Can someone explain Space Bound please?

[Jaz]

Why can't it be about drugs? It makes a lot of sense, if you really listen to the song, with it in your mind that it is about drugs. You have to open your mind, Em's using personification to make the drugs seem like they're a woman that he's in love with. The first and second verse are from Em's perspective, both verses cast doubt about the drugs, yet he still wants them. Then I think the third verse is from the drug's perspective, it really does make a whole lotta sense. At the end of the third verse, the drugs are trying to kill him by "stopping him from breathing", and then the drugs kinda commits suicide, since that was basically when he decided to stop taking them, when he just about died.

Even IF the song was about drugs, the third verse is definitely NOT from the 'drug's perspective'


Either way, I'm still 99% sure it's just an Eminem style song about a chick.. that's how he's always done them really.. He loves them but it always ends with him hurting them physically.

[xxTrigger1989xx]

Why can't it be about drugs? It makes a lot of sense, if you really listen to the song, with it in your mind that it is about drugs. You have to open your mind, Em's using personification to make the drugs seem like they're a woman that he's in love with. The first and second verse are from Em's perspective, both verses cast doubt about the drugs, yet he still wants them. Then I think the third verse is from the drug's perspective, it really does make a whole lotta sense. At the end of the third verse, the drugs are trying to kill him by "stopping him from breathing", and then the drugs kinda commits suicide, since that was basically when he decided to stop taking them, when he just about died.

Even IF the song was about drugs, the third verse is definitely NOT from the 'drug's perspective'


Either way, I'm still 99% sure it's just an Eminem style song about a chick.. that's how he's always done them really.. He loves them but it always ends with him hurting them physically.

Why not? A year and six months sounds too specific, that's probably how long he was sober when he wrote the song or something. It can be taken anyway that you want. I'm not saying you're wrong, so don't say I'm wrong. You gotta admit, the idea of Recovery makes a lot more sense if you look at it that way. The third verse is debatable, though, definitely. That's just how I saw it when I was listening to it last night. I thought it was about a girl until I saw this thread and listened to the song, with this thread in mind, and that's how I saw it

[MikeNUFC]

The ambulance noise at the start is enough to convince me. No-one who's on the side of it being about a woman can explain that.

[femzy]

Drugs don't "talk back" he's fighting with himself in his head. Part of him wants to die, part of him wants to live. That third verse is when he overdosed, he shot himself in the temple and killed the relationship with drugs before it could kill him.

[Pesci]

Anyone who believes LTWYL is not about Kim must be very confused

[pfati]

Anyone who believes LTWYL is not about Kim must be very confused

a very dumb first post.... yeah in terms of em it could be about kim but if u look at the bigger picture its more about an abusiv unhealthy relationship

[Pesci]

His abusive relationship w/ Kim.



I wont bother posting anymore - a lot of the anaylsis of his songs by people on this forum are pathetic.

[LindseyPaige]

Re-read my post. Its about a women, period. He has been hurt his whole life (by kim) and this is him giving love a chance even though every fiber in his being tells him this girl wont be different "promise me if i cave in and break and leave myself open i wont be making a mistake." What drug requires you to leave yourself open? You cut your chest open to shoot heroin? Drugs just hit you.

He finally lets go and trusts her again and finds out he was right all along, he shouldnt have trusted her and he is so hurt he cant take it anymore and kills her and himself. The whole song has him explicitly detailing just how enamored and adored he is with her. If you dont get the words and imagery like "we clutch i feel a rush," then you've never felt true, unconditional love; and i feel sorry for you.

I couldn't agree w/ you more!

[xxTrigger1989xx]

Drugs don't "talk back" he's fighting with himself in his head. Part of him wants to die, part of him wants to live. That third verse is when he overdosed, he shot himself in the temple and killed the relationship with drugs before it could kill him.

It's called personifcation. Personification is giving an inanimate object human qualities or abilites. A lot of people don't understand this, it's very possible that drugs could be in the form of a woman, in Em's mind. Maybe one day Em will explain the song and we'll really know what it's about. The third verse is correct, for the most part, I just still think the drugs talk back to him during that verse

I think Em picked all these songs for a reason. Maybe not WTP, Cold Wind Blows, or So Bad, but all the rest of them hint towards some kind of recovery, from something. Be it drugs, women, or a slump. It makes a lot of sense if people would look at Space Bound as being about drugs, as I've said. 25TL is about hip-hop in the form of a woman, why can't SB be about drugs in the form of a woman?

