"Write the story of your favorite song."
Interest was my response toward Without Me. Despair is the feeling that Going Through Changes produced in me. Love is the sentiment Sing For The Moment made me feel. Passion was what Beautiful activated that cold afternoon. Till I Collapse lit my inner flame, plus, Lose Yourself made me stay for a long time.
However, if there is a song that resumes all the reactions earlier mentioned and more, that would be When I'm Gone. When I'm Gone was released in 2005, alongside Eminem's newest album Curtain Calls, and quickly became a global sensation.
Because this four-minute-long story is the art piece that has touched me the most, it deserves its text. I consider it is worth ordering and describing the song from its various verses. Alright, that said, let us jump straight into today's matter.
"Yeah, it's my life. My own words, I guess."
Although the artist's opinion is highly transmitted throughout many albums, that precise way to begin a melody seemed pessimistic.
"Have you ever loved someone so much you'd give an arm for? Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for."
Woah! Marshall is quite disturbed; we can notice it; virtually everything can happen from this point on.
"But what happens when karma turns right around to bite you? And everything you stand for turns on you to spite you?"
I paused the video. "Okay, I identified myself with that part; this could bother me. Will I enjoy or hate this thing?" I thought the first time.
"And when I'm gone, just carry on, don't mourn, rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice, just know that I'm lookin' down on you smilin' and I didn't feel a thing. So, baby, don't feel my pain, just smile back."
"Darn, he is kind of giving his eulogy!"
I said, while instantly dying from wonder. I opened the tab containing the lyrics in Spanish and the original. I confirmed what I heard and committed to finishing it without interruptions any more.
Now, let me stop here. What do you think Marshall was going through during those days? His popularity had touched the sky, and his personal life was on the floor. Everyone loved him but his family. His focus was on writing, not on raising his only daughter.
"But baby, wait!" – 'It is too late, Dad, you made a choice.'"
Then, I do think he said something like this. "What is wrong with you, guy? This fame won't last forever; take care of your family, now!"
"You got one more chance to do right, and it's tonight. Now go out there and show 'em that you love 'em 'fore it's too late!"
After several hits in a couple of verses, we discover he is humiliated for his acts and tries to fix them. The past extract comes from his feelings after speaking to himself in front of the mirror.
"That's when I wake up, alarm clock's ringin', there's birds singin'."
Here—before ending the entire story—Eminem shows us how even though we have made mistakes, we can ask for an apology and act better. As he did, as we can do, too. That made me realize When I'm Gone must go with me through my future tough times.
Onward...
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