It's okay, okay I'm gonna it anyway
Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I still Why do I put up fight, why do I still write it's hard enough just dealin' wit real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and kill mics
And these people what my level of skills like But I'm white, sometimes I just hate life Something ain't right, hit the lights Case of the fright, drawin' a blank like
Uh, da di da , it my fault Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I clam up, I slam shut I just can't do it, my whole
been stripped, I have just been ripped So I must then get, off this bus split Man this shit yo, I'm going the fuck 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 matters into my own hands I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm mama I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 mile road
I'm walking train tracks, tryin' to regain back The I had fore I go back to the same crap To the same plant, in the same Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move
And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little sister, she don't understand Sits in front of the T.V, buries her 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 on in her little head Wish I could be the that neither 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 Don't got a rep my step, 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 don't pray to the sky, please I'm You, God Please let me be pigeon holed 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 baby sister Say you need me baby 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 I blow On I own, I'll make it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 mile
I'm a man, gotta a new plan for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time for me to just matters into my own hands Once I'm over tracks 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 travel alone Ain't following no footsteps, I'm my own Only way I know 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 boarder line of Detroit city It's different, a certain significance, a certificate
Of authenticity, never even seen But it's everthing to me, it's my You've never seen, heard, smelled, or met a MC Who's incredible on the same as me
But yet still unsigned, a rough time Sit on the wit all my friends and kick dumb rhymes Go to work and MC's in the lunch line But when it crunch time, where do my punchlines go?
Who must I show to bust my Where must I go, who must I Or am I just another in the bucket 'Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this Rabbit so fuck it
Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin' to shit I'm a little skeptical who I hang out with I like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit At the salvation army to salvage an outfit
And it's tryin' to travel this road Plus I feel I'm always stuck in this battlin' mode My defenses are so up, and one thing I don't Is pity from no one, this is no fun
There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I feel like I'm just being apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends It's enough to make me wanna jump out of my skin
Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I know not What I'm I just blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the kettle so hot Sometimes my mouth just overloads the gas that I 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 longer play or be immature
I got ingredient, all I need is the courage Like I already got the beat, all I is the words Got the urge, suddenly a surge Suddenly a new burst of energy has
Time to show these free leaders I'm three in the third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird Then I turn and cross the median curb Hit the burbs and all you see is a blur 8 mile road
I'm a man, gotta a new plan Time for me to just up, and travel new land Time for me to just matters into my own hands Once I'm over tracks man I'ma never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know where I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I must travel following no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 mile road