8 mile

[00:17.64] It's alright, it's okay

[00:20.84] I'm gonna make it anyway

[00:23.49] Gonna make it, can't give up now

[00:26.50] I'ma make it somehow

[00:28.90] Sometimes I just feel like quittin', I still might

[00:31.55] Why do I put up this fight? Why do I still write?

[00:34.47] Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with real life

[00:37.15] Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics

[00:39.78] And show these people what my level of skill's like

[00:42.44] But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life

[00:44.83] Somethin' ain't right, hit the brake lights

[00:47.76] Case of the stage fright, drawin' a blank like

[00:50.16] Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my fault

[00:53.35] Great big eyeballs, my insides crawl

[00:55.74] And I clam up, I just slam shut

[00:58.39] I just can't do it, my whole manhood's

[01:00.79] Just been stripped, I have just been 'vict'd

[01:03.17] So I must then get off the bus then split

[01:05.85] Man, fuck this shit, yo, I'm goin' the fuck home

[01:09.02] World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Road

[01:11.68] I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan

[01:13.66] (It's alright, it's okay)

[01:13.79] Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

[01:16.71] (I'm gonna make it anyway)

[01:17.24] Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

[01:19.24] (Gonna make it, can't give up now)

[01:19.51] Once I'm over these tracks, man, I'ma never look back

[01:22.17] (I'ma make it somehow)

[01:23.23] (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'

[01:24.15] (It's alright, it's okay)

[01:24.66] Sorry, Momma, I'm grown, I must travel alone

[01:27.04] (I'm gonna make it anyway)

[01:27.32] Ain't gon' follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own

[01:29.98] (Gonna make it, can't give up now)

[01:30.23] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road

[01:32.90] (I'ma make it somehow)

[01:33.24] I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryna regain back

[01:35.37] The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same crap

[01:38.56] To the same plant, in the same pants

[01:41.48] Tryna chase rap, gotta move ASAP

[01:43.34] And get a new plan, Momma's got a new man

[01:46.00] Poor little baby sister, she don't understand

[01:48.66] Sits in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad

[01:51.29] And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand

[01:53.96] While she colors her big brother and mother and dad

[01:56.61] Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her little head

[01:59.27] Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had

[02:01.65] But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad

[02:04.64] Sometimes I get upset, ‘cause I ain't blew up yet

[02:07.56] It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet

[02:10.23] Don't gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep

[02:12.87] The pressure's too much, man, I'm just tryna do what's best

[02:15.52] And I try, sit alone and I cry

[02:17.91] Yo, I won't tell no lie, not a moment goes by

[02:20.58] That I don't pray to the sky, please, I'm beggin' you, God

[02:23.51] Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no regular job

[02:25.89] Yo, I hope you can hear me, homie, wherever you are

[02:28.55] Yo, I'm tellin' you, dawg, I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow

[02:31.50] Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye

[02:33.88] Say whenever you need me, baby, I'm never too far

[02:36.53] But, yo, I gotta get out there, the only way I know

[02:39.47] And I'ma be back for you the second that I blow

[02:42.11] On everything I own, I'll make it on my own

[02:44.76] Off to work I go back to this 8 Mile Road

[02:47.47] I'm a man, gotta make a new plan

[02:49.31] (It's alright, it's okay)

[02:50.24] Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

[02:52.63] (I'm gonna make it anyway)

[02:52.90] Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

[02:55.29] (Gonna make it, can't give up now)

[02:55.55] Once I'm over these tracks, man, I'ma never look back

[02:57.54] (I'ma make it somehow)

[02:57.81] (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'

[03:00.47] (It's alright, it's okay)

[03:01.25] Sorry, Momma, I'm grown, I must travel alone

[03:03.21] (I'm gonna make it anyway)

[03:03.47] Ain't gon' follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own

[03:05.87] (Gonna make it, can't give up now)

[03:06.14] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road

[03:08.26] (I'ma make it somehow)

[03:09.07] You gotta live it to feel it; you didn't, you wouldn't get it

[03:11.18] Or see what the big deal is, why it was and it still is

[03:13.96] To be walkin' this borderline of Detroit city limits

[03:16.60] It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificate

[03:19.26] Of authenticity, you'd never even see

[03:21.92] But it's everything to me, it's my credibility

[03:24.57] You never seen, heard, smelled or met a real MC

[03:27.24] Who's incredible or on the same pedestal as me

[03:29.90] But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough time

[03:33.09] Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes

[03:35.75] Go to work and serve MCs in the lunchline

[03:38.14] But when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go?

[03:41.04] Who must I show to bust my flow?

[03:44.23] Where must I go? Who must I know?

[03:46.67] Or am I just another crab in the bucket?

[03:48.52] ‘Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little rabbit's foot, fuck it

[03:51.44] Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin' to doubt shit

[03:54.11] I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out with

[03:57.30] I look like a bum, yo, my clothes ain't about shit

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

[04:02.15] And it's cold, tryna travel this road

[04:04.54] Plus I feel like I'm always stuck in this battlin' mode

[04:07.20] My defenses are so up, but one thing I don't want

[04:10.13] Is pity from no one, this city is no fun

[04:13.32] There is no sun, and it's so dark

[04:15.71] Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled apart

[04:18.10] From each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends

[04:20.76] It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin

[04:23.16] Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not

[04:26.05] What I'm doin', I just blow, my head is a stove top

[04:28.75] I just explode, the kettle gets so hot

[04:31.40] Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass that I don't got

[04:34.59] But I've learned, it's time for me to U-turn

[04:36.72] Yo, it only takes one time for me to get burned

[04:39.11] Ain't no fallin', no, next time I meet a new girl

[04:42.04] I can no longer play stupid or be immature

[04:44.95] I got every ingredient, all I need is the courage

[04:47.08] Like I already got the beat, all I need is the words

[04:50.52] Got the urge, suddenly it's a surge

[04:52.65] Suddenly a new burst of energy has occurred

[04:55.31] Time to show these Free World leaders the three and a third

[04:57.97] I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bird

[05:00.61] Then I turn and cross over the median curb

[05:03.28] Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road

[05:06.20] I'm a man, gotta make a new plan

[05:08.33] (It's alright, it's okay)

[05:08.59] Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

[05:10.98] (I'm gonna make it anyway)

[05:11.25] Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

[05:13.90] (Gonna make it, can't give up now)

[05:14.19] Once I'm over these tracks, man, I'ma never look back

[05:15.77] (I'ma make it somehow)

[05:16.31] (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'

[05:19.06] (It's alright, it's okay)

[05:19.49] Sorry, Momma, I'm grown, I must travel alone

[05:21.61] (I'm gonna make it anyway)

[05:21.88] Ain't gon' follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own

[05:24.54] (Gonna make it, can't give up now)

[05:24.81] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road

[05:27.46] (I'ma make it somehow)