Eight Miles-Rap Urban Boys

[ti:Eight Miles] [ar:Rap Urban Boys] [al:Rap] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.13]Eight Miles - Rap Urban Boys [00:00.86]Written by：Rap Urban Boys [00:01.79] [00:29.66]Sometimes I just feel like quittin' I still might [00:32.19]Why do I put up this fight why do I still write [00:34.92]Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with real life [00:37.65]Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics [00:40.46]And show these people what my level of skill's like [00:42.82]But I'm still white sometimes I just hate life [00:45.69]Something ain't right hit the brake lights [00:48.16]Case of the stage fright drawing a blank like [00:50.45] [00:51.03]Da duh duh da da it ain't my fault [00:54.03]Great big eyeballs my insides crawl [00:56.72]And I clam up wham I just slam shut [00:59.14]I just can't do it my whole manhood's [01:01.65]Just been stripped I have just been viced [01:04.12]So I must then get off the bus then split [01:06.55]Man f**k this sh*t yo I'm goin' the f**k home [01:09.51]World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 mile road [01:12.85]I'm a man I'm ma make a new plan [01:14.91]Time for me to just stand up and travel new land [01:17.44]Time to really just take matters into my own hands [01:19.76]Once I'm over these tracks man I'm ma never look [01:22.40]And I'm gone I know right where I'm going [01:25.31]Sorry momma I'm grown I must travel alone [01:27.91]Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own [01:30.51]Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile road [01:33.85]I'm walkin' these train tracks tryin' to regain back [01:36.31]The spirit I had' fore I go back to the same crap [01:39.01]To the same plant and the same pants [01:41.54]Tryin' to chase rap gotta move asap [01:44.07]And get a new plan momma's got a new man [01:46.63]Poor little baby sister she don't understand [01:49.31]Sits in front of the TV buries her nose in the pad [01:51.96]And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand [01:53.95] [01:54.80]While she colors her big brother and mother and dad [01:57.25]Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her little head [01:59.91]Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had [02:02.71]But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad [02:04.88] [02:05.39]Sometimes I get upset cause I ain't blew up yet [02:08.30]It's like I grew up but I ain't grow me two nuts yet [02:11.10]Don't gotta rep my step don't got enough pep [02:13.53]The pressure's too much man I'm just tryin' to do what's best [02:16.57]And I try sit alone and I cry [02:18.65]Yo I won't tell no lie not a moment goes by [02:21.39]That I don't pray to the sky please I'm beggin' you god [02:24.08]Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no regular job [02:26.73]Yo I hope you can hear me homey wherever you are [02:29.30]Yo I'm tellin' you Dawn I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow [02:31.74]Tell my mother I love her kiss baby sister goodbye [02:34.36]Say whenever you need me baby I'm never too far [02:37.17]But yo I gotta get out there the only way I know [02:40.29]And I'm ma be back for you the second that I blow [02:42.89]On everything I own I'll make it on my own [02:45.39]Off to work I go back to this 8 mile road [02:48.26]I'm a man I'm ma make a new plan [02:50.83]Time for me to just stand up and travel new land [02:53.29]Time to really just take matters into my own hands [02:56.19]Once I'm over these tracks man I'm ma never look back [02:58.64]And I'm gone [02:59.61]I know right where I'm going sorry momma I'm grown [03:02.48]I must travel alone [03:03.83]Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own [03:06.53]Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile road [03:09.77]You gotta live it to feel it you didn't you wouldn't get it [03:12.43]Or see what the big deal is why it was and it still is [03:15.15]To be walking this borderline of Detroit city limits [03:17.20]It's different it's a certain significance a certificate [03:19.98]Of authenticity you'd never even see [03:22.55]But it's everything to me it's my credibility [03:25.21]You never seen heard smelled or met a real MC [03:28.06]Who's incredible upon the same pedestal as me [03:30.57]But yet I'm still unsigned havin' a rough time [03:33.51]Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes [03:36.38]Go to work and serve MC in the lunch line [03:38.79]But when it comes crunch time where do my punchlines go [03:41.59]Who must I show to bust my flow [03:44.10] [03:44.92]Where must I go who must I know [03:47.18]Or am I just another crab in the bucket [03:49.19]Cause I ain't having no luck with this little rabbit foot so f** k it [03:52.28]Maybe I need a new outlet I'm starting to doubt sh*t [03:54.72]I'm feeling a little skeptical who I hang out with [03:57.54]I look like a bum yo my clothes ain't about sh*t [04:00.08]At the salvation army trying to salvage an outfit [04:02.76]And it's cold trying to travel this road [04:05.38]Plus I feel like I'm on stuck in this battling mode [04:07.84]My defenses are so up but one thing I don't want [04:10.92]Is pity from no one the city is no fun [04:13.49]There is no sun and it's so dark [04:15.76] [04:16.27]Sometimes I feel like I'm just being pulled apart [04:18.39] [04:18.95]From each one of my limbs by each one of my friends [04:21.86]It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin [04:24.19]Sometimes I feel like a robot sometimes I just know not [04:26.88]What I'm doing I just blow my head is a stove top [04:29.45]I just explode the kettle gets so hot [04:32.27]Sometimes my mouth just overloads the a** that I don't got [04:35.21]But I've learned it's time for me to u turn [04:37.43]Yo it only takes one time for me to get burned [04:39.89]Ain't no falling no next time I meet a new girl [04:42.68]I can no longer play stupid or be immature [04:45.23]I got every ingredient all I need is the courage [04:48.12]Like I already got the beat all I need is the words [04:50.85]Got the urge suddenly it's a surge [04:53.01] [04:53.52]Suddenly a new burst of energy has occurred [04:55.50] [04:56.19]Time to show these free world leaders the 3 and a third [04:58.79]I am no longer scared now I'm free as a bird [05:01.35]Then I turn and cross over the median curb [05:03.94]Hit the' burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 mile road [05:07.25]I'm a man I'm ma make a new plan [05:09.35]Time for me to just stand up and travel new land [05:11.86]Time to really just take matters into my own hands [05:14.63]Once I'm over these tracks man I'm ma never look back [05:17.39]And I'm gone I know right where I'm going [05:20.04]Sorry momma I'm grown I must travel alone [05:22.47]Ain't gong follow the footsteps I'm making my own [05:25.23]Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 mile road