It's okay, okay I'm gonna make it
Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I might Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's hard just dealin' wit real life Sometimes I wanna jump on and just kill mics
And show these people what my level of skills But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate Something ain't right, hit the brake Case of the fright, drawin' a blank like
Uh, da di da , it my fault big eyeballs, my insides crawl And I clam up, I just shut I just can't do it, my whole
Just been stripped, I just been ripped So I then get, off this bus then split Man this shit yo, I'm going the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 mile
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new 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 travel Ain't 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 I had fore I go back to the same crap To the plant, in the same pants Tryin' to rap, gotta move ASAP
And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she don't Sits in of the T.V, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon dull in her hand
While she colors her big brother, her and dad Ain't no tellin' what goes on in her little head I could be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' something I never wanted so bad!
Sometimes I get upset, 'cause I ain't up yet It's I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet Don't got a rep my step, don't got pep The pressures too much man, I'm just tryin' to do what's
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 don't let me be pigeon holed in no job
Yo I hope you can hear me wherever you are Yo I'm you dawg, I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye 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 for you the second that 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 make a new Time for me to just stand up, and travel new 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 mama I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't following no footsteps, I'm 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 deal is, why it it still is To be walkin' this boarder line of Detroit city different, it's a certain significance, a certificate
Of authenticity, never even seen But it's everthing to me, my credibility You've 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 friends and kick rhymes Go to work and serve MC's in the lunch But when it crunch time, where do my punchlines go?
Who I show to bust my flow? Where I go, who must I know? Or am I just crab in the bucket 'Cause I ain't havin' no with this little Rabbit so fuck it
I need 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 tryin' to salvage an outfit
And it's tryin' to travel this road Plus I like I'm always stuck in this battlin' mode My are so up, and one thing I don't want Is pity no one, this city is no fun
There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I feel like I'm just being pulled each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to make me wanna jump out of my skin
Sometimes I feel like a robot, 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 overloads the gas that I don't got
But I've learned, time for me to U-turn Yo it only one time 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 is the courage I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new burst of energy has
Time to show these world 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 and all you see is a blur from 8 mile road
I'm a man, gotta make a new Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time for me to take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look back
8 mile road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm Sorry mama I'm grown, I travel alone following no footsteps, I'm making my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road