Space Bound -- Eminem

• Song: Space Bound
• Artist: Eminem
• Album: Recovery
• Rating: 4 Stars

Most of Eminem's best songs have a slow beat and talk about more serious personal problems, and Space Bound is no exception.  A song from his 2010 album, Recovery, Space Bound discusses the difficulties of opening up to someone and the heartbreak of a breakup.

 In Space Bound, a man meets a woman, and as soon as he does, he wonders what a relationship with her would be like.  He has been hurt in relationships before but she has gained his trust.  He has been living alone for a long time, and he chose that life.  It has been an emotionless, cold, existance.  He loves her, and tells her not to toy with his emotions because he would not be able to handle it.  He will do whatever he must to be with her, but he is still worried that it will end, as his relationships always have before.  After 18 months, she breaks up with him, and he is crushed.  He begs her not to leave, but she will not listen.  He had let down his guard, and, once again, he has been hurt.  He tries to kill her, but cannont.  He tells her that he would have done anything for her, that he loved her, and asks her to think of him wheneer she sees the stars.  He then committs suicide.

Space Bound has a depressed sound created by an acoustic guitar combined with a slow and steady foreground beat.  This sound is complimented by other instruments which create a tear-drop-like sound.  THe chorus of the song is performed in a high-pitched futuristic tone which seperates itself from the other lyrics to describe the man's feeling for the woman.  The bridge of the song has a sound of difinity and finality which excellently completes the song.  Space Bound is a wonderfully performed and well-excecuted song seemingly destined for singleship.