Sometimes I just feel like, I still might Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes hard enough just dealin' with real life Sometimes I jump on stage and just kill mics And show these what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I hate life Somethin ain't right, hit the brake Case of the stage fright, a blank like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my big eyeballs, my insides crawl And I up {*wham*} I just slam shut I just can't do it, my whole been stripped, I have just been vicked So I must then get, off the bus then Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run 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 really just take matters 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 Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gon' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these tracks, tryin' to regain back The I had 'fore I go back to the same crap To the same plant, and the pants Tryin' to rap, gotta move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor baby sister, she don't understand Sits in of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors the crayon gets dull in her hand While she colors her big brother and and dad Ain't no tellin' what really on in her little head Wish I could be the daddy that one of us had But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never so bad! Sometimes I get upset, I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I grow me two nuts yet Don't gotta rep my step, don't got 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 don't let me be in no regular job Yo I hope you can me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' this tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss sister goodbye Say whenever you me baby, I'm never too far But yo I get out there, the only 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, 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 take 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 Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
You gotta live it to feel it, you you wouldn't get it Or see the big deal is, why it was and it still is To be walkin this borderline of city limits It's different, 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 the same pedestal as me But yet I'm unsigned, havin' a rough time Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb Go to work and serve MCs in the But when it crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who must I show, to my flow Where must I go, who must I Or am I just another in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit I'm feelin' a skeptical who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes about shit At the Salvation Army tryin to an outfit And it's cold, tryin' to travel this Plus I feel like I'm on in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I want Is from no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I feel I'm just bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my I feel 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 Sometimes my mouth overloads the ass that I don't got But I've learned, it's for me to U-turn Yo it takes one time for me to get burned Ain't no no next time I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got every ingredient, all I need is the Like I already got the beat, all I need is the Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new of energy has occurred to show these free world leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer now, I'm free as a bird Then I turn and over the median curb Hit the and all you see is a blur from 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 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' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Road