May all of the protection needed to see you through the night rest upon you. Now that you ain’t here, I can always wait until tomorrow. I’m here tonight craving for your touch, kiss and cuddles. I can’t wait to fall asleep so the sweet moments can begin! Goodnight angel.ģ3. Here’s another night to have you in my dreams. Get to bed early, so you can make the best of tomorrow. But the more I learn about this artist’s past and how underneath all of his diss tracks and attitude of “whateverness’ is a man who just wants to watch his daughters grow, the more I just want to listen to how he is expressing that to his audience and he is letting us see his vulnerability.31. At first, I think I liked it because the argument between Eminem and fame was euphoniously appealing to me for whatever reason, even though it just sounds creepy. When I first heard this song, I couldn’t figure out why I was so attached to it and why I couldn’t stop listening to it.

Lose your best friend from high school, your wife tooĬome off tour, can’t even sleep at night without NyQuilīecome a Valium addict, start a rehab cycle” Oh, but you didn’t know fame has a price too? Look at this house, look at these cars: they’re so nice, woo! This is what you wanted your whole life, Marshall, right? Ooh You’d give anything to get a record deal? Well, Dre signed you You remember that night you prayed to God Ha-ha, you sold your soul to me, need I remind you? “You can’t kill a spirit even if you tried to Since Eminem got what he wished for, he is realizing now that he has to keep the fame no matter how much he tries to conceal it or kill it. I like to believe that the voice is in fact fame, trying to convince Eminem to let that darkness come out, perform in front of his fans, dye his hair, drink and show him that he can’t kill fame. At first, I thought the Slim Shady prediction could be true because of how dangerous that persona was to his life. For Eminem, I believe that he would want to bring more significance to the figure, rather than just saying that this fight is between him and an easy antagonist of many’s stories. People debate about who this voice is supposed to represent. In the remaining verses, the debated “devil,” “demon,” “personified fame,” or “Slim Shady” begins to talk to Eminem to beg him to go back to his hardcore life of constantly rapping, writing, dissing, touring, drinking, and abusing drugs. So he’s like my competition, I mean, right? You’d probably crap in your pants, ‘cause I’m white and he’s white If I was to say somethin’ about Paul Wall ‘Cause you’re just dyin’ to know what I think That’s the route you probably want me to take “If I were to rap about the crap that’s out He expresses that he feels forced to take the fame that he once dreamed about and now he has to take ownership of who the world sees him as. At first, Eminem wraps like normal and explains that he constantly feels pressured to hate and fight against the other rappers in the community. If you aren’t used to the weird, scary, honest, and untraditional methods that Eminem poses to represent his thoughts, then this song could definitely be scary. This track almost wasn’t released, for reasons not really known, and was put on the extended version of the CD and let fans in on the inner fight Mathers was having against Slim. “My Darling” represents the struggle of Mathers questioning if he wants to be in the spotlight. The alter ego and the fame he was pressured to keep caused him to lose sight of what is important in his life by putting away his dark side, Marshall Mathers was able to focus on his two girls growing up and the other relationships in his life during his hiatus. What created this hiatus was his addiction to medication and his inner fight of not wanting to be in the spotlight and putting away his aggressive, bleach-haired, alcoholic alter ego, Slim Shady.

This album was released four years after one of his more successful albums. Eminem did not stop showing his vulnerable self with his album Relapse.

Go back to sleep now my darling