beautiful

《Beautiful》是專輯《Relapse》中由埃米納姆製作的歌曲，專輯中其它近二十首歌曲全由德瑞醫生負責。2005年8月，埃米納姆自爆患有睡眠性藥物依賴綜合症。他不想就此毀了自己的一生，於是努力戒毒。歌曲的第一段主歌是他在康復中心的床邊寫的，由於受到毒癮的影響，埃米納姆不能專註地完成其他部分；康復以後，埃米納姆才將歌曲完善。歌曲的錄製是在他戒毒初期神志不清的時候完成的。歌曲採樣自皇后樂隊與保羅·羅傑斯合唱的歌曲《Reaching Out》 。

Lately I've been hard to reach

I've been too long on my own

Everyone has a private world

Where they can be alone

Are you calling me are you trying to get through

Are you reaching out for me and I'm reaching out for you

I'm just so f**kin' depressed

I just can seem to get out this slump

If I could just get over this hump

But I need something to pull me out this dump

I took my bruises took my lumps

Fell down and I got right back up

But I need that spark to get psyched back up

And the right thing for me to pick that mic back up

I don't know how I pry away

And I ended up in this position I'm in

I starting to feel distant again

So I decided just to beat this pain

Up and tried to make an attempt to vent

But I just can't admit

Or come to grips with the fact that

I may be done with rap

I need a new outlet

I know some shits so hard to swallow

But I just can't sit back and wallow

In my own sorrow

But I know one fact

I'll be one tough act to follow

One tough act to follow

Copy

One tough act to follow

Here today gone tomorrow

But you have to walk a thousand miles

Walk my shoes just to see

What it's like to be me

All be you let's trade shoes

Just to see what I'd be like to

Feel your pain you feel mine

Go inside each other's mind

Just to see what we find

Looking shit through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo

They can all get f**ked Just stay true to you sOoOoo

Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo

They can all get f**ked Just stay true to you

I think I'm starting to lose my sense of humor

Everything is so tense and gloom

I almost feel like I gotta check the temperature in the room

Just as soon as I walk in

It's like all eyes on me

So I try to avoid any eye contact

Cause if I do that then it opens a door to conversation

Like I want that

I'm not looking for extra attention

I just want to be just like you

Blend in with the rest of the room

Maybe just point me to the closest restroom

I don't need f**king man servin'

Tryin to follow me around and wipe my ass

Laugh at every single joke I crack

And half of them ain't even funny like that

Ahh Marshall you're so funny man

You should be a comedian god damn

Unfortunately I am

But I just hide behind the tears of a clown

So why don't you all sit down

Listen to the tale I'm about to tell

Hell we don't have to trade our shoes

And you don't have to walk no thousand miles

Walk my shoes just to see

What it's like to be me

All be you let's trade shoes

Just to see what I'd be like to

Feel your pain you feel mine

Go inside each other's mind

Just to see what we find

Looking shit through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo

They can all get f**ked Just stay true to you sOoOoo

Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo

They can all get f**ked Just stay true to you sOoOoo

Nobody asked for life to deal us

With these bullshit hands with doubt

We have to take these cards ourselves

And flip them don't expect no help

Now I could have either just

Sat on my ass and pissed and moaned

But take this situation in which I'm placed in

And get up and get my own

I was never the type of kid

To wait but I know to unpack his bags

Never sat on the porch and hoped and prayed

For a dad to show up who never did

I just wanted to fit in

Every single place

Every school I went

I dreamed of being that cool kid

Even if it meant acting stupid

Aunt Edna always told me

Keep making that face till it gets stuck like that

Meanwhile I'm just standing there

Holding my tongue up trying to talk like this

Till I stuck my tungue on the frozen stop sign poll at 8 years old

I learned my lesson and cause I wasn't tryin to impress my friends no more

But I already told you my whole life story

Not just based on my description

Cause where you see it from where you're sitting

Is probably 110% different

I guess we would have to walk a mile

In each other's shoes at least

What size you where

I wear tens

Let's see if you can fit your feet

Walk my shoes just to see

What it's like to be me

All be you let's trade shoes

Just to see what I'd be like to

Feel your pain you feel mine

Go inside each other's mind

Just to see what we find

Looking shit through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo

They can all get f**ked Just stay true to you sOoOoo

Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo

They can all get f**ked Just stay true to you sOoOoo

Lately I've been hard to reach

I've been too long on my own

Everyone has a private world

Where they can be alone sOoOoo

Are you calling me are you trying to get through OoOo

Are you reaching out for me and I'm reaching out for you sOoOoo Oo Oo

Yea To my babies Stay strong Daddy will be soon

And to the rest of the world god gave you the shoes

That fit you so put em on and wear em

And be yourself man be proud of who you are

Even if it sounds corny

Don't ever let no one tell you you ain't beautiful

SOoOoo

《Beautiful》走的是流行旋律路線，自怨自艾並勵志憧憬，其歌詞性感，使聽眾直掉雞皮疙瘩。歌曲代表埃米納姆的完全回歸，優美的旋律響起后，他開始評估自己的嘻哈歌手生涯，並且也希望別人能夠理解他嘻哈世界之外的生活。

《Beautiful》是一首直白坦率的歌曲，埃米納姆以個人角度揭示了他的人生和內心深處的空虛抑鬱與無助。與其說這是一首歌，還不如說這是埃米納姆向傾聽者的一個傾訴，因為他情願和對方調換位置，相互體會各自心中的感受。都說埃米納姆是個玩世不恭、逢人就罵的反社會歌手，不過如果仔細傾聽歌詞，當中流露出的真實情感與無奈總會也讓聽者也感到感慨和共鳴。

《Beautiful》的MV由安東尼·曼德勒執導，在密歇根州底特律市拍攝，於2009年7月2日通過雅虎音樂發布。MV開頭通過文字介紹了密歇根和底特律曾經的輝煌。之後的MV中，埃米納姆漫步在密歇根中環火車站、前帕卡德工廠和老虎球場球場的廢墟。通過MV，埃米納姆向人們展示了曾經一度輝煌的汽車之城底特律的頹廢現狀。

在美國，《Beautiful》在發行的首周空降美國公告牌百強單曲榜第17名；在英國，歌曲在發行的首周空降空降英國單曲榜第38名，次周下滑一名。