Sometimes I just like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still it's hard enough just dealin' with real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill And these people what my level of skill's like But I'm white, sometimes I just hate life ain't right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, a blank 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 been So I then get, off the bus then split Man fuck shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run back to this 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 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 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 escape from this 8 Road
I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryin' to regain The I had 'fore I go back to the same crap To the same plant, and the same Tryin' to rap, gotta move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she don't in front of the TV, buries 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 I could 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 I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet gotta 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 tell no lie, not a moment by That I pray to the sky, please I'm beggin' you God Please don't let me be in no regular job Yo I you can hear me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' this trailer my mother I love 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 I own, I'll make it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 Mile
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really just 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 Sorry momma I'm grown, I travel alone Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you get it Or see what the big deal is, why it was and it is To be this borderline 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 seen heard smelled or met a real MC Who's upon the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a time Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick rhymes Go to work and MCs in the lunchline But when it comes crunch time, do my punchlines go Who must I show, to bust my must I go, who must I know Or am I just another crab in the I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit I'm a little skeptical who I hang out with I look a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit At the Army tryin to salvage an outfit And it's cold, tryin' to travel this I feel like I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I don't Is pity from no one, the is no fun There is no sun, and it's so I feel like I'm just bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by each one of my 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 doin I just blow, my head is a top I explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass I don't got But learned, it's time for me to U-turn Yo it only one time for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no time I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got every ingredient, all I is the courage I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, it's a surge Suddenly a new burst of energy has Time to show these free leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird Then I turn and cross over the 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 stand up, and travel new land Time to really just take into my own hands 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 Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road