8-Mile-_From-_8-Mile_-Soundtrack_-_128kbit_AAC_

[00:18.22] It's alright, it's okay I'm gonna make it anyway

[00:23.53] Gonna make it, can't give up now, I'ma make it somehow

[00:28.85] Sometimes I just feel like quittin', I still might

[00:31.77] Why do I put up this fight? Why do I still write?

[00:34.43] Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with real life

[00:36.82] Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics

[00:39.75] And show these people what my level of skill's like

[00:42.40] But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life

[00:45.05] Somethin' ain't right, hit the brake lights

[00:47.71] Case of the stage fright, drawin' a blank like

[00:50.10] Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my fault

[00:53.03] Great big eyeballs, my insides crawl

[00:55.94] And I clam up, I just slam shut

[00:58.33] I just can't do it, my whole manhood's

[01:00.73] Just been stripped, I have just been 'vict'd

[01:03.12] So I must then get off the bus then split

[01:05.77] Man, fuck this shit, yo, I'm goin' the fuck home

[01:08.69] World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Road

[01:11.62] I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan

[01:14.01] Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

[01:16.67] Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

[01:19.58] Once I'm over these tracks, man, I'ma never look back

[01:21.71] (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'

[01:24.63] Sorry, Momma, I'm grown, I must travel alone

[01:27.28] Ain't gon' follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own

[01:29.95] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road

[01:33.14] I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryna regain back

[01:35.52] The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same crap

[01:38.71] To the same plant, in the same pants

[01:41.10] Tryna chase rap, gotta move ASAP

[01:43.76] And get a new plan, Momma's got a new man

[01:46.15] Poor little baby sister, she don't understand

[01:48.80] Sits in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad

[01:51.46] And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand

[01:54.11] While she colors her big brother and mother and dad

[01:56.78] Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her little head

[01:59.43] Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had

[02:02.09] But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad

[02:04.74] Sometimes I get upset, ‘cause I ain't blew up yet

[02:07.40] It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet

[02:10.58] Don't gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep

[02:12.98] The pressure's too much, man, I'm just tryna do what's best

[02:15.37] And I try, sit alone and I cry

[02:17.75] Yo, I won't tell no lie, not a moment goes by

[02:20.68] That I don't pray to the sky, please, I'm beggin' you, God

[02:23.33] Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no regular job

[02:25.99] Yo, I hope you can hear me, homie, wherever you are

[02:28.66] Yo, I'm tellin' you, dawg, I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow

[02:31.57] Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye

[02:33.96] Say whenever you need me, baby, I'm never too far

[02:36.62] But yo, I gotta get out there, the only way I know

[02:39.27] And I'ma be back for you the second that I blow

[02:42.46] On everything I own, I'll make it on my own

[02:44.85] Off to work I go back to this 8 Mile Road

[02:47.77] I'm a man, gotta make a new plan

[02:49.90] Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

[02:52.82] Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

[02:54.67] (Gonna make it, can't give up now)

[02:55.74] Once I'm over these tracks, man, I'ma never look back

[02:57.60] (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'

[03:00.79] Sorry, Momma, I'm grown, I must travel alone

[03:03.18] Ain't gon' follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own

[03:06.10] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road

[03:09.03] You gotta live it to feel it; you didn't, you wouldn't get it

[03:11.42] Or see what the big deal is, why it was and it still is

[03:14.07] To be walkin' this borderline of Detroit city limits

[03:16.73] It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificate

[03:19.39] Of authenticity, you'd never even see

[03:22.04] But it's everything to me, it's my credibility

[03:24.69] You never seen, heard, smelled or met a real MC

[03:27.36] Who's incredible or on the same pedestal as me

[03:29.74] But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough time

[03:32.93] Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes

[03:36.12] Go to work and serve MCs in the lunchline

[03:38.24] But when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go?

[03:41.17] Who must I show to bust my flow?

[03:44.08] Where must I go? Who must I know?

[03:46.48] Or am I just another crab in the bucket?

[03:48.60] ‘Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little rabbit's foot, fuck it

[03:51.26] Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin' to doubt shit

[03:54.17] I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out with

[03:56.84] I look like a bum, yo, my clothes ain't about shit

[03:59.49] At the Salvation Army, tryna salvage an outfit

[04:02.41] And it's cold, tryna travel this road

[04:04.80] Plus I feel like I'm always stuck in this battlin' mode

[04:07.46] My defenses are so up, but one thing I don't want

[04:10.39] Is pity from no one, this city is no fun

[04:13.04] There is no sun, and it's so dark

[04:15.96] Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled apart

[04:18.35] From each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends

[04:20.48] It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin

[04:23.14] Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not

[04:26.06] What I'm doin', I just blow, my head is a stove top

[04:28.98] I just explode, the kettle gets so hot

[04:31.63] Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass that I don't got

[04:34.56] But I've learned, it's time for me to U-turn

[04:36.68] Yo, it only takes one time for me to get burned

[04:39.33] Ain't no fallin', no, next time I meet a new girl

[04:42.00] I can no longer play stupid or be immature

[04:44.65] I got every ingredient, all I need is the courage

[04:47.31] Like I already got the beat, all I need is the words

[04:49.96] Got the urge, suddenly it's a surge

[04:52.62] Suddenly a new burst of energy has occurred

[04:55.54] Time to show these Free World leaders the three and a third

[04:58.20] I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bird

[05:00.59] Then I turn and cross over the median curb

[05:03.51] Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road

[05:06.43] I'm a man, gotta make a new plan

[05:08.55] Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

[05:11.47] Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

[05:13.86] Once I'm over these tracks, man, I'ma never look back

[05:16.26] (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'

[05:18.92] (It's alright, it's okay)

[05:19.70] Sorry, Momma, I'm grown, I must travel alone

[05:22.10] Ain't gon' follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own

[05:24.75] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road