8 MILE

It's ok . It's ok . You're 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 its hard enough just dealin' with real life sometimes I wanna jump this 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 somethin' aint right hit the brake lights case of this stage fright drawin' a blank like ...Oh it ain't my fault breakin' 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've just been ripped So I must didn't get for the bust didn't split man fuck this shit yo I'm goin' 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 and I'm gone I know right where I'm goin sorry mama I'm grown I must travel alone ain't gon' follow no footsteps I'm makin' my own only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile road Walkin' 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 trynna chase rap gotta move asap get a new plan mama's got a new man poor little baby sister she don't understand sits in front of the tv buries her nose in her pad and just colors until the crayon gets dull on 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 grown me too nuts yet don't gotta rep my step don't got enough pep the pressure's too much man I'm just trynna 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 pidgeon-holed in no regular job yo I hope you can hear me homie wherever you are yo I'm tellin' you God I'm bailin' this trailor tomorrow tell my mother I love her kiss baby sister good-bye so 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 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 and I'm gone I know right where I'm goin sorry mama I'm grown I must travel alone ain't gon' follow no footsteps I'm makin' 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 we'll see what the big deal is why it wasn't, it still is to be walkin' this borderline of Detroit city limits its different it's a certain significance of certificate of authenticity you'd never even see but its everything to me its my credibility you'd never seen, heard, smelled or met a real MC whose incredible or on the same pedastal as me but yet I'm still un-signed havin' a rough time sit on the porch with 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 punch lines 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 trynna salvage an outfit and its cold trynna travel this road plus I feel like I'm always stuck in this battlin' mode my defenses are so up but one thing I don't want is pity from no one this city is no fun there is no sun and its so dark sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled apart from each one of my limbs by each one of my friends its enough to just make me wanna jump outta 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 ghetto gets so hot sometimes my mouth just overloads the acid I don't got but I've learned its time for me to U-turn yo it only takes one time for me to get burned ain't no fallin' or next time I'm 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 a three and a third I am no longer scared now I'm free as a bird then I turn and cross over the median curve hit the burbs and all you see is a blur of 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 and I'm gone I know right where I'm goin sorry mama I'm grown I must travel alone ain't gon' follow no footsteps I'm makin' my own only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile road