[00:00:03] eminem - 8 mile [00:00:28] sometimes i just feel like, quitting i still might [00:00:31] why do i put upthis fight, why do i still write [00:00:33] sometimes it's hard enough just dealin wit real life [00:00:36] sometimes i wanna jump on stage and just kill mics [00:00:39] and show these people what my level of skills like [00:00:41] but i'm still white, sometimes i just hate life [00:00:44] something ain't right, hit the brake lights [00:00:47] case of the stage fright, drawin a blank light [00:00:50] da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my fault [00:00:53] great big eyeballs, my insides crawl [00:00:55] and i clam up, i just slam shut [00:00:57] i just can't do it, my whole manhoods [00:01:00] just been stripped, i have just been vicked [00:01:03] so i must then get, off this bus then split [00:01:05] man f**k this shit yo, i'm going the f**k home [00:01:08] world on my shoulders as i run back to this 8 mile road [00:01:12] i'm a man, i'ma make a new plan [00:01:13] time for me to just stand up, and travel new land [00:01:16] time for me to just take matters into my own hands [00:01:18] once i'm over these tracks man i'ma never look back [00:01:21] (8 mile road) and i'm gone, i know right where i'm going [00:01:24] sorry mama i'm grown, i must travel alone [00:01:26] ain't gunna follow these footsteps, i'm making my own [00:01:29] only way i know how to escape from this 8 mile road [00:01:32] i'm walking these train tracks, tryin to regain back [00:01:35] the spirit i had fore i go back to the same crap [00:01:37] to the same plant, in the same pants [00:01:40] tryin to chase rap, gotta move asap [00:01:43] and get a new plan, mommas got a new mam [00:01:45] poor little baby sister, she don't understand [00:01:48] sits in front of the t.v, buries her nose in the pad [00:01:50] and just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand [00:01:53] while she colors her big brother, her mother and dad [00:01:56] ain't no tellin what really goes on in her little head [00:01:58] wish i could be the daddy that neither one of us had [00:02:01] but i keep runnin from something i never wanted so bad! [00:02:04] sometimes i get upset, cause i ain't blew up yet [00:02:07] it's like i grew up, but i ain't grow me two nuts yet [00:02:09] don't got a rep my step, don't got enough pep [00:02:12] the pressures to much man, i'm just tryin to do whats best [00:02:15] and i try, sit alone and i cry [00:02:17] yo i won't tell no lie, not a moment goes by [00:02:20] that i don't pray to the sky, please i'm beggin you god [00:02:22] please don't let me bitchin holdin no regular job [00:02:25] yo i hope you can hear me homey wherever you are [00:02:27] yo i'm tellin you dawg i'm bailin this trailer tomorrow [00:02:30] tell my mother i love her, kiss baby sister goodbye [00:02:33] say whenevr you need me baby i'm never to far [00:02:36] but yo i gotta get out there the only way that i know [00:02:38] and i'ma be back for you the second that i blow [00:02:41] on everything i own, i'll make it on my own [00:02:44] off to work i go, back to this 8 mile road [00:02:47] i'm a man, i'ma make a new plan [00:02:49] time for me to just stand up, and travel new land [00:02:52] time for me to just take matters into my own hands [00:02:55] once i'm over these tracks man i'ma never look back [00:02:57] (8 mile road) and i'm gone, i know right where i'm going [00:03:00] sorry mama i'm grown, i must travel alone [00:03:03] ain't gunna follow these footsteps, i'm making my own [00:03:05] only way i know how to escape from this 8 mile road [00:03:08] you gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it [00:03:10] or see what the big deal is, why it wasn't the skillest [00:03:13] to be walkin this boarder line of detroit city limits [00:03:16] it's different, it's a certain significance, a certificate [00:03:18] of authenticity, you've never even seen [00:03:21] but it's everthing to me, it's my credibility [00:03:24] you've never seen heard smelled or met a real mc [00:03:26] who's incredible upon the same pedastal as me [00:03:29] but yet i'm still unsigned, having a rough time