It's okay, it's I'm make it anyway
Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I might Why do I put up this fight, why do I write Sometimes hard enough just dealin' wit real life Sometimes I jump on stage and just kill mics
And show these people my level of skills like But I'm still white, sometimes I just life Something ain't right, hit the lights Case of the stage fright, drawin' a blank
Uh, da di da , it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my insides And I clam up, I just slam I just do it, my whole manhood's
Just been stripped, I have just ripped So I must then get, off this bus split Man fuck this shit yo, I'm the fuck home on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 mile road
I'm a man, I'ma a new plan 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 I'ma look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I must alone Ain't no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 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 to chase rap, gotta move ASAP
And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she understand Sits in front of the T.V, buries her in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets 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 be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep from something I never wanted so bad!
Sometimes I get upset, I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I ain't 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 tell no lie, not a goes by That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm You, God Please don't let me be pigeon 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 me baby I'm never to far
But yo I gotta get out the only way that I know And I'ma be back for you the second I blow On everything I own, I'll it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 mile
I'm a man, gotta make a new 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 mile road, and I'm gone, I right where I'm going Sorry I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't 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 didn't you 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 significance, a certificate
Of authenticity, you've never even But it's to me, it's my credibility 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 porch wit all my friends and kick dumb Go to work and serve in the lunch line But when it comes crunch time, do my punchlines go?
Who must I show to my flow? Where I go, who must I know? Or am I another crab in the bucket 'Cause I ain't havin' no luck this little Rabbit so fuck it
Maybe I a new outlet, I'm startin' to doubt shit I'm feelin' a little who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't shit At the salvation army tryin' to an outfit
And it's cold to travel this road Plus I feel like I'm always in this battlin' mode My defenses are so up, and one thing I don't Is pity from no one, city is no fun
There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I feel like I'm just pulled apart each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's to just make me wanna jump out of my skin
Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just not What I'm doin' I just blow, my head is a top I just explode, the kettle 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 one time for me to get burned Ain't no falling no next time I a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be
I got ingredient, all I need is the courage Like I already got the beat, all I is the words Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new burst of energy has
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 turn and cross the median curb Hit the and all you see is a blur from 8 mile road
I'm a man, gotta a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and 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 where I'm going mama I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road