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