Eminem: Love the Way You Lie Meaning

Song Released: 2010

Covered By: Skylar Grey

Love the Way You Lie Lyrics

[Chorus - Rihanna]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn
Well that's all right because I like the way it hurts
Just gonna stand there and hear me cry
Well that's all right because I love the way you lie
I love the way you lie

[Eminem -...

1. anonymous

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   Jun 3rd 2011 !⃝

   Its about hobo John
2. anonymous

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   May 9th 2011 !⃝

   Maybe this song is about the higher ups and how they manipulate them... Maybe they are singing that song to the higher ups because of their now messed up lives... I don't know...
3. anonymous

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   May 9th 2011 !⃝

   I think this song is about abusive relationships in general. Rihanna says she "likes the way it hurts" and "loves the way you lie" Which is obviously sarcasm. Eminem is abusive towards Rihanna and she wants to leave but loves him so she doesn't. Eminem doesn't like how abusive he is, but feels powerful so continues to act like this.
4. anonymous

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   Mar 17th 2011 !⃝

   The song talk about em an his feelings about the girl.

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
5. anonymous

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   Jan 12th 2011 !⃝

   This song is more about bringing domestic violence more out in the open. That's why Rhianna did this song, to play the victim and Eminem represents the abuser. The chorus is supposed to make you stop and think about what your saying and how crazy it sounds. How could you like being hit and how it hurts and who loves to be lied to. Then when Eminem says "Don't you here sincerity in my voice when I talk? Told you this is my fault look me in the eyeball. Next time I'm pissed I'll aim my fists at the drywall. Next time, there won't be no next time. I apologize even though I know its lies." "I'm tired of the games I just want her back. I know I'm a liar. If she ever tries to f***ing leave again, I'm gonna tie her to the bed and set this house on fire." he's inside the abusers head saying one thing (he's sorry and it won't happen again) but thinking something completely different (if she tries to leave again I'll kill her). So again it's just a song to make women and men stop making excuses and get out of the abusive situations they are in.
6. anonymous

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   Jan 3rd 2011 !⃝

   this song represents a relationship, and its ups and downs. but it represents also a intense relation. 'The Crystals' once wrote 'He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)' and I think it is the same stop. Most of the people would think 'oh noo, thats domestic violenc!' but what eminem means is that, you both love eachother so much that when one of you do something wrong that hurts the other one you cant just stay calm, you cant just stay indifferent. you love so freaking much the other one that you just lose your head. if you're trying to understand better this song go search for the music 'he hit me (and it felt like a kiss) from the Crystals
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   Dec 29th 2010 !⃝

   I believe the song is talking about relationships in general. A relationship doesn't have to physically absuive to be abusive, there is verbal and emotional abuse. Emotional abuse I think is the greatest abuse. You can recover from a physical attack but when the attack goes after your emotions it hurts, and when I person promises to change it triggers your emotions and you make the decision to work it out even though your brain may be telling you to run the other way.
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   Dec 5th 2010 !⃝

   This song is describing the passionate highs and lows of an abusive relationship. How each individual feeds off of eachothers' rage. "Tie her to the bed and set this house on fire", has a dual meaning. The non-literal meaning is referring to the passionate make up sex.
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   Aug 3rd 2010 !⃝

   I believe that this song is about a couple who is having trouble keeping their relationship together. They love each other very much, but the husband(played by eminem)is abusive to the wife(played by rihanna.) she tries to leave him, but he doesn't let her and says he will change and never be abusive again, but he never follows up with his promise
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    Jul 21st 2010 !⃝

    This song, featuring Rhianna, is about the unstable relationship between Eminem and his wife. It says in this sing "here we go again, running back," clearly referencing the fact that Em and his wife have been in an on-off relationship. Eminem also references that he struck his wife, and he shows his signs of apology and remorse to that fact. "Next time I'll aim my fist at the drywall" clearly shows his remorse. The lyric "I saw her leaving out the window I guess that's why they call it window pain" plays with words. He refers to a window PANE, but changes the meaning of the word to PAIN, showing the pain he felt as his wife left him. Eminem also shows a lot of anger towards the end of the song, specifically the last line of Eminem's part. "If she ever leave again I'll strap her to the bed and light this house on fire" very clearly shows, for the first time in the song, Eminem's extreme anger for his wife's choices.

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