ange thing happened the other night ...Harry the hairy ape made his escape from the city zoo ...To the middle of the municipal park ...& he hid in the bushes & waited for...along by hi'self in the dark ...Harry jump out of the bushes all of a sud...He ran off through the municipal park, screamin', hollerin', diggin' up the lawn, ... tearin' up the shrub & knock down the "Keep off the grass" sign, run through the ...ne fence, fell into the municipal park swim...ry thought this was the funniest thing that...ha," jumped back in the bushes & got ready ...The next guy to come along was the near-sighted local ...Just boppin' down the sidewalk on his way...Harry jump out of the bushes all of a sud...So he gave him the old glad hand, smiled, slapped him on the back, sayin', ...aby, I'm gonna play the record 'cause you'r... bopped on off down the sidewalk; every 4 o...es. But that's not the end of the ...The DJ played Harry's r...k & took up playin' the guitar ...can go see Harry at the zoo ...& the girls will scream &

ange thing happened the other night...Harry the hairy ape made his escape from the city zoo...To the middle of the municipal park...& he hid in the bushes & waited for...along by hi'self in the dark...Harry jump out of the bushes all of a sud...He ran off through the municipal park, screamin', hollerin', diggin' up the lawn,... tearin' up the shrub & knock down the "Keep off the grass" sign, run through the...ne fence, fell into the municipal park swim...ry thought this was the funniest thing that...ha," jumped back in the bushes & got ready ...The next guy to come along was the near-sighted local ...Just boppin' down the sidewalk on his way...Harry jump out of the bushes all of a sud...So he gave him the old glad hand, smiled, slapped him on the back, sayin',...aby, I'm gonna play the record 'cause you'r... bopped on off down the sidewalk; every 4 o...es. But that's not the end of the...The DJ played Harry's r...k & took up playin' the guitar...can go see Harry at the zoo...& the girls will scream &

I'm from the city of light, with a sk...Known as the city of churches home of the serial killer,...And in the summer it feels lik...Where I'm from you might see Suffa...Walking the traps trying to escape the map,...To when writers ran the line and transits ran the gambit,...My memories the paint, let the track be my canvas,...aint so I rhymed to the writers,...rles not Marilyn, a city held to ransom,...s of an artist left the landscape enchanted...Until the government pigs had all the paint washed,...From our city walls, end of the renaissance,...And so the walls where the colours once played...Were replaced by the buff, now a sullen ...Waiting for the kids of this city to take their walls...I'm from the city of light, with a sk...Known as the city of churches home of the serial killer,...And in the winter, the city sleeps dead in the freeze,...Where I'm from you might see Press...Walking the traps trying to escape the map,...s, when poor racked from Porters,...ifteen, sneaking in the back door to the gig,...'cause the city's darker than a sta...iece of meat, greet the carving knife,...Till the day came when I'd s...The only secret to this...o breathe in 'cause the city invites, jealously,...You're in the city of light.

Hit the brake lights ...Case of the stage fright ...Off the bus then split ...Yo, I'm going the fuck home ... that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road ...The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same crap ...To the same plant ...And the same pants ...Sits in front of the TV buries her nose ...d just colors until the crayon gets dull in...Wish I could be the daddy that neither ...But I keep running from something I never w...The pressure's too much...hat I don't pray to the sky ...gotta get out there the only way I know ...'ma be back for you the second that I blow ... that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road ...Or see what the big deal is ...erline of Detroit's city limits ...'s incredible or on the same pedestal as me...Sit on the porch with all my f...k and serve mc's in the lunch line ...ust another crab in the bucket ...At the Salvation Army tryi...The one thing I don't w...Is pity from no one ...This city is no fun ...From each one of my limb...I just explode, the kettle gets so hot ...outh just overloads the ass that I don't go...dient all I need is the courage ...Like I already got the beat all I need is the words ...Got the urge ... free world leaders the three and a third ...turn and cross over the median curb ...Hit the burbs and all you s... that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road

I get nervous in the New York City streets ...ter off standing in the shadows ...Far from humans with guns ...oo late, there's no escape ...From what they have done...Of the very thing that the...I get nervous in the New York City streets ...ter off standing in the shadows ...Far from humans with guns ...oo late, there's no escape ...From what they have done

I get nervous in the New York City streets ...ter off standing in the shadows ...Far from humans with guns ...oo late, there's no escape ...From what they have done...Of the very thing that the...I get nervous in the New York City streets ...ter off standing in the shadows ...Far from humans with guns ...oo late, there's no escape ...From what they have done

ead I've never seen the New York city streets when my leg'ers still treads I know I'm still better off standin' in the shaddows far from humans with guns but now it's too late there's no escape from what they have done...ead I've never seen the New York city streets when my leg'ers still treads I know I'm still better off standin' in the shaddows far from humans with guns but now it's too late there's no escape from what they have done

I get nervous in the New York City streets...ter off standing in the shadows...Far from humans with guns...oo late, there's no escape...From what they have done...Of the very thing that the...I get nervous in the New York City streets...ter off standing in the shadows...Far from humans with guns...oo late, there's no escape...From what they have done

I get nervous in the New York City streets ...ter off standing in the shadows ...Far from humans with guns ...oo late, there's no escape ...From what they have done...Of the very thing that the...I get nervous in the New York City streets ...ter off standing in the shadows ...Far from humans with guns ...oo late, there's no escape ...From what they have done

As I sat in the back of that old ta...Waitin' for the evening to come. ...very street of this city ...You're the strangest feeling I...The strangest feeling. ...You're the strangest feeling I...The strangest feeling. ...From the day that we are bor...Until the day we die ... though I ride this city ...I can't escape from you. ...d when I look up to the stars I wonder ...Can the world really be so ...You're the strangest feeling I...The strangest feeling. ...You're the strangest feeling I...The strangest feeling. ...Tonight the wolves are howling ...I can't escape from you. ...You're the strangest feeling I...The strangest feeling. ...You're the strangest feeling I...The strangest feeling.

