Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill And show these people my level of skill's like But I'm still white, I just hate life Somethin ain't right, hit the lights Case of the stage fright, a blank like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I clam up {*wham*} I just slam I just can't do it, my manhood's Just been stripped, I have just 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 back to 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to stand up, and travel new land Time to just take matters into my own hands Once I'm these tracks man I'mma never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gon' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' train tracks, tryin' to regain back The spirit I had 'fore I go to the same crap To the same plant, and the same Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move And get a new plan, got a new man little baby sister, she don't understand Sits in front of the TV, her nose in the pad And just colors until the gets dull in her hand she colors her big brother and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what goes on in her little head I could be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from somethin' I wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't up yet It's like I up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet Don't rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressure's too much man, I'm just to do what's best And I try, sit and I cry Yo I won't no lie, not a moment goes by That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm 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 trailer Tell my mother I love her, kiss sister goodbye Say you need me baby, I'm never too far But yo I gotta get out there, the way I know And I'mma be back for you, the second that I On everything I own, I'll it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 Road
I'm a man, make a new plan for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time to just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm my own Only way that I know how to from this 8 Mile Road
You gotta it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Or see what the big is, why it was and it still is To be walkin this of Detroit city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, never even see But everything to me, it's my credibility You never heard smelled or met a real MC Who's incredible upon the same as me But yet I'm still unsigned, a rough time Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick rhymes Go to and serve MCs in the lunchline But it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who must I show, to my flow Where must I go, who I know Or am I just another crab in the Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit so fuck it Maybe I a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit I'm feelin' a little who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't shit At the Salvation tryin to salvage an outfit And cold, tryin' to travel this road I feel like I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one I don't want Is from no one, the city is no fun is no sun, and it's so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends It's enough to just me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm I just blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the kettle so hot my mouth just overloads the ass that I don't got But I've learned, it's time for me to Yo it only takes one for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no next time I meet a new I can no play stupid or be immature I got every ingredient, all I is the courage I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly a surge Suddenly a new burst of 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 and cross over the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 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 right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road