Sometimes I just like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes hard enough just dealin' with real life Sometimes I wanna on stage and just kill mics And show these people what my level of skill's But I'm white, sometimes I just hate life Somethin right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, drawin a blank Da-duh-duh-da-da, it my fault Great big eyeballs, my insides And I clam up {*wham*} I just slam I can't do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have just vicked So I must get, off the bus then split Man this shit; 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 matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must alone gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these train tracks, to regain back The spirit I had I go back to the same crap To the plant, and the same pants Tryin' to rap, gotta move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she understand Sits in of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand While she her big brother and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what really on in her little head Wish I be the daddy that neither one of us had But I runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad! I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet It's like I up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressure's too 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, please I'm 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 bailin' trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby goodbye Say whenever you 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 I own, I'll make it on my own Off to work I go, to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma 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 man I'mma never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right 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 know how to 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, a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd never see But it's everything to me, it's my You never seen heard smelled or met a MC Who's incredible upon the 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 work and serve MCs in the But when it crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who must I show, to bust my Where I go, who must I know Or am I just another in the bucket Cause I havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt I'm a little skeptical who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about At the Salvation Army tryin to salvage an And cold, tryin' to travel this road Plus I like I'm on stuck in this 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 like I'm just pulled apart From one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's to just make me wanna jump out of my skin I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm I just blow, my head is a stove top I explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my mouth overloads the ass that I don't got But I've learned, it's time for me to Yo it only one time for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no next I meet a new girl I can no play 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, suddenly a surge Suddenly a new burst of has occurred Time to these free world leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer 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 from 8 Mile
I'm a man, make 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 never look 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 follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape this 8 Mile Road