To city lights electric I g...If there´s escape from your illusion ...You gotta break the whole constitution ...this what they call the freedom you buy ? ...Look at him behind the delusion ...All you hear is the voice of confusion ...The bad boy´s back ...The bad boy´s back in ...The bad boy´s back ...If there´s escape from the conclusion ...You gotta shake the whole institution ...If there´s escape from your illusion ...You gotta break the whole constitution

The pit, the pit (Ohhhh my!) ...from the mentality of fool i... come away and chop the heads of these snak... your self, that be the first head you take...The marijuana got my ka...To bite, the livin spirits ...Transmitted by the Abbot ...I appear in the atmosphere like nit...The range where sick so...Breakin from bondage and white g...Escape from Hell ...Watch the Gods be real ...Terror far beyond the stars of William Sh...The rattler can't depor...Then escape New York in East Lo...as get caught up in the exhaust pipe ...Get the frost right or suff...Isle of the King ...The rest of ya'll heffe...God biding escape ...Causin the earth to shake ...Freshly picked out the cemetery, bear the plot ...o, projectiles lace the project ailes ...props than New York City got blocks ...erve endings record the pain ...I cut like the Wu-Tang sword hittin the brain ...The main issue for inva...And have the whole world soakin ...Bustin' the mic like Brooklyn fire hydrants in the summer ...formula is see-4 to the third power ...Torture upon the microphone ...With the type of poem ...The strikes like a poem...Why waste the track, I'm better t

Yo, this Havoc the Mouthpiece from the S.C.C. ...Hoo-ridin in the Central, yeah, the gangsters mob for l...The Cartel's gonna roll the dice ...One time for the mind of the niggas strollin dee...use I'ma hit you in the face with it ...Yo, the Prode'je spoke and ...Who croak when the guns smoke, ?broke,...Cause on the Central tip you get...And if the pistol slip, you ge...Here comes the 187 if a sucker tri...Kaos, Gripp, the ringleader is rip s...nd when I'm grippin the mic or when I flip ...Cock the nine and laugh when...By the mafia king, you were hung by the boss ...Cause I provide the funk and it's homic...In the Central I roam, I'm...The dangerzone, muthafu...Drop the floor on a noose an...Feel the lyrics that blow, h...Hide your dome, the Cartel will penetra...ranium, punk, who's the baddest? ...You can't escape the South Central Madne...Yo, this is the hype of all hypes ... tryin to deal with the Madness ...Cause I live on the edge like every nig...I sling like the Cartel bang ...Cause the jail's got a goddam...Sleepin on the floor like a muthaf...I'm the one Mexican that ro...A city with so much creden...Gamin on the niggas who think th...pretty seditty lady from the city ...Hear the blast, and I see yo...at's scared to pull the trigger ...ter than short, I'm the lady shot caller ...The boss that 24 is dis...y that's pullin all the cards ...Bullshit - my city's full of one-time ...Cause where I'm from every nigga's for h...Or his set with the vest and a Tec ...ised in Watts after the riots ...o I was taught: see the head, fly it ...s try to claim L.A. from Orange County ...And keep flowin to the South Central Madne...In the front seat tryin to...sprayed, fool, this the S.C. ...In the house, puttin nigga...ou do, Andy Mac get the muthafuckin AK stra...Now you know the O.G. meaning of 'de...ight after I proved the point

Tupac, Biggie! shut the fuck up! Fucking do...Through the day...For the night...Like what the hell am I ...Take me away from the hood like a state p...Take me away from the hood in the casket or a Bentley... away like a bullet from Kurt Cobain...I'm from a Windy City, like ...From a block close to wh...And The Game, he's the equal...Hated on so much, "The Passion of Christ" ...d John Lennon leave The Beatles?...We are not the same, I am a Martia...See all the pictures of me and ...Livin' the good life, me and C...Walk through the gates of Hell, see ...The high beams on, me and the Devil share chronic...Listening to the "Chronic" album, pl...I'm from the city that made you mothe...s, but niggas can't escape the hood... that I should hate the hood... like me, that make the hood...n that Phantom just the way I should (My Li...With the top back...I'm paid in full, the nigga Alpo couldn't...ven if they brought the nigga 'Pac back

Tupac, Biggie shut the fuck up!...A way through the day...The life of the night...Like what the hell am I doing rig...Take me away from the hood...Take me away from the hood...Like a bullet from Kurt Cobain....I'm from a windy city...From a block close to...And Game he's the equal....Passion Of The Christ need a seque...d John Lennon leave the Beetles?...A way through the day...The life of the night...Like what the hell am I doing rig...We are not the same,...And all the pictures of me an M...Livin' the good life,...A way through the day...The life of the night...Like what the hell am I doing rig...Walked through the gates of hell,...With the high beams on....Me and the devil...Listening to The Chronic album,...I'm from the city that made you...Escape the hood....That I should hate the hood....That make the hood....Just the way I should....With the top back...The nigga Alvo couldn't...ven if they brought the nigga Pac back,...A way through the day...The life of the night...Like what the hell am I doing rig