Love The Way You Lie (feat. Rihanna)

It's about two people who meet and fall in love, however, as time goes on, they start to resent each other and the man becomes physically abusive. The woman takes it at first, but then she tries to leave him. He promises her that he'll never hurt her again and he'll try to control his temper, but he's lying. He says that if she ever tried to leave again, he'd kill her. The woman knows that this is all just a lie, but she keeps going back to him because she loves him.

I think this song is especially powerful since Rihanna knows exactly what she is singing, due to her relationship with Chris Brown.

Not only does Rihanna know what she's singing about here, but does no one remember Eminem and Kim? This is as much about them as it is Rihanna and Chris. Apt people for this song.

I think this song works on two different levels and perspectives.

One one hand, the song reads like a realtime story. It is unfolding with every verse Eminem sings. His lines are describing what's happening right now, and Rihanna recaps the theme of the song with her chorus. It's an abusive relationship that she is unable/unwilling to get out of. Their relationship is spiralling downwards, and at the end he makes a threat of what will happen if she leaves again. And we're left to wonder what DOES happen.

But if you look at it another way, we find out what happens. All of Eminem's verses are a flashback of the events leading up to that threat, which is the last thing that happens before the song starts. This is what's happening right now:

"Just gonna stand there and watch me burn But that's alright because I like the way it hurts Just gonna stand there and hear me cry But that's alright because I love the way you lie"

He is literally standing there, watching her burn and hearing her cry, and thinking about everything that happened leading up to this. Rihanna's lines become the present.

Listen to the song back to back. The first time picture Eminem's verses as the present. The second time, picture his verses as the past. And in between imagine that she tried to leave again and he acted out his threat. This perspective certainly makes the song a lot darker.

Not sure if that makes sense to anyone, it looks a little confusing when I put it in writing...

Great song, obviously about a both verbal and physically abusive relationship and how it seems the guy will say anything to keep his girl with him even though he's just spewing lies. Eminem is one of the few rappers I have strong respect for, he keeps it real. I adore the last set of verses the most, awesome lyrics and it makes the song even better with Rihanna singing the chorus considering her experience with abuse.

There is domestic violence where the abuser who has no remorse and the victim, who at 1st thinks it is love but later realizes the other person is just abusive & really wants to leave the other but is afraid of what the other will do to them or their children if they do leave.. then there is the other..

and to me this is what Eminem is addressing, the dynamic of a relationship when 2 people have the most TOXIC LOVE imaginable for one another. They victimize the other person as well as themselves. They are both victims as well as guilty of being literally crazy for one another. I hope people dont have to experience this type of relationship but if you do I believe you go through it once. It's hard to truly understand unless you have been through it but the song as well as the video paints the picture of the turmoil that the extremity of emotions and how it is handled effect the people in these relationships. What they go through and what happens when they have no control of those emotions. You see what they are willing to endure for one another because no matter how bad it gets nothing seems worst then leaving each other. Their destructive relationship is a contradiction of what love should be but they truly are madly in love, Its heartbreaking...

• "And I love it the more that I suffer. I suffocate and right before I'm about to drown she resuscitates me. She fucking hates me and I love it."
• "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn. But that's alright because I like the way it hurts"
• "It's so insane 'cause when it's going good, it's going great... But when it's bad, it's awful. I feel so ashamed"
• "You're the same as me. When it comes to love you're just as blinded. Maybe our relationship isn't as crazy as it seems, maybe that's what happens when a tornado meets a volcano. All I know is I love you too much to walk away though"

those are the verses that really hit home when I hear this song. I have to say the hardest thing about being in that relationship was realizing that even though we wanted to to be together we needed to be apart. He showed me how much he loved me by leaving me. I knew it was killing him just as much as it was killing me.. Maybe years from now we can try again or maybe not but, one thing is for certain I dont ever doubt the depth of his love for me.

Not Eminems' best song, but it's okay.

I think it's basically about a troubled relationship. Saying things you don't mean when you're mad, doing things you don't mean to because you're mad beacause it's in the heat of the moment. You love the person so much so you say whatever you can to make them come back, to make them stay. You say that it'll never happen again, but deep down you know it will but you just want to say whatever you can to prevent them from leaving. Then the cycle continues...

I can't stop listening to this. I personally think this is Em's greatest song yet.

This song is a powerful reality of what many women go through. It is a viscous cycle of violence that often originated with trauma in childhood (but doesn't have to). I counsel women who have been abused and they often will pick out men who will abuse them again. There are many factors to it, but one major aspect is if they have not worked through and grieved the pain of the abuse they are destined to repeat it. They have no respect for themselves, thus seek out the creeps who will confirm their low self concept. Their tolerance for taking compliments is often amazingly low, where their tolerance for taking criticism is amazingly high. I had one client save voicemails of her ex-boyfriend cussing her out and calling her names, whereas when she got a nice card from a friend she would quickly throw it away.

If you are finding yourself in this cycle, I plead with you to find some help. Someone who can gently lead you through what you are doing to yourself. You are worth so much more, and there really is help.

I think your all wrong. I think its about a disfunctional relationship, but they both live for it. They have so much passion whether its with love or when they fight. but they cant leave each other because they feed off it. SO they just sit back and watch them destroy each other. And regardless of how much they both hurt each other, they both keep coming back for more, cause like he said when its good its great, but when its bad its awful.

best song ever so much love and sadness