Sometimes I just like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's enough just dealin' with real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just mics And show these people what my of skill's like But I'm white, sometimes I just hate life Somethin ain't right, hit the brake Case of the stage fright, a blank like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I up {*wham*} I just slam shut I just do it, my whole manhood's been stripped, I have just been vicked So I then get, off the bus then split Man fuck this yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time to really just take matters into my own Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm these train tracks, tryin' to regain back The spirit I had I go back to the same crap To the same plant, and the same to chase rap, gotta move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she don't in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the gets dull in her hand While she colors her big and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what really on in her little head Wish I could be the that neither one of us had But I keep from somethin' I never wanted so bad! I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I grow me two nuts yet Don't rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressure's too much man, I'm tryin' to do what's best And I try, sit and I cry Yo I won't tell no lie, not a moment by I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin' you God Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no job Yo I hope you can hear me homey you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' this tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby goodbye Say you need me baby, I'm never too far But yo I get out there, the only way I know And I'mma be back for you, the that I blow On everything I own, I'll it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 Mile
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to stand up, and travel new land Time to really just take into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must alone Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
You live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Or see the big deal is, why it was and it still is To be walkin this borderline of Detroit city It's different, it's a significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd even see But it's everything to me, my credibility You never seen heard smelled or met a MC Who's incredible the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick rhymes Go to and serve MCs in the lunchline But when it comes crunch time, where do my go Who I show, to bust my flow Where I go, who must I know Or am I just another in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so it I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I out with I look like a bum, yo my ain't about shit At the Army tryin to salvage an outfit And it's cold, tryin' to travel road Plus I feel like I'm on stuck in battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I want Is pity no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and so dark Sometimes I feel I'm just bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by each one of my It's enough to just me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just not I'm doin I just blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the kettle so hot Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass that I got But I've learned, it's time for me to Yo it takes one time for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no next I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got ingredient, all I need is the courage Like I already got the beat, all I need is the Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new burst of has occurred Time to these free world leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a Then I turn and cross over the median Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just up, and travel new land Time to really just matters into my own hands Once I'm over tracks man I'mma never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Road