You've never seen, heard, smelled, or met a real MC It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificateīut it's everthing to me, it's my credibility To be walkin' this boarder line of Detroit city limits Or see what the big deal is, why it wasn't it still is You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Off to work I go, back to this 8 mile road On everything I own, I'll make it on my own Say whenever you need me baby I'm never to farīut yo I gotta get out there the only way that I knowĪnd I'ma be back for you the second that I blow Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye Yo I'm tellin' you dawg, I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Yo I hope you can hear me homey wherever you are Please don't let me be pigeon holed in no regular job That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin' You, God Yo I won't tell no lie, not a moment goes by The pressures too much man, I'm just tryin' to do what's best It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yetĭon't got a rep my step, don't got enough pep Sometimes I get upset, 'cause I ain't blew up yet Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us hadīut I keep runnin' from something I never wanted so bad! While she colors her big brother, her mother and dadĪin't no tellin' what really goes on in her little head Sits in front of the T.V, buries her nose in the padĪnd just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand Poor little baby sister, she don't understand The spirit I had fore I go back to the same crapĪnd get a new plan, momma's got a new man I'm walking these train tracks, tryin' to regain back
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Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile road Sorry mama I'm grown, I must travel aloneĪin't following no footsteps, I'm making my own Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look backĨ mile road, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm going Time for me to just take matters into my own hands Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 mile road Man fuck this shit yo, I'm going the fuck home So I must then get, off this bus then split Just been stripped, I have just been ripped Something ain't right, hit the brake lightsĬase of the stage fright, drawin' a blank like Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill micsĪnd show these people what my level of skills likeīut I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' wit real life Why do I put up this fight, why do I still write Oxxxymiron - Versus Battle 3 (feat.Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I still might.Here, tell these people something they don't know about me. this battle, I don't wanna win, i'm outie. He's scared to death, he's scared to look in his. 'Cos their ain't no such thing as "Half way crooks". This guy's a gangster? His real name is Clarence!Īnd Clarence lives at home with both parents,Īnd Clarence's parents have a real good marriage. You went to Cranbrook, that's a private school! I did get jumped, by all six of you chumps. Who shoots himself in the leg with his own gun. I do have a dumb friend named cheddar Bob I know everything he's got to say against me, Notice that this man does not have his hands up.