1 Mile (Album Version)-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 eyeballs, 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 f**k this shit yo, i'm going the f**k 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 nuts 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 bitchin holdin 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 f**k it [03:51.15]maybe i need a new outlet, i'm startin to doubt shit [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]