It's okay, okay I'm gonna make it
Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' wit real Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill
And these 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 fright, drawin' a blank like
Uh, da di da , it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I clam up, I just shut I just do it, my whole manhood's
Just been stripped, I have just ripped So I then get, off this bus then split Man fuck this shit yo, I'm the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 road
I'm a man, I'ma make a new Time for me to just stand up, and new land for me to just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I right where I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I must alone following 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 back to the crap To the same plant, in the pants Tryin' to chase rap, move 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 colors until the gets dull in her hand
she colors her big brother, her mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her head Wish I could be the that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from something I 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 Don't got a rep my step, got enough pep The too much 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 moment by I don't 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 me homey wherever you are Yo I'm you dawg, I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say you need me baby I'm never to far
But yo I get out there the only way that I know And I'ma be for you the second that I blow On everything I own, make it on my own Off to I go, back to this 8 mile road
I'm a man, gotta make a new Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time for me to just take matters my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know 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 from this 8 mile road
You gotta it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Or see what the big deal is, why it wasn't it 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 everthing to me, my credibility You've never seen, heard, smelled, or met a MC Who's 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 work and serve MC's in the line But when it comes time, where do my punchlines go?
Who must I show to bust my Where must I go, who I know? Or am I just crab in the bucket 'Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit so it
Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin' to doubt I'm feelin' a little who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my ain't about shit At the salvation army tryin' to salvage an
And it's cold tryin' to travel this Plus I feel like I'm always in this battlin' mode My defenses are so up, and one thing I want Is from no one, this city is no fun
There is no sun, and so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm just being pulled From one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's to just make me wanna jump out of my skin
I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm doin' I blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the kettle so hot Sometimes my mouth just 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 falling no time I meet a new girl I can no play stupid or be immature
I got ingredient, all I need is the courage Like I already got the beat, all I need is the Got the urge, suddenly it's a a new burst of energy has occurred
Time to show these world leaders I'm three in the third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird I turn 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 matters into my own Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I must alone Ain't following no footsteps, I'm my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road