It's okay, it's I'm gonna it anyway
Sometimes I feel like, quitting I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I write Sometimes it's hard just dealin' 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, I just hate life ain't right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, drawin' a blank
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 been ripped So I must then get, off this bus split Man fuck this yo, I'm going the fuck home 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 up, and travel new land Time for me to just take into 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 following no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I know how to from this 8 mile road
I'm walking these train tracks, to regain back The spirit I had I go back to the same crap To the plant, in the same pants to chase rap, gotta move ASAP
And get a new plan, got a new man little baby sister, she don't understand Sits in front of the T.V, her nose in the pad And just colors the crayon gets dull in her hand
she colors her big brother, her mother 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 runnin' from something I never wanted so bad!
Sometimes I get upset, 'cause I 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 much man, I'm 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 let me be pigeon holed in no regular job
Yo I hope you can me homey 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 the only way that I know And I'ma be 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 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 look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm Sorry I'm grown, I must travel alone following no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I know how to from this 8 mile road
You gotta live it to feel it, you you wouldn't get it Or see the big deal is, why it wasn't it still is To be walkin' this boarder line of Detroit limits It's different, a certain significance, a certificate
Of authenticity, you've never even 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, having a 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 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 little Rabbit so it
Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm to doubt shit I'm feelin' a skeptical who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes about shit At the salvation army tryin' to an outfit
And it's cold tryin' to this road Plus I feel like I'm 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 Sometimes I feel like I'm 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 feel like a robot, sometimes I know not I'm doin' I just blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the gets so hot Sometimes my just overloads the gas that I don't got
But I've learned, time for me to U-turn Yo it only takes one for me to get burned Ain't no no next time I meet a new girl I can no play stupid or be immature
I got every ingredient, all I need is the Like I already got the beat, all I need is the Got the urge, suddenly 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 free as a Then I turn and over the median curb Hit the burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 mile
I'm a man, gotta make a new 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 where 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 escape from this 8 road