Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still Why do I put up this fight, why do I write Sometimes hard enough just dealin' with real life Sometimes I wanna on stage and just kill mics And show people what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, I just hate life Somethin ain't right, hit the brake Case of the stage fright, drawin a like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it my fault Great big eyeballs, my insides And I clam up {*wham*} I slam shut I just do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have just vicked So I must get, off the bus then split Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck World on my as I run back to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just up, and travel new land Time to just take 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 right where I'm goin momma I'm grown, I must travel alone gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to 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 pants Tryin' to chase rap, gotta ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she understand Sits in front of the TV, her nose in the pad And just colors the crayon gets dull in her hand While she colors her big and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her little Wish I be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' somethin' I never wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't up yet It's like I grew up, but I grow me two nuts yet Don't gotta rep my step, 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 moment by That I don't to the sky, please I'm beggin' you God Please let me be pigeonholed in no regular job Yo I hope you can hear me wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say you need me baby, I'm never too far But yo I gotta get out there, the only way I And I'mma be back for you, the second that I On everything I own, make it on my own Off to work I go, back to 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma 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 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 follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from 8 Mile Road
You gotta live it to feel it, you you wouldn't get it Or see what the big is, why it was and it still is To be walkin borderline of Detroit city limits It's different, it's a certain significance, a Of authenticity, you'd never see But it's everything to me, it's my You never seen smelled or met a real MC Who's incredible the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, a rough time Sit on the porch with all my and kick dumb rhymes Go to and serve MCs in the lunchline But when it comes crunch time, where do my go Who must I show, to my flow Where must I go, who I know Or am I just another in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to shit I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I out with I look like a bum, yo my ain't about shit At the Salvation Army tryin to salvage an And it's cold, tryin' to travel road Plus I like I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I don't Is from no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and so dark 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 know not What I'm doin I just blow, my head is a top I explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my 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 I meet a new girl I can no longer stupid or be immature 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 a new burst of energy has occurred Time to show these free leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer now, I'm free as a bird Then I turn and cross the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new to really just take matters 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 travel alone Ain't follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Road