How Come (Extended Version)

[Intro: Eminem]

So I changed huh

You got a phone

Pick up and call me

[Hook: Eminem]

How come we don't even talk no more and you don't even call no more

We don't barely keep in touch at all and I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more

And I heard it through the grapevine we even beefing now

After all the years we've been down

Ain't no way no how. This bullshit can't be true

We family.. ain't a damn thing changed.. unless its you!

[Verse 1: Eminem]

We were so young so full of life and vibrance

Side by side, wherever you was riding, I went

So close, almost on some Bonnie and Clyde shit

When Ronnie died you was right by my side

With a shoulder to cry on and tissue to wipe my eyes

And a bucket to catch ever tear I cried inside it

You even had the same type of childhood I did

Sometimes I just wanna know why is it that you succame to yours

And mine I survived it. You ran the streets, I 9 to 5ed it

We grew up, grew apart as time went by us

And I blew up to both yours and mines surprises

Now I feel a vibe I just can't describe it

Much as your pride tries to hide it your cold your touch is just like ice

And your eyes is a look of resentment I can sense it and I don't like it

[Hook: Eminem]

How come we don't even talk no more and you don't even call no more

We don't barely keep in touch at all and I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more

And I heard it through the grapevine we even beefing now

After all the years we've been down

Ain't no way no how. This bullshit can't be true

We family.. ain't a damn thing changed.. unless its you!

[Verse 2: Kon Artis]

It was my dream at first to be off spitting a verse

On my own album with a deal but shit got worse

'Fore I came out I woulda killed a nigga first

For I let him disrespect me, or check me over some worrisome

Bitch that I wasn't with I woulda hit it and quit

But you were playing to talk with her and tell her she was the shit

I told you don't get involved with her you would smoke in the car with her

Coming outta the bar with her stumbling half drunk

Like y'all was husband and wife or something

But me catching her fucking other niggas musta hurt your pride or something

Cause you woof off at the mouth to people like you want it with me

When all I tried to do was show that your bitch was shifty

And ever since the fans and all the shit that I produced

You acting like I ain't your man and lying like she can't be loose

But I am really your friend, I'm just trying to tell ya the truth

Don't hate the game or the player the one that's changing is you

[Hook: Eminem]

How come we don't even talk no more and you don't even call no more

We don't barely keep in touch at all and I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more

And I heard it through the grapevine we even beefing now

After all the years we've been down

Ain't no way no how. This bullshit can't be true

We family.. ain't a damn thing changed.. unless its you!

[Verse 3: Proof, Eminem]

Its gets lonely at the top cause my homie had to stop

Now we acting like I gotta live only for the block

And homies in the hood only see me on the tube

So they gossip on the porch get to speaking all rude

Fools I used to rap wit all expect magic

Like my finger get to snapping and poof it just happen

But proof is just acting out the part he was thrown

Shady made it so my babies ain't starving at home

See the devil in your glance since the ghetto we been friends

Forever real intelligence that's forever till the end

I peep the hatred in your eyes, and the Satan in your lies

Ain't wasting my time with these snakes in disguise

How come when you talk it's with bitter and spite?

(AND HOW COME) It's my fault for what you did with your life?

And every time I go to hear you play, you look away

We barely embrace, you can't even look me in my face

[Eminem]

How come?

[Verse 4: Bizarre]

When we started dating I was almost 9

Now I'm 35 missing that big behind

And all I do is drive think about our lives

Come home every night dodging butcher knives

And I ain't gon' lie I like the attention

Sleeping with other wives saying I'm out fishing

Let's put it all behind let's settle our difference

You ready to talk I'm ready to listen

[Verse 5: Swifty McVay]

Back in the days I was feening for fame

It's a shame rappers just like coochie you kick game until you bang

And every waking morning I'm doing the same thing

Just hanging and brainstorming just trying to make a name

When you blessing the game

That's when everyone around you whole perception will change

And you accept it cuz you made it

But when your funds faded your treated like a scoundrel

Obviously your homies never gave a shit about you

I paid my dues twice and I ain't lying

See that's first in the hood and the other after I signed

No time for being kind when your enemies shown

I walk alone while y'all trying anything to get on

[Hook: Eminem]

How come we don't even talk no more and you don't even call no more

We don't barely keep in touch at all and I don't even feel the same love when we hug no more

And I heard it through the grapevine we even beefing now

After all the years we've been down

Ain't no way no how. This bullshit can't be true

We family.. ain't a damn thing changed.. unless its you!