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 dealin' real life I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics And show these what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate 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 crawl And I clam up {*wham*} I just shut I can't do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have just been So I must 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, I'mma make a new for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time to really just matters into my own hands I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look back (8 Road) And I'm gone, I know 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 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 little baby sister, she don't understand Sits in front of the TV, her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her While she colors her big brother and 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 grew up, but I ain't grow me two yet Don't gotta rep my step, got enough pep The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin' to do what's 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 let me be pigeonholed in no regular job Yo I hope you can me homey wherever you are Yo I'm you dawg I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say whenever you 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 that I blow On I own, I'll make it on my own Off to work I go, to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to stand up, and travel new land to really 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 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 this 8 Mile Road
You gotta live it to 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, you'd never see But everything to me, it's my credibility You never seen smelled or met a real MC Who's incredible upon the pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, a rough time Sit on the with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes Go to work and serve MCs in the But when it crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who I show, to bust my flow Where must I go, who must I Or am I another crab in the bucket Cause I ain't no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I 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 clothes about shit At the Army tryin to salvage an outfit And it's cold, tryin' to this road Plus I feel I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I don't Is pity 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 one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to make me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just not What I'm doin I just blow, my head is a top I just explode, the gets so hot Sometimes my just overloads the ass that I don't got But learned, it's time for me to U-turn Yo it only takes one time for me to get Ain't no fallin' no next time I a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got every ingredient, all I need is the I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new of energy has occurred Time to these free world leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird Then I and cross over the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new 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 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