Sometimes I just like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up fight, why do I still write it's hard enough just dealin' with real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just mics And show these people what my level of like But I'm white, sometimes I just hate life Somethin ain't right, hit the lights Case of the stage fright, drawin a like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I clam up {*wham*} I just shut I just can't do it, my manhood's Just been stripped, I just been vicked So I must then get, off the bus then Man fuck this 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 a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really just take into my own hands Once I'm these tracks man I'mma never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I right where I'm goin 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
I'm walkin' 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 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 gets dull in her hand While she colors her big and mother and dad Ain't no what really goes on in her little head Wish I could be the daddy that one of us had But I keep runnin' from I never wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't up yet It's like I grew up, but I ain't 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 tell no lie, not a moment 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 hear me wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss sister goodbye Say whenever you need me baby, I'm too far But yo I get out there, the only way I know And I'mma be back for you, the that I blow On everything I own, I'll it on my own Off to work I go, 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 into my own Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look (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
You gotta it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Or see what the big deal is, why it was and it is To be walkin this of Detroit city limits It's different, a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd never see But it's to me, it's my credibility You never seen heard or met a real MC Who's incredible upon the same as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb Go to work and MCs in the lunchline But when it comes crunch time, do my punchlines go Who I show, to bust my flow Where must I go, who I know Or am I just another in the bucket Cause I ain't no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt I'm feelin' a skeptical who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about At the Salvation Army to salvage an outfit And it's cold, tryin' to travel road Plus I feel I'm on stuck 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 like I'm bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by each one of my It's enough to just make me jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel 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 my mouth just overloads the ass that I don't got But learned, it's time for me to U-turn Yo it takes one time for me to get burned 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 is the courage Like I got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly a surge Suddenly a new burst of energy has Time to show these free world the 3 and a third I am no longer now, I'm free as a bird I turn and cross over the median 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 just stand up, and new land Time to really take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry I'm grown, I must travel alone gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile