Sometimes I just feel like, I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I write Sometimes it's hard enough just with real life Sometimes I wanna jump on and just kill mics And show these what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I just life Somethin ain't right, hit the lights Case of the stage fright, drawin a blank Da-duh-duh-da-da, it my fault big eyeballs, my insides crawl And I up {*wham*} I just slam shut I just can't do it, my manhood's Just 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 as I run back to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really just take matters into my own Once I'm over these man I'mma never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I travel alone Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile
I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryin' to back The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the crap To the same plant, and the same Tryin' to rap, gotta move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man little baby sister, she don't understand Sits in of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets in her hand While she colors her big and mother and dad Ain't no what really goes on in her little head Wish I could be the that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never so bad! Sometimes I get upset, I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I ain't me two nuts yet gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep The too much man, I'm just tryin' to do what's best And I try, sit and I cry Yo I won't tell no lie, not a goes by That I don't pray to the sky, I'm beggin' you God Please don't let me be in no regular job Yo I hope you can hear me wherever you are Yo I'm you dawg I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, baby sister goodbye Say whenever you need me baby, I'm too far But yo I get out there, the only way I know And I'mma be back for you, the second that I On everything I own, make it on my own Off to I go, back to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really just take matters my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must alone Ain't follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape 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 city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, never even see But it's to me, it's my credibility You never seen smelled or met a real MC incredible upon the same pedestal as me But yet I'm unsigned, havin' a rough time Sit on the porch with all my friends and dumb rhymes Go to work and serve MCs in the But when it comes crunch time, where do my go Who must I show, to bust my must I go, who must I know Or am I just crab in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm to doubt shit I'm feelin' a skeptical who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't shit At the Salvation Army tryin to an outfit And it's cold, to travel this road Plus I feel like I'm on in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I want Is pity from no one, the is no fun There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled From each one of my limbs, by each one of my It's enough to just make me wanna 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 gets so hot Sometimes my mouth overloads the ass that I don't got But I've learned, it's for me to U-turn Yo it only one time for me to get burned Ain't no no next time 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 is the words Got the urge, it's a surge Suddenly a new of energy has occurred Time to these free world leaders the 3 and a third I am no scared now, I'm free as a bird Then I turn and cross over the median Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time to really just matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I right 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 this 8 Mile Road