Sometimes I just feel like, I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still 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 just life ain't 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 crawl And I up {*wham*} I just slam shut I can't do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have just vicked So I then get, off the bus then split Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really take 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 where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm these train 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 chase rap, move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little sister, she don't understand Sits in front of the TV, buries her in the pad And just colors until the crayon dull in her hand While she colors her big brother and and dad Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her little Wish I could be the that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from somethin' I wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, 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 no lie, not a moment goes by I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin' you God Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no job Yo I hope you can me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' this trailer Tell my mother I 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 for you, the second that I blow On everything I own, make it on my own Off to I go, back to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to just up, and travel new land to really just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry 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 from this 8 Mile
You live it to feel 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 It's different, it's a significance, a certificate Of authenticity, never even see But it's everything to me, my credibility You never seen heard smelled or met a MC Who's incredible the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick rhymes Go to work and serve MCs in the But when it comes time, where do my punchlines go Who must I show, to my flow Where must I go, who I know Or am I just another 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 startin to doubt I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about At the Salvation Army to salvage an outfit And it's cold, to travel this road Plus I 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 is no sun, and it's so dark Sometimes I feel I'm just bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just not I'm doin I just blow, my head is a stove top I explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my mouth just the ass that I don't got But learned, it's time for me to U-turn Yo it only one time for me to get burned no fallin' no next time I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got every ingredient, all I is the courage Like I already got the beat, all I is the words Got the urge, it's a surge a new burst of energy has occurred 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 and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to stand up, and travel new land Time to really take matters into my own hands Once I'm these 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 alone Ain't follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road