8 Mile movie - 8 Mile Road lyrics
rate me<br>
(It's okay, it's okay. I'm gonna make it anyway.)<br>
Sometimes I just feel like<br>
Quittin I still might<br>
Why do I put up this fight?<br>
Why do I still write?<br>
Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin with real life<br>
Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics<br>
And show these people what my level of skill's like<br>
But I'm still white<br>
Sometimes I just hate life<br>
Somethin ain't right<br>
Hit the breaklights<br>
In case of the stage fright<br>
Drawin' a Blank like<br>
(Uhh, But if I fall, It ain't my fault, Breakin eyeballs, My insides crawl)<br>
And I clam up (SMASH!)<br>
I just slam shut<br>
I just can't do it<br>
My whole manhood's just been stripped<br>
I've just been ripped<br>
So I must been dipped<br>
Or the bustin split<br>
Man fuck this shit yo<br>
I'm goin the fuck home<br>
Rollin my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Rd.<br>
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(Chorus)<br>
I'm a man<br>
I'ma make a new plan<br>
Time for me to stand up and travel new land<br>
Time for me to just to take matters into my own hands<br>
Once I'm over these tracks man<br>
I'ma never look back<br>
(8 Mile Rd.)<br>
And I'm gone<br>
I don't like where I'm goin<br>
Sorry mama I've grown<br>
I must travel alone<br>
Ain't no followin no footsteps<br>
I'm makin my own<br>
Only way I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Rd.<br>
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Walkin these traintracks<br>
Tryin to regain back the spirit I have<br>
'Fore I go back to the same crap (SMASH!)<br>
To the same plant<br>
And the same pants<br>
Tryin to chase rap<br>
Gotta move A.S.A.P.<br>
Get a new plan<br>
Mama's got a new man<br>
Poor little baby sister<br>
She don't understand<br>
Sits in front of the TV, bury's her nose in the pad<br>
And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand<br>
While she colors her big brother, her mother, and dad<br>
Ain't no tellin what really goes on in her little head<br>
Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had<br>
But I keep runnin from somethin I never wanted so bad<br>
Sometimes I get upset<br>
Cuz I ain't blew up yet<br>
It's like I grew up, but I aint grownin two nuts yet<br>
Don't gotta rap my step<br>
Don't got enough pep<br>
The pressure's too much man<br>
I'm just tryin to do what's best<br>
And I try<br>
Sit alone and I cry<br>
Yo I won't tell a lie<br>
Not a moment goes by<br>
That I don't pray to the sky<br>
Please I'm beggin you God<br>
Please don't let me be pigeon holdin on regular job<br>
Yo I hope you can hear me hommie<br>
Wherever you are<br>
Yo I'm tellin you dog<br>
I'm bailin this trailor tomorrow<br>
Tell my mother I love her<br>
Kiss baby sister goodbye<br>
Say whenever you need me baby<br>
I'm never too far<br>
But yo, I gotta get out there<br>
The only way I know<br>
And I'ma do that for you<br>
On the second that I blow<br>
On everything I own<br>
I'll make it on my own<br>
Off to work I go<br>
Back to this 8 Mile Rd.<br>
<br>
(Chorus)<br>
<br>
Ya gotta live it to feel it<br>
If you didn't you wouldn't get it<br>
We'll see what the big deal is<br>
Why it wasn't, it still is<br>
To be walkin this border line of Detroit city's limit<br>
It's different, it's a certain significant certificate of authenticity<br>
You'd never even see<br>
But it's everything to me<br>
It's my credibility<br>
You've never seen, heard, smell, or met an MC<br>
Who's incredible and on the same pedistool as me<br>
But check<br>
Still unsigned<br>
Havin a rough time<br>
Sit on the porch with all my friend's who kick dumb rhymes<br>
Go to work<br>
And servin MC's in the lunch line<br>
But when it come's crunch time<br>
Where do my punch lines go?<br>
Who must I show?<br>
To bust my flow?<br>
Where must I go?<br>
Who must I know?<br>
Or am I just another crab in the bucket<br>
Cuz I ain't havin no luck with this little rabbit so fuck it<br>
Maybe I need a new outlit<br>
I'm startin to doubt shit<br>
I'm feelin a little scepticle<br>
Of who I hang out with<br>
I look like a bum<br>
Yo my clothes ain't about shit<br>
At the Salvation Army<br>
Tryin to salvage and outfit<br>
And it's cold<br>
Tryin to travel this road<br>
Plus I feel like I'm only stuck in this battlin mode<br>
My defenses are so up<br>
And one thing I don't want<br>
Is pity from no one<br>
The city is no fun<br>
There is no sun<br>
And it's so dark<br>
Sometimes I feel like I'm just being pulled apart<br>
Being torn in my limbs<br>
By each one of my friends<br>
Enough to just make me wanna jump outta my skin<br>
Sometimes I feel like a robot<br>
Sometimes I just know not what I'm doin<br>
I just blow<br>
My head is a stove top<br>
I just explode<br>
The kettle gets so hot<br>
Sometimes my mouth just overloads the acid I don't got<br>
But I've learned<br>
It's time for me to U-Turn<br>
Yo it only takes one time for me to get burnt<br>
Ain't no fallin<br>
No next time<br>
Imeet a new girl<br>
I can no longer play stupid<br>
Or be immature<br>
I've got every ingredient<br>
All I need is the courage<br>
Like I already got to beat<br>
All I need is the words<br>
Got the urge<br>
Suddenly its a search<br>
Suddenly a new verse of energy has occured<br>
Time to show these free world leaders<br>
Three in the third<br>
I am no longer scared now<br>
I'm free as a bird<br>
And I turn and cross over<br>
The median curb<br>
Hit the burbs and all you see is a blur on 8 mile rd.<br>
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(Chorus)<br>
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