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 dealing 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
Drawing a blank light
It ain't my fault
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 man hoods
Just been stripped
I have just been vicked
So must then get
Off the bus didn't split
Man f**k this sh*t yo
I'm going the f**k home
World on my shoulders
As I run back to this 8 mile road
I'm a man I'm make a new plan
Time for me to just stand up
To travel new land
Time to me to just
Take matters into my own hands
Once I'm over these tracks man
I'm never look back
And I'm gone
I know right where I'm going
Sorry mama I'm grown
I must travel alone
Ain't gonna follow these footsteps
I'm making my own
Only way that I know how to escape
From this 8 mile road
Walking these train tracks
Trying to regain back
The spirit I had fore
I go back to the same crap
To the same plant
In the same pants
Trying to chase rap
Gotta move ASAP
Get a new plan
Mama 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 telling what really
Goes on in her little head
Wish I could be the daddy
That neither one of us had
But I keep running 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 to much man
I'm just trying 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 begging you god
Please don't let me bitching holding no regular job
Yo I hope you can hear me homey wherever you are
Yo I'm telling you dawg
Bailing 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 I know
And I'm 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'm make a new plan
Time for me to just stand up
To travel new land
Time to me to
Just take matters into my own hands
Once I'm over these tracks man
I'm never look back
And I'm gone
I know right where I'm going
Sorry mama I'm grown
I must travel alone
Ain't gonna follow these footsteps
I'm making my own
Only way that I know how
To escape from this 8 mile road
Live it to feel it
You didn't you wouldn't get it
Or see what the big deal is
Why it wasn't the skillest
To be walking 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 MC
Who's incredible around the same pedastal 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 lunchline
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 having no luck
With this little rabbit so f**k it
Maybe I need a new outlet
I'm starting to doubt sh*t
I'm feeling a little skeptical
Who I hang out with
I look like a bum
Yo my clothes ain't about sh*t
At the salvation army
Trying to salvage an outfit
And it's cold trying to travel this road
Plus I feel like
I'm always stuck in this battling mode
My defenses are so up
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 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 doing I just blow
My head is a stove top
I just explode the kettle gets so hot
Sometimes my mouth
Just overloads the a** that I don't got
But I've learned
It's time for me to you 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 ocurred
Time to show these free world leaders
At 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 burns and verbs see
Is a blur from 8 mile road
I'm a man I'm make a new plan
Time for me to just stand up
To travel new land
Time to me to
Just take matters into my own hands
Once I'm over these tracks man
I'm never look back
And I'm gone
I know right where I'm going
Sorry mama I'm grown
I must travel alone
Ain't gonna follow these footsteps
I'm making my own
Only way that I know how to escape
From this 8 mile road