Can someone explain Space Bound please?

[mrjizzbomber]

I'm not saying its for sure about drugs, I just think you're being too dismissive of the notion. Theres a lot of good evidence its about drugs.

The chorus emphasizes going to the moon in a rocket ship (getting "high").

Verse two starts by describing physiological experiences strongly associated with drug use (shaking when high / withdrawal symptoms when not high): "I'll do whatever it takes, when I'm witchu, I get the shakes. My body aches when I ain't, witchu, I have zero strength"

Eminem was probably about a year and a half sober when recording this track/album, and verse 3 begins "So after a year and 6 months, it's no longer me that you want"

The song ends with violent murder/suicide imagery. The story ends when Eminem kicks his habit.

Something about the final 2 lines of the first verse also indicate, to me at least, that hes speaking to drugs: "It's like an explosion every time I hold ya, I wasn't jokin' when I told ya. You take my breath away, you're a supernova". The words 'explosion' and 'supernova' there make me think of getting high."

Anyway, I hope that clears up why people think its about drugs. I always picture that final bridge as being his old self / 'the drugs' farewell to him. Once again "look up at the sky" ties together with "getting high", and he (hopefully) isn't going to relapse, so its a farewell.

[Emadyville]

I think it's about love, I think the only drug thing would be the year and a half line...that's just my opinion tho

[MackBook]

Its about how hard it is to fall in love again after spending a lifetime being hurt and heartbroken. The first verse explains that clearly, very clearly.

The second verse is him in love, he is really starting to trust her and is engulfed in love for her. "Promise me that if i cave in and break and leave myself open that i wont be makin a mistake." He is saying this to her, asking her to promise him that if he breaks down the walls and fully lets her in his heart that she wont fuck him over and he "wont be makin a mistake" by letting her in.

Third is him dealing with the loss of her breaking the promise he asked in the second verse. He tries to talk to her and convince her not to leave, but she won't so instead of convincing her to stay, he makes her by killing her, if he cant have her no one will. Also he will not give love a chance again after being hurt this time and is just fed up and kills himself as well. As a consolation they can be together forever...in the stars....

A tragic love story, about a woman.

[HereHere]

I think it's just about addiction/obsession. It can be applied to many things, however you view the song is up to you.

[DƎRDYPK]

what does the hook in space bound mean

Fucking Miracles

[MackBook]

what does the hook in space bound mean

"Im a space bound rocketship and your heart's the moon, and im aiming right at you"

Its just wordplay/metaphors. Her heart is the moon, and he is a spaceship taking the long and dangerous journey to her love.

"250,000 on a clear night in june, and im aiming right at you"

The earth and moon are 250,000 miles apart, tying in with the first line and also inferring the great lengths he will go to get to her heart.

[Jay-19]

I think it's about milk.

[Devil'sAdvocate]

Space Bound is about a random girl.

Seduction is about seducing fans with his lyricisim.

[BILI]

"Kim"is actually about aliens,ha hates them,and then he kills them,its all metaphor

[Omar Khalid]

Space Bound is about a random girl
Seduction about girls too

There's no song about drugs.

[Evan C.]

"Kim"is actually about aliens,ha hates them,and then he kills them,its all metaphor

BILI continuing to be a complete idiot.

"We touch I feel a rush...My body aches when I ain't with you"

TOTALLY not hinting at drugs or anything, yo.

[BILI]

"Kim"is actually about aliens,ha hates them,and then he kills them,its all metaphor

BILI continuing to be a complete idiot.

"We touch I feel a rush...My body aches when I ain't with you"

TOTALLY not hinting at drugs or anything, yo.

You`re a fool if you believe that,thats love idiot
Here let me quote you some parts of the song that might get into your stupid brain:

we touch i feel a rush
we clutch it isnt much
but its enough to make me wonder whats in store for us
its lust its torcherous
you must be a socerous cause you just
did the impossible
game i trust dont play games itll be dangerous
if you fuck me over
cause if i get burnt imma show you what its like to hurt
cause i been treated like dirt before ya
and love is evil
spell it backwards ill show ya

This is about drugs?I feel sad for you if you think so

frozen as snow i show no emotion whatsoever so
dont ask me why i have no love for these mufuckin hos
bloodsuckin suckubusses what the fuck is up with this
ive tried in this department but i aint had no luck with this
its sucks but its exactly what i thought it would be

Oh...this one is about drugs for sure

why do we say that until we get that person that we thinks
gonna be that one and then once we get em its never the same
you want them when they dont want you
soon as they do feelings change
its not a contest and i aint on no conquest for no mate

ill blow my brains in your lap
lay here and die in your arms
up to my knees and im bleedin
im tryin to stop you from leavin
you wont even listen so fuck it
im tryin to stop you from breathin
i put both hands on your throat
i sit on top of you squeezin
til i snap ya neck like a popsicle stick
aint no possible reason i could think of to let you walk up out this house
and let you live
tears streamed down both of my cheeks
then i let you just go and just give
and before i put that gun to my temple
i told you this

And i would do anything for you
to show you how much i adored you
but its over now
its too late to save our love
just promise me youll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star cause imma

Dude you`re a retard,Space Bound is about girl,either real or imaginary one

What?Is LTWYL also about drugs?Cause if you look at it the way you look at it every song could be a metaphor.97 Bonnie and Clyde is not about killing his wife,its about killing his dog,but he just used that as a metaphor,ya dig?

[Fleka]

I think that every love song from Eminem speaks about Kim. Space Bound is not about drugs.

[BILI]

I actually think Eminem intended the song to be taken both ways.. it can be about girls and drugs.

Well this could be
But I think that its not just about drugs,so this what you said could be true.
Because this part in my eyes is about girl:

let down my guard swear to god
ill blow my brains in your lap
lay here and die in your arms
up to my knees and im bleedin
im tryin to stop you from leavin
you wont even listen so fuck it
im tryin to stop you from breathin
i put both hands on your throat
i sit on top of you squeezin
til i snap ya neck like a popsicle stick
aint no possible reason i could think of to let you walk up out this house
and let you live
tears streamed down both of my cheeks
then i let you just go and just give
and before i put that gun to my temple
i told you this

And i would do anything for you
to show you how much i adored you
but its over now
its too late to save our love
just promise me youll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star cause imma

[Evan C.]

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Dude you`re a retard,Space Bound is about girl,either real or imaginary one

What?Is LTWYL also about drugs?Cause if you look at it the way you look at it every song could be a metaphor.97 Bonnie and Clyde is not about killing his wife,its about killing his dog,but he just used that as a metaphor,ya dig?

No, I don't dig, you fucking moron.

The song begins

"We touch, I feel a rush, we clutch, it isn't much
But it's enough to make me wonder what's in store for us"

You don't 'clutch' another person. What things do you clutch in your palm, though? Loose change, sunflower seeds...and...um...PILLZ. "It's enough to make me wonder" refers to being introduced to the drugs in small amounts in the first place, which piqued his interest (so to speak). The start of any addiction is a positive experience which leads to more experimentation.

its lust its torcherous
you must be a socerous cause you just
did the impossible
game i trust dont play games itll be dangerous
if you fuck me over
cause if i get burnt imma show you what its like to hurt
cause i been treated like dirt before ya
and love is evil
spell it backwards ill show ya

And guess what? Drugs filled the void in his life after divorcing Kim. You don't really need female companionship when you pop 30 pills a day...he plays off the relationship with drugs as if it were a spouse. He got rid of one problem and picked up another.

why do we say that until we get that person that we thinks
gonna be that one and then once we get em its never the same
you want them when they dont want you
soon as they do feelings change
its not a contest and i aint on no conquest for no mate

Love/hate relationship with the drugs, anyone?

ill blow my brains in your lap
lay here and die in your arms
up to my knees and im bleedin
im tryin to stop you from leavin
you wont even listen so fuck it
im tryin to stop you from breathin
i put both hands on your throat
i sit on top of you squeezin
til i snap ya neck like a popsicle stick
aint no possible reason i could think of to let you walk up out this house
and let you live
tears streamed down both of my cheeks
then i let you just go and just give
and before i put that gun to my temple
i told you this

This verse is the drugs talking back to him..."after a year and six months" is the dead giveaway. "Walk out this house and let you live" is saying that when he was on drugs, he didn't have a life. He stayed in his house all day and didn't do anything, in other words, he wasn't living his life.


To deny the hints littered throughout this song and dismiss it as being about some random bitch is asinine. Basically, since he doesn't make it undeniably obvious, idiots like you don't get it. Fuck Eminem for trying to make his fans think once and a while, right?