8 Mile Road Lyrics

8 Mile Road lyrics

It's okay, it's okay, nothin' can get in the way



Sometimes, I just feel like quitting, I still might

Why do I put up this fight? Why do I still write?

Sometimes, it's hard enough just dealin' wit real life

Sometimes, I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics



And show these people what my level of skills like

But I'm still white, sometimes, I just hate life

Something ain't right, hit the brake lights

Case of the stage fright, drawin' a blank like



Uh, da, da, da, da, it ain't my fault

Great big eyeballs, my insides crawl

And I clam up, I just slam shut

I just can't do it, my whole manhood's



Just been stripped, I have just been ripped

So, I must then get, off the bus then split

Man, fuck this shit, yo, I'm going the fuck home

World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 mile road



I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan

Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

Once I'm over these tracks, man, I'ma never look back

  (8 mile road)



And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going

Sorry Mama, I'm grown, I must travel alone

Ain't follow no footsteps, I'm making my own

Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile road



I'm walking these train tracks, tryin' to regain back

The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same crap

To the same plant, in the same pants

Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move ASAP



And get a new plan, Mommas got a new man

Poor little baby sister, she don't understand

Sits in front of the TV, buries 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 something I never wanted so bad



Sometimes, I get upset 'cause I ain't blew up yet

It's like I grew up but I ain't grow me two nuts yet

Don't got a rep my step, don't got enough pep

The pressures 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 no 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 holed in no regular job



Yo, I hope you can hear me, homey, wherever you are

Yo, I'm tellin' you, dawg, I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow

Tell my mother, I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye

Say whenever you need me, baby, I'm never to far



But yo, I gotta get out there, the only way that I know

And I'ma be back for you 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 road



I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan

Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

Once I'm over these tracks, man, I'ma never look back

  (8 mile road)



And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going

Sorry Mama, I'm grown, I must travel alone

Ain't follow no footsteps, I'm making my own

Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile road



You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't, you wouldn't get it

Or see what the big deal is, why it wasn't? It still is

To be walkin' this boarder line of Detroit city limits

It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificate of authenticity



You've never even seen

But it's everything to me, it's my credibility

You've never seen, heard, smelled, or met a real MC

Who's incredible up on the same pedestal as me



But yet still unsigned, having a rough time

Sit on the porch wit all my friends and kick dumb rhymes

Go to work and serve MC's in the lunch line

But when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go?



Who must I show to bust my flow?

Where must I go? Who must I know?

Or am I just another crab in the bucket?

'Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little rabbit, so fuck it



Maybe, I need a new outlet, I'm startin' to doubt shit

I'm feelin' a little skeptical, who I hang out with

I look like a bum, yo, my clothes ain't about shit

At the salvation army, tryin' to salvage an outfit



And it's cold, tryin' to travel this road

Plus, I feel like I'm always stuck in this battlin' mode

My defenses are so up and one thing I don't want

Is pity from no one, this city is no fun



There is no sun and it's so dark

Sometimes, I feel like I'm just being pulled apart

From each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends

It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin



Sometimes, I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not

What I'm doin' I just blow, my head is a stove top

I just explode, the kettle gets so hot

Sometimes, my mouth just overloads the gas that I don't got



But I've learned, it's time for me to U-turn

Yo, it only takes one time for me to get burned

Ain't no falling, no, next time I meet a new girl

I can no longer play stupid or be immature



I got every ingredient, all I need is the courage

Like I already got the beat, all I need is the words

Got the urge, suddenly it's a surge

Suddenly a new burst of energy has occurred



Time to show these free world leaders, I'm three in the third

I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bird

Then I turn and cross over the median curb

Hit the burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 mile road



I'm a man, gotta make a new plan

Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

Once I'm over these tracks, man, I'ma never look back

  (8 mile road)



And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going

Sorry Mama, I'm grown, I must travel alone

Ain't follow no footsteps, I'm making my own

Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile road