(It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m gonna make it anyway.)
Sometimes I just feel like
Quittin I still might
Why do I put up this fight?
Why do I still write?
Sometimes it’s hard enough steal from the real life
Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics
And show these people what my level of skill’s like
But I’m still white
Sometimes I just hate life
Somethin ain’t right
Hit the breaklights
In case of the stage fright
Draw on the blank light
(Uhh, But if I fall, It ain’t my fault, Breakin eyeballs, My insides crawl)
And I clam up (Smash!)
I just slam shut
I just can’t do it
My whole manhood’s just been stripped
I’ve just been ripped
So I must been dipped
Or the bustin split
Man fuck this shit yo
I’m goin the fuck home
Rollin my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Rd.
Chorus
I’m a man
I’ma make a new plan
Time for me to stand up and travel new land
Time for me to just to take matters into my own hands
Once I’m over these tracks man
I’ma never look back
(8 Mile Rd.)
And I’m gone
I don’t like where I’m goin
Sorry mama I’ve grown
I must travel alone
Ain’t no followin no footsteps
I’m makin my own
Only way I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Rd.
Walkin these traintracks
Tryin to regain back the spirit I have
’Fore I go back to the same crap (SMASH!)
To the same plant
And the same pants
Tryin to chase rap
Gotta move A.S.A.P.
Get a new plan
Mama’s got a new man
Poor little baby sister
She don’t understand
Sits in front of the TV, bury’s her nose in the pad
And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand
While she colors her big brother, her mother, and dad
Ain’t no tellin what really goes on in her little head
Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had
But I keep runnin from somethin I never wanted so bad
Sometimes I get upset
Cuz I ain’t blew up yet
It’s like I grew up, but I aint grownin two nuts yet
Don’t gotta rap my step
Don’t got enough pep
The pressure’s too much man
I’m just tryin to do what’s best
And I try
Sit alone and I cry
Yo I won’t tell a lie
Not a moment goes by
That I don’t pray to the sky
Please I’m beggin you God
Please don’t let me be pigeon holdin on regular job
Yo I hope you can hear me hommie
Wherever you are
Yo I’m tellin you dog
I’m bailin this trailor tomorrow
Tell my mother I love her
Kiss baby sister goodbye
Say whenever you need me baby
I’m never too far
But yo, I gotta get out there
The only way I know
And I’ma do that for you
On the second that I blow
On everything I own
I’ll make it on my own
Off to work I go
Back to this 8 Mile Rd.
Chorus
Ya gotta live it to feel it
If you didn’t you wouldn’t get it
We’ll see what the big deal is
Why it wasn’t, it still is
To be walkin this border