It's okay, okay I'm gonna make it
Sometimes I feel like, quitting I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes hard enough just dealin' wit real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just mics
And show people what my level of skills like But I'm white, sometimes I just hate life Something ain't right, hit the brake Case of the stage fright, a blank like
Uh, da di da , it ain't my big eyeballs, my insides crawl And I clam up, I just shut I just can't do it, my whole
Just been stripped, I have just been So I must then get, off this bus then Man fuck this shit yo, I'm going the 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 Time for me to just take matters my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right 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
I'm walking these train tracks, tryin' to back The spirit I had fore I go to the same crap To the same plant, in the pants Tryin' to chase rap, gotta ASAP
And get a new plan, got a new man Poor baby sister, she don't understand in front of the T.V, buries her nose in the pad And just until the crayon gets dull in her hand
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 that one of us had But I keep runnin' from something I never so bad!
Sometimes I get upset, 'cause I blew up yet It's like I up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet Don't got a rep my step, don't got 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 moment by That I don't to the sky, please I'm beggin' You, God Please don't let me be pigeon holed in no job
Yo I hope you can me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg, I'm this trailer tomorrow Tell my I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say you need me baby I'm never to far
But yo I gotta get out the only 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, back to 8 mile road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just up, and travel new land Time for me to take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right I'm going Sorry I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't following no footsteps, I'm my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 mile road
You live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Or see what the big is, why it wasn't it still is To be walkin' this line of Detroit city limits It's different, a certain significance, a certificate
Of authenticity, you've never even But it's to me, it's my credibility You've seen, heard, smelled, or met a real MC incredible on the same pedestal as me
But yet still unsigned, having a time Sit on the porch wit all my friends and dumb rhymes Go to and serve MC's in the lunch line But when it comes crunch time, do my punchlines go?
Who must I to bust my flow? Where I go, who must I know? Or am I just crab in the bucket 'Cause I ain't no luck with this little Rabbit so fuck it
Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm to doubt shit I'm feelin' a skeptical who I hang out with I look a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit At the salvation army to salvage an outfit
And cold tryin' to travel this road Plus I feel I'm always stuck in this battlin' mode My defenses are so up, and one I don't want Is from no one, this city is no fun
There is no sun, and so dark Sometimes I like I'm just being pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends It's to just make me wanna jump out of my skin
Sometimes I like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm doin' I blow, my head is a stove top I explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my mouth 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 next time I a new girl I can no longer play or be immature
I got ingredient, all I need is the courage I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new burst of energy has
Time to show these free world leaders I'm in the third I am no scared now, I'm free as a bird Then I turn and cross the median curb Hit the and all you see is a blur from 8 mile road
I'm a man, gotta 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 man I'ma never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I right where I'm going mama I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't following no footsteps, I'm my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 mile road