1 Mile-Lalah Hathaway

[00:03.29]Eminem - 8 Mile [00:17.41] [00:28.57]Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I still might [00:31.15]Why do I put upthis fight, why do I still write [00:33.74]Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin wit real life [00:36.52]Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics [00:39.25]And show these people what my level of skills like [00:41.82]But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life [00:44.55]Something ain't right, hit the brake lights [00:47.19]Case of the stage fright, drawin a blank light [00:50.08]Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my fault [00:53.10]Great big eye****ers, my insides crawl [00:55.79]And I clam up, I just slam shut [00:57.92]I just can't do it, my whole manhoods [01:00.55]Just been stripped, I have just been vicked [01:03.12]So i must then get, off this bus then split [01:05.52]Man **** this shit yo, I'm going the **** home [01:08.45]World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 mile road [01:12.12]I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan [01:13.66]Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land [01:16.46]Time for me to just take matters into my own hands [01:18.92]Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back [01:21.60](8 mile road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going [01:24.39]Sorry mama I'm grown, I must travel alone [01:26.90]Ain't gunna follow these footsteps, I'm making my own [01:29.60]Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road [01:32.65]I'm walking these train tracks, tryin to regain back [01:35.28]the spirit I had fore I go back to the same crap [01:37.87]To the same plant, in the same pants [01:40.54]Tryin to chase rap, gotta move ASAP [01:43.19]And get a new plan, mommas got a new mam [01:45.51]Poor little baby sister, she don't understand [01:48.58]Sits in front of the T.V, buries her nose in the pad [01:50.77]And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand [01:53.51]While she colors her big brother, her mother and dad [01:56.20]Ain't no tellin what really goes on in her little head [01:58.83]Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had [02:01.50]But I keep runnin from something I never wanted so bad! [02:04.13]Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet [02:07.09]It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two n**s yet [02:09.68]Don't got a rep my step, don't got enough pep [02:12.34]The pressures to much man, I'm just tryin to do whats best [02:15.04]And I try, sit alone and I cry [02:17.32]Yo I won't tell no lie, not a moment goes by [02:20.17]That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin you god [02:22.74]Please don't let me ****in hold no regular job [02:25.39]Yo I hope you can hear me homey wherever you are [02:27.94]Yo I'm tellin you dawg I'm bailin this trailer tomorrow [02:30.69]Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye [02:33.31]Say whenevr you need me baby I'm never to far [02:36.00]But yo I gotta get out there the only way that I know [02:38.79]And I'ma be back for you the second that I blow [02:41.52]On everything I own, I'll make it on my own [02:44.79]Off to work I go, back to this 8 mile road [02:47.30]I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan [02:49.71]Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land [02:52.54]Time for me to just take matters into my own hands [02:55.01]Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back [02:57.63](8 mile road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going [03:00.38]Sorry mama I'm grown, I must travel alone [03:03.11]Ain't gunna follow these footsteps, I'm making my own [03:05.56]Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road [03:08.67]You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it [03:10.98]Or see what the big deal is, why it wasn't the skillest [03:13.81]To be walkin this boarder line of Detroit city limits [03:16.33]It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificate [03:18.84]Of authenticity, you've never even seen [03:21.42]But it's everthing to me, it's my credibility [03:24.22]You've never seen heard smelled or met a real MC [03:26.84]Who's incredible upon the same pedastal as me [03:29.46]But yet I'm still unsigned, having a rough time [03:32.54]Sit on the porch wit all my friends and kick dumb rhymes [03:35.22]Go to work and serve MC's in the lunchline [03:37.89]But when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go [03:40.64]Who must I show, to bust my flow [03:43.59]Where must I go, who must I know [03:46.17]Or am I just another crab in the bucket [03:48.51]Cause I ain't havin no luck with this little Rabbit so **** it [03:51.15]Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt bullshit [03:53.88]I'm feelin a little skeptical who I hang out with [03:56.35]I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit [03:59.08]At the salvation army tryin to salvage an outfit [04:02.09]And it's cold tryin to travel this raod [04:04.77]Plus I feel like on stuck in this battlin mode [04:07.02]My defenses are so up, and one thing I don't want [04:09.89]Is pity from no one, this city is no fun [04:12.54]There is no sun, and it's so dark [04:15.29]Sometimes I just feel like I being pulled apart [04:17.91]From each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends [04:20.24]It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin [04:22.91]Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not [04:25.86]What I'm doin I just blow, my head is a stove top [04:28.15]I just explode, the kettle gets so hot [04:31.15]Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass that I don't got [04:33.73]But I've learned, it's time for me to u-turn [04:36.58]Yo it only takes one time for me to get burned [04:38.93]Ain't no falling no next time I meet a new girl [04:41.57]I can no longer play stupid or be immature [04:44.19]I got every ingredient, all I need is the courage [04:46.81]Like I already got the beat, all I need is the words [04:49.88]Got the urge, suddenly it's a surge [04:52.25]Suddenly a new burst of energy has ocurred [04:54.64]Time to show these free world leaders at three in the third [04:57.38]I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bird [05:00.01]Then I turn and cross over the median curb [05:02.69]Hit the verbs and all you see is a blur from 8 mile road [05:06.31]I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan [05:08.39]Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land [05:11.00]Time for me to just take matters into my own hands [05:13.87]Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back [05:16.28](8 mile road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going [05:18.96]Sorry mama I'm grown, I must travel alone [05:21.59]Ain't gunna follow these footsteps, I'm making my own [05:24.22]Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road [05:28.53]