It's okay, it's I'm make it anyway
Sometimes I feel like, quitting I still might Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's enough just dealin' wit real life I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics
And show these people what my level of skills But I'm still white, sometimes I just life Something ain't right, hit the brake of the stage fright, drawin' a blank like
Uh, da di da , it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my insides And I clam up, I slam shut I can't do it, my whole manhood's
Just been stripped, I just been ripped 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, I'ma make a new 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 tracks man I'ma look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm 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 this 8 mile
I'm walking these train tracks, tryin' to back The spirit I had fore I go back to the same To the same plant, in the same Tryin' to chase rap, 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 the crayon gets dull 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 daddy that one of us had But I keep runnin' from something I never so bad!
I get upset, 'cause I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I grow 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 pray to the sky, please I'm beggin' You, God Please don't let me be pigeon holed in no job
Yo I you can hear me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg, I'm bailin' trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, baby sister goodbye Say you need me baby I'm never to far
But yo I gotta get out there the only way I know And I'ma be back for you the second that I On everything I own, I'll it on my own Off to I go, back to this 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 just take matters my own hands Once I'm over 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 travel Ain't following no footsteps, I'm my own Only way that I know how to from this 8 mile road
You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you get it Or see what the big deal is, why it wasn't it is To be this boarder line of Detroit city limits It's different, it's a certain significance, a
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, having a time Sit on the porch wit all my friends and kick dumb Go to work and serve in the lunch line But when it comes time, where do my punchlines go?
Who I show to bust my flow? must I go, who must I know? Or am I another crab in the bucket 'Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit so it
I need a new outlet, I'm startin' to doubt shit I'm feelin' a skeptical who I hang out with I like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit At the salvation army tryin' to salvage an
And it's cold to travel this road Plus I like I'm always stuck in this battlin' mode My defenses are so up, and one thing I don't Is pity no one, this city is no fun
There is no sun, and it's so 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 just blow, my is a stove top I just explode, the gets so hot Sometimes my mouth just overloads the gas I don't got
But I've learned, it's time for me to Yo it only takes one for me to get burned Ain't no falling no next I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be
I got every ingredient, all I need is the I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, it's a surge Suddenly a new burst of has occurred
Time to show these free world leaders I'm three in the I am no longer now, I'm free as a bird Then I and cross over the median curb Hit the and all you see is a blur from 8 mile road
I'm a man, make a new plan for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time for me to just take into my own hands Once I'm over tracks 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 travel alone following no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road