It's okay, okay I'm make it anyway
Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still it's hard enough just dealin' wit real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill
And show people what my level of skills like But I'm still white, I just hate life Something ain't right, hit the lights Case of the stage fright, drawin' a like
Uh, da di da , it my fault Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I clam up, I just shut I just can't do it, my whole
been stripped, I have just been ripped So I must then get, off this bus then Man fuck this shit yo, I'm the fuck home World on my as I run back to this 8 mile road
I'm a man, I'ma 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 these tracks man I'ma never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right 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, to regain back The I had fore I go back to the same crap To the same plant, in the pants Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move
And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little sister, she don't understand in front of the T.V, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon 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 keep runnin' from 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 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 no lie, not a moment goes by I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin' 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 you dawg, I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say whenever you me baby I'm never to far
But yo I gotta get out there the way that I know And I'ma be back for you the that 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 Time for me to just stand up, and travel new 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 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 know how to escape from this 8 mile
You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you get it Or see what the big is, why it wasn't it still is To be walkin' this line of Detroit city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate
Of authenticity, you've even seen But everthing to me, it's my credibility You've seen, heard, smelled, or met a real MC Who's incredible on the pedestal as me
But yet still unsigned, having a time Sit on the porch wit all my friends and kick dumb Go to work and serve MC's in the line But when it comes crunch time, do my punchlines go?
Who must I to bust my flow? Where must I go, who I know? Or am I another crab in the bucket 'Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little 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 like I'm always stuck in battlin' mode My defenses are so up, and one thing I want Is pity no one, this city is no fun
There is no sun, and so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm being pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends It's enough to just me wanna jump out of my skin
Sometimes I feel a robot, sometimes 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 for me to U-turn Yo it takes one time for me to get burned Ain't no falling no next time I a new girl I can no play stupid or be immature
I got ingredient, all I need is the courage I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, it's a surge a new burst of energy has occurred
Time to show these free world I'm three in the third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird Then I and cross 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 just up, and travel new land Time for me to just take matters into my own Once I'm over these man I'ma never look back
8 road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm going Sorry I'm grown, I must travel alone following no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road