I'm not saying you disagree, btw. It's clear that you DO think the song is about drugs, the first paragraph is addressed to you, the second is to anyone, I just didn't wanna double post

[Yourheartisthemoon]

Seduction is about seducing hip hop fans no question. 25 to Life is about hip hop itself. I thought it was very obvious that Seduction was about rap fans.

It’s like we’re playing lyrical tug of war with your ear

You hear it, girl come here, put your ear up to the speaker

Dear, while I freak this world premier

Seducing her, loosen up with a little freestyle that’ll…

Wait, am I losing ya?
Am I making you look bad?

Well I got news for ya homie, you’re losing her

Oh wait she don’t like when I spit it fast

Am I tryna show how, let me slow it down some

It’s still gonna be a blowout

You’re gonna wanna throw out your whole album

Rummage through the shit and try to salvage something

To see if you can save any of it punk, but none of it’s fucking with me


Explain me then 1st and 2nd verse?

PS:Can someone really have a 7 disc cd changer in a car?

my father has a 10 disc cd changer is his car so yes.
it seems i buyed a different album. seduction and spacebound about drugs?????!!!!!

[LindseyPaige]

Didn't Eminem explain the meaning to all of the songs on Recovery on Shade45?

[MackBook]

Re-read my post. Its about a women, period. He has been hurt his whole life (by kim) and this is him giving love a chance even though every fiber in his being tells him this girl wont be different "promise me if i cave in and break and leave myself open i wont be making a mistake." What drug requires you to leave yourself open? You cut your chest open to shoot heroin? Drugs just hit you.

He finally lets go and trusts her again and finds out he was right all along, he shouldnt have trusted her and he is so hurt he cant take it anymore and kills her and himself. The whole song has him explicitly detailing just how enamored and adored he is with her. If you dont get the words and imagery like "we clutch i feel a rush," then you've never felt true, unconditional love; and i feel sorry for you.

No, Mackbook. He doesn't mean literally leave himself open. It's metaphorically speaking. Open, as in, vulnerable. Exposed.

How do you explain the fucking AMBULANCE at the start of the song? Rushing someone off to hospital? That's Eminem screaming, "The song is metaphorical!!!!!!!" in your face.

Yes, Amadeo. I get the vulnerable thing, like he's scared to leave his heart vulnerable genius.

Ambulance? I heard a police car, or maybe a fire truck, which are both present and guess what? A SPACE LAUNCH. Because he's a space bound rocketship n all, get it? I also hear what sounds like something taking off in the intro, a space ship maybe? Or is that him taking off because he's so high

[bonitaT]

To anyone who thinks this song is about drugs, I hope you're not a native English speaker because if you are, that's really sad. The song is definitely about a girl, the question is whether it's about an actual girl or not. From listening to the song multiple times, if anything, this song is like another Stan. Each verse is another stage in the relationship between this man and a woman. In the first verse, the guy has just fallen in love with the girl, but he doesn't trust her completely. He doesn't open up to her and he doesn't know if he can trust her, even though he wants to. In the second verse, they're together and the relationship is amazing. Even then though, the guy isn't completely open with the girl and he isn't himself around her. Even though he loves her he hasn't opened up to her yet. In the last lines of the 2nd verse he says "Promise me if I cave in and break and leave myself open that I won't be making a mistake". In the third verse, it's obvious that he's opened up to the girl but she doesn't want him anymore. He kills her, then shoots himself.

yes finally someone who makes sense

[DanWS]

Yea, I took a close listen to the lyrics yesterday and I'm sure its about a girl, not drugs. It's become almost the norm now for people to say "oh he is not really talkin about what you think he is talking about, he is actually referring to something else" when a lot of the time that isnt really true.

What lines in particular have some of you so convinced that its about drugs? OK I hear someone say he is using personification - but how do u know he is not actually talking about a plant? Or an animal? Or a kitchen sink? What lines make it certain that he is talking about drugs? Coz I didnt pick up on any.

[ChristinaE12]

The sirens may be an ambulance and all.. But how is it that it can only be because Eminem overdosed. Did he not shoot/kill himself in the end of the song?

Just wondering.