[Verse 1: Eminem] ~#**************#~ We never saw from each others sides, or eye to eye ~#**************#~ Just eye for eye, lie for lie, fight or flight ~#**************#~ So much baggage, need a luggage rack ~#**************#~ But we carry on with our public spats and our feuds ~#**************#~ Up back in the news, love taps when I dissed you ~#**************#~ Like it was fun, actually used to run back to the booth ~#**************#~ Jump back in the studio, give you a tongue-lashing, then you ~#**************#~ Laughed at the stomach tat with the tombstone ~#**************#~ It was funny back in our youth ~#**************#~ But then it wasn’t after we knew ~#**************#~ That we were done and actually through (And actually through) ~#**************#~ But if theres one fraction of truth ~#**************#~ If it could be spun back I would do ~#**************#~ So many things different (Things different) ~#**************#~ ‘Cause it was such a dumbass excuse ~#**************#~ You hit me once and that I would use ~#**************#~ To continue the pattern of abuse ~#**************#~ Why did I punch back? Girls, your dad is a scumbag, I’m confused ~#**************#~ Because— ~#**************#~ [Chorus: X Ambassadors] ~#**************#~ How come you can be a lord and a loser? ~#**************#~ How come, how come, you can be a liar and a good father? ~#**************#~ A good dad, but a bad husband ~#**************#~ Why are you a good father? ~#**************#~ A great dad, but a bad husband ~#**************#~ [Verse 2: Eminem] ~#**************#~ You were the beat I loved with a writers block ~#**************#~ The line thats hot, that I forgot ~#**************#~ We laughed a little, cried a lot ~#**************#~ Ill never forget when you came home and you held Hailie ~#**************#~ Day before you went to jail and daily ~#**************#~ How wed wait for that mail lady ~#**************#~ Or by the phone for Mom to call ~#**************#~ And I watched you pull yourself up and we decided on ~#**************#~ Givin it one more try despite it all ~#**************#~ Youre my lightning rod when my sky gets dark ~#**************#~ Im your shiny rocks in that tiny box ~#**************#~ When we tied the knot, when we broke the knot ~#**************#~ Every line we crossed we were supposed to not ~#**************#~ Every time we fought, the insults they got… thrown too far ~#**************#~ Words that we said that we didn’t mean ~#**************#~ The words that we meant that we didn’t say ~#**************#~ The ones that we thought that we shoulda said ~#**************#~ Letters written that we coulda read ~#**************#~ Which maybe woulda led to some good instead ~#**************#~ And had this put to bed ~#**************#~ But Id be lyin’ still if I said I wasnt sittin here askin myself— ~#**************#~ [Chorus: X Ambassadors, Hailie Jade & Eminem] ~#**************#~ How come you can be a lord and a loser? ~#**************#~ How come, how come, you can be a liar and a good father? ~#**************#~ A good dad, but a bad husband ~#**************#~ Why are you a good father? ~#**************#~ A great dad, but a bad husband (Dad) (You said) ~#**************#~ Forever be a hero in my eyes (I reply) ~#**************#~ But there’s always another side to a good father ~#**************#~ A great dad, but a bad husband ~#**************#~ [Verse 3: Eminem] ~#**************#~ We brought out the worst in each other ~#**************#~ Someone had to make the sparring end ~#**************#~ ‘Cause I loved you, but I hated that me ~#**************#~ And I dont wanna see that side again ~#**************#~ But Im sorry, Kim ~#**************#~ More than you could ever comprehend ~#**************#~ Leavin you was fuckin harder than ~#**************#~ Sawing off a fuckin body limb ~#**************#~ Once upon a time were all we had ~#**************#~ Maybe thats what drew us ~#**************#~ To each other, it was true love ~#**************#~ Shit, we never knew was possible ~#**************#~ We might have loved each other too much ~#**************#~ And maybe thats what made us do what ~#**************#~ We did to each other, all the screw-ups ~#**************#~ ‘Cause you always thought that you was ~#**************#~ More in love with me ~#**************#~ And I was thinkin I was more in love than you was ~#**************#~ For all the times that we thought it worked ~#**************#~ ‘Til we saw how wrong we were ~#**************#~ When the dust settles now and all the dirt ~#**************#~ If I touch the rawest nerve ~#**************#~ All I want is for us not to hurt ~#**************#~ And its been an exhaustive search to find the words ~#**************#~ But I just heard “Mockingbird” ~#**************#~ And got the urge to jot some verses and thoughts ~#**************#~ The purpose was not to stir up or open wounds ~#**************#~ Ive caused a few and so have you ~#**************#~ Or argue whose fault it was ~#**************#~ Partly yours, partly mine, but really no ones ~#**************#~ This is so tough, Im gettin choked up ~#**************#~ Oh fuck it, we both suck ~#**************#~ We broke up, got back together ~#**************#~ We both thought we had forever ~#**************#~ Not bad people, just bad together ~#**************#~ We were so nuts, backstabbed each other ~#**************#~ Another blow struck, but theres no duckin this blow ~#**************#~ ‘Cause its over and its closure ~#**************#~ But Im not so sure how to close this ~#**************#~ I just dont know how some people can be so good ~#**************#~ At one thing and so fucked at a whole ‘nother ~#**************#~ Shit, its no wonder! ~#**************#~ [Chorus: X Ambassadors, Hailie Jade, Eminem] ~#**************#~ How come, how come, you can be a lord and a loser? ~#**************#~ How come, how come, you can be a liar and a good father? ~#**************#~ A good dad, but a bad husband ~#**************#~ Why are you a good father? ~#**************#~ A great dad, but a bad husband (Dad) (You said) ~#**************#~ Forever be a hero in my eyes (I reply) ~#**************#~ But theres always another side to a good father ~#**************#~ A great dad, but a bad husband