It's okay, it's I'm gonna it anyway
Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I still Why do I put up this fight, why do I write Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' wit real Sometimes I wanna jump on and just kill mics
And show these people my level of skills like But I'm still white, sometimes I just life ain't right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, drawin' a like
Uh, da di da , it my fault Great big eyeballs, my insides And I up, I just slam shut I can't do it, my whole manhood's
Just been stripped, I have been ripped So I must then get, off bus then split Man fuck this shit yo, I'm going the fuck on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 mile road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time for me to just take into my own hands Once I'm these tracks man I'ma never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I must alone following no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 mile road
I'm walking these train tracks, to regain back The spirit I had fore I go back to the same To the same plant, in the pants Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move
And get a new plan, got a new man little baby sister, she don't understand Sits in front of the T.V, buries her in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets in her hand
While she colors her big brother, her and dad Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her little Wish I could be the that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from something I never so bad!
Sometimes I get upset, I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I ain't me two nuts yet got a rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressures too man, I'm just tryin' to do what's 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, I'm beggin' You, God Please don't let me be pigeon in no regular job
Yo I hope you can hear me wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg, I'm this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss sister goodbye Say whenever you need me I'm never to far
But yo I gotta get out there the only way that I And I'ma be back for you the second that I On everything I own, make it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 mile
I'm a man, make a new plan for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time for me to take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these 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 Ain't following no footsteps, I'm my own Only way that I know how to escape from 8 mile road
You gotta live it to it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Or see the big deal is, why it wasn't it still is To be walkin' this line of Detroit city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate
Of authenticity, you've even seen But everthing to me, it's my credibility You've never seen, heard, smelled, or met a 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 comes time, where do my punchlines go?
Who must I show to bust my Where must I go, who I know? Or am I just another in the bucket 'Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit so it
Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin' to shit I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes about shit At the salvation army to salvage an outfit
And it's tryin' to travel this road I feel like I'm always 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 Sometimes I feel like I'm just being apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends It's enough to just me wanna jump out of my skin
Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just not What I'm doin' I just blow, my head is a top I explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my mouth just overloads the gas 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 next time I meet a new I can no play stupid or be immature
I got every ingredient, all I is the courage 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 leaders I'm three in the third I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a I turn and cross over the median curb Hit the burbs and all you see is a from 8 mile road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time for me to take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these man I'ma never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I 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 from this 8 road