[Am]

 

[Am]It's ok. It's ok.

[Am]You're gonna make it anyway.

 

[Am]Sometimes I just feel like quittin', I still might

[Am]Why do I put up this fight, why do I still write

[Am]Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin with real life

[Am]Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics

 

[Am]And show these people what my level of skill's like

[Am]But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life

[Am]Something ain't right, hit the brake lights

[Am]Case of the stage fright, drawin a blank like

 

[Am]...Oh it ain't my fault

[Am]breakin' eyeballs, my insides crawl

[Am]And I clam up, I just slam shut

[Am]I just can't do it, my whole manhood's

 

[Am]Just been stripped, I've just been ripped

[Am]So I must then get what the bus didn't split

[Am]Man fuck this shit yo, I'm goin the fuck home

[Am]World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Road

 

[Am]I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan

[Am]Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land

[Am]Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

[Am]Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back

 

[Am]And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin

[Am]Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone

[Am]Ain't gonna follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own

[Am]Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road

 

[Am]Walkin these train tracks, tryin to regain back

[Am]The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same crap

[Am]To the same plant in the same pants

[Am]Tryin to chase rap, gotta move ASAP

 

[Am]get a new plan, mama's got a new man

[Am]Poor little baby sister, she don't understand

[Am]Sits in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad

[Am]And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand

 

[Am]While she colors her big brother, her mother and dad

[Am]Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her little head

[Am]Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had

[Am]But I keep runnin from somethin' I never wanted so bad

 

[Am]Sometimes I get upset, 'cause I ain't blew up yet

[Am]It's like I grew up, but I ain't grown me two nuts yet

[Am]Don't gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep

[Am]The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin to do what's best

 

[Am]And I try, sit alone and I cry

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

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

[Am]Please don't let me be pigeon-holed in no regular job

 

[Am]Yo, I hope you can hear me homey wherever you are

[Am]Yo, I'm tellin you dawg I'm bailin this trailer tomorrow

[Am]Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye

[Am]so whenever you need me baby, I'm never too far

 

[Am]But yo I gotta get out there, the only way I know

[Am]And I'ma be back for you the second that I blow

[Am]On everything I own, I'll make it on my own

[Am]Off to work I go, back to this 8 Mile Road

 

[Am]I'm a man, gotta make a new plan

[Am]Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

[Am]Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

[Am]Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back

 

[Am]And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'

[Am]Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone

[Am]Ain't gonna follow no footsteps, I'm makin my own

[Am]Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road

 

[Am]You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it

[Am]we'll see what the big deal is, why it was and it still is

[Am]To be walkin this borderline of Detroit city limits

[Am]It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificate

 

[Am]Of authenticity, you'd never even see

[Am]But it's everything to me, it's my credibility

[Am]You'd never seen heard, smelled or met a real MC

[Am]Whose incredible or on the same pedestal as me

 

[Am]But yet I'm still unsigned, havin a rough time

[Am]Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes

[Am]Go to work and serve MCs in the lunchline

[Am]But when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go

 

[Am]Who must I show to bust my flow

[Am]Where must I go, who must I know

[Am]Or am I just another crab in the bucket

[Am]Cause I ain't havin no luck with this little Rabbit so fuck it

 

[Am]Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit

[Am]I'm feelin a little skeptical who I hang out with

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

[Am]At the Salvation Army tryin to salvage an outfit

 

[Am]And it's cold, tryin to travel this road

[Am]Plus I feel like I'm old, stuck in this battlin' mode

[Am]My defenses are so up and one thing I don't want

[Am]Is pity from no one, the city is no fun

 

[Am]There is no sun and it's so dark

[Am]Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled apart

[Am]From each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends

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

 

[Am]Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not

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

[Am]I just explode, the ghetto gets so hot

[Am]Sometimes my mouth just overloads the gas that I don't got

 

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

[Am]Yo it only takes one time for me to get burned

[Am]Ain't no fallin on next time I meet a new girl

[Am]I can no longer play stupid or be immature

 

[Am]I got every ingredient, all I need is the courage

[Am]Like I already got the beat, all I need is the words

[Am]Got the urge, suddenly it's a surge

[Am]Suddenly a new burst of energy is occured

 

[Am]Time to show these free world leaders the three and a third

[Am]I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bird

[Am]Then I turn and cross over the median curb

[Am]Hit the burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road

 

[Am]I'm a man, gotta make a new plan

[Am]Time for me to just stand up and travel new land

[Am]Time for me to just take matters into my own hands

[Am]Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back

 

[Am]And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'

[Am]Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone

[Am]Ain't gonna follow no footsteps, I'm makin my own

[Am]Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road