused it - don't ask how
Fuck the past, motherfucker
He's the shit right now, he's
Cinderella man, Cinderella man
Cinderella man, Cinder Fellow, Shady dane
Came to wrap the game up in cellophane
Raise hell, from Hell he came
But didn't come to bore you with the Cinderella story
Nor did he come to do the same
Can't afford to be a lame-o in this day and age
And at this stage of the game
Mediocrity can no longer be allowed to fly
So say bye to the old, H-I
To the new que sera
Consider it his last hurrah
The coup de gras
Raise em high in the sky, keep em up
Time to bring the place alive
Thanks for being patient, I will make no more mistakes
Shit, my potato's baked
Homie, the veggies on my plate can fly
My filet is smoking weed
Yeah, faggot - the steaks are high
Shit I ain't even suppose to be here
By the grace of god, the skin on my teeth
And the hair on my nuts, I skated by
Now y'all are on thin ice
With ankle weights I hate to lie
How fucking irritated are you?
How much in your face am I?
It ain't shit you could do but fear it
Proof is here in spirit, I'm the spitting image
I'll mirror it when I stand near it
Your pussy lyric: I "cunt" hear it
Who forms pyramids and raps circles around square lyricists, who?

[Hook]
Here's a clue
He came to a ball in a wife beater
Lost his Nike shoe
It's in your ass
He's in your ass, he's all up in your psyche too
Now what's his name? Cinderella man, Cinderella man
If I had a time machine, I'd be Cinderella man
Music is my time machine so call me
(Cinderella man, Cinderella man)

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