Sometimes I feel like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes it's hard enough dealin' with real life Sometimes I jump on stage and just kill mics And show these people what my level of skill's But I'm still white, sometimes I just life Somethin ain't right, hit the brake Case of the fright, drawin a blank like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it my fault Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I clam up {*wham*} I just slam I can't do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have just vicked So I must then get, off the bus split Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck World on my shoulders as I run 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 man I'mma never look back (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 I'm makin' my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 Mile 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 pants Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she don't Sits in front of the TV, her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her While she colors her big and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her head Wish I be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't up yet It's I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet Don't gotta rep my step, got enough pep The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin' to do 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 don't let me be pigeonholed in no regular job Yo I hope you can hear me homey you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby 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 everything I own, I'll it on my own Off to I go, back to this 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 take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look back (8 Road) And I'm gone, I know right 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 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 walkin this borderline of Detroit city It's different, it's a certain significance, a Of authenticity, you'd never see But it's everything to me, 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 and serve MCs in the lunchline But when it comes crunch time, do my punchlines go Who I show, to bust my flow must I go, who must I know Or am I another crab in the bucket I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to shit I'm feelin' a little who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes about shit At the Salvation Army to salvage an outfit And it's cold, tryin' to this 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 is no sun, and it's so dark Sometimes I like 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 Sometimes I like a robot, sometimes I just know not I'm doin 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 I've learned, it's time for me to Yo it only takes one for me to get burned no fallin' no next time I meet a new girl I can no longer play or be immature I got ingredient, all I need 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 has occurred Time to show these world leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird Then I 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 for me to just stand up, and travel new land 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 know where 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