Sometimes I feel 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 jump on stage and just mics And show people 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 Great big eyeballs, my insides And I clam up {*wham*} I slam shut I just can't do it, my whole Just been stripped, I just been vicked So I must then get, off the bus then Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck World on my shoulders as I run to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan 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 must travel Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm my own way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryin' to 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 Poor little baby sister, she understand in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets in her hand While she her big brother and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what goes on in her little head I could be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never 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 Don't rep my step, don't 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 moment by That I don't to the sky, please I'm beggin' you God don't let me be pigeonholed in no regular job Yo I you can hear me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, baby sister goodbye Say whenever you need me baby, I'm too far But yo I gotta get out there, the only way I And I'mma be for you, the second that I blow 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 make a new Time for me to just up, and travel new land Time to really just matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man 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 gon' follow the footsteps I'm my own Only way that I know how to escape 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 Detroit limits It's different, it's a significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd never see But it's to me, it's my credibility You never heard 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 porch 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 I know Or am I another crab in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm to doubt shit I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out I look like a bum, yo my clothes about shit At the Salvation Army tryin to salvage an And it's cold, to travel this road Plus I feel like I'm on in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I want Is pity from no one, the is no fun There is no sun, and so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' apart From one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to just me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm doin I just blow, my is a stove 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 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 or be immature I got every ingredient, all I need is the Like I already got the beat, all I is the words Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new of energy has occurred Time to show these free world the 3 and a third I am no scared now, I'm free as a bird Then I turn and cross 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 Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really just take matters into my own Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma 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 I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road