It's okay, okay I'm make it anyway
Sometimes I just feel like, I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes hard enough just dealin' wit real life Sometimes I jump on stage and just kill mics
And show these people what my of skills like But I'm still white, I just hate life Something ain't right, hit the lights Case of the stage fright, a blank like
Uh, da di da , it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my insides And I up, I just slam shut I just can't do it, my whole
been stripped, I have just been ripped So I must then get, off this bus then Man fuck this yo, I'm going the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run back to 8 mile road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to stand up, and travel new land for me to just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm Sorry I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile
I'm walking train tracks, tryin' to regain back The spirit I had fore I go to the same crap To the same plant, in the pants to chase rap, gotta move ASAP
And get a new plan, got a new man Poor baby sister, she don't understand Sits in of the T.V, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her
While she colors her big brother, her and dad Ain't no tellin' what goes on in her little head Wish I could be the daddy neither one of us had But I keep from something I never wanted so bad!
Sometimes I get upset, I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I grow me two nuts yet Don't got a rep my step, got enough pep The pressures too much man, I'm just tryin' to do best
And I try, sit and I cry Yo I won't tell no lie, not a goes by That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm You, God Please don't let me be holed in no regular job
Yo I hope you can me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg, I'm this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister Say whenever you need me I'm never to far
But yo I gotta get out there the way that I know And I'ma be back for you the that I blow On everything I own, make it on my own Off to work I go, to this 8 mile road
I'm a man, gotta a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time for me to just take matters into my own Once I'm these tracks man I'ma never look back
8 road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I must alone following no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I know how to escape this 8 mile road
You gotta live it to feel it, you you wouldn't get it Or see what the big deal is, why it it still is To be walkin' this line of Detroit city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate
Of authenticity, you've never even But it's everthing to me, it's my You've seen, heard, smelled, or met a real MC Who's incredible on the pedestal as me
But yet still unsigned, a rough time Sit on the porch wit all my and kick dumb rhymes Go to and serve MC's in the lunch line But when it crunch time, where do my punchlines go?
Who must I show to my flow? Where I go, who must I know? Or am I just another in the bucket 'Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little so fuck it
Maybe I a new outlet, I'm startin' to doubt shit I'm feelin' a little who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't shit At the salvation tryin' to salvage an outfit
And it's cold tryin' to travel this Plus I feel like I'm always stuck in this battlin' My defenses are so up, and one thing I want Is pity no one, this city is no fun
There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I feel I'm just being pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends It's enough to just me wanna jump out of my skin
I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm doin' I just blow, my head is a top I just explode, the gets so hot Sometimes my just overloads the gas that I don't got
But learned, it's time for me to U-turn Yo it takes one time for me to get burned Ain't no falling no time I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be
I got every ingredient, all I need is the Like I already got the beat, all I is the words Got the urge, it's a surge Suddenly a new of energy has occurred
Time to show these free world leaders I'm in the third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird Then I turn and cross over the median Hit the burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just up, and travel new land Time for me to just matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never back
8 road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm going Sorry I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I know how to escape this 8 mile road