It's okay, okay I'm make it anyway
Sometimes I feel like, quitting I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes it's hard enough just 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, sometimes I just life Something ain't right, hit the brake Case of the stage fright, drawin' a like
Uh, da di da , it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I clam up, I just shut I just can't do it, my manhood's
Just stripped, I have just been ripped So I must then get, off this bus then Man fuck this shit yo, I'm going the fuck World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 mile
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time for me to just matters into my own hands I'm over these 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 that I know how to escape from this 8 mile
I'm these train tracks, tryin' to regain back The spirit I had 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 baby sister, she don't Sits in front of the T.V, her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her
she colors her big brother, her mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what really on in her little head I could be the daddy that neither one of us had But I runnin' from something I never wanted so bad!
I get upset, 'cause I ain't blew up yet It's like I up, but I ain't 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 no lie, not a moment goes by That I pray to the sky, please I'm beggin' You, God Please don't let me be holed in no regular job
Yo I hope you can hear me wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg, I'm bailin' trailer tomorrow Tell my I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say whenever you need me baby I'm to far
But yo I gotta get out there the only way I know And be back for you the second that I blow On I own, I'll make it on my own Off to work I go, back to 8 mile road
I'm a man, gotta make a new Time for me to stand 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 road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm going Sorry I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't following no footsteps, I'm my own Only way that I know how to escape from 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 it still is To be walkin' this line of Detroit city limits It's different, it's a certain significance, a
Of authenticity, never even seen But it's everthing to me, it's my never seen, heard, smelled, or met a real MC Who's on the same pedestal as me
But yet unsigned, having a rough time Sit on the wit all my friends and kick dumb rhymes Go to work and serve MC's in the line But when it comes crunch time, where do my go?
Who must I to bust my flow? Where must I go, who I know? Or am I just another crab in the 'Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit so it
Maybe I a new outlet, I'm startin' to doubt shit I'm feelin' a skeptical who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't shit At the salvation army tryin' to salvage an
And it's tryin' to travel this road Plus I feel like I'm always stuck in this mode My defenses are so up, and one thing I want Is pity from no one, this is no fun
is no sun, and it's so dark Sometimes I feel I'm just being pulled apart each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to 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 that I got
But I've learned, it's time for me to 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 stupid or be
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 a new burst 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 over the median curb Hit the burbs and all you see is a blur 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 never look back
8 road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I travel alone Ain't no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile