Sometimes I just like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with real Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and kill mics And show these people what my level of like But I'm still white, I just hate 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 insides And I clam up {*wham*} I just slam I just can't do it, my whole Just been stripped, I have just vicked So I then get, off the bus then split Man this shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my as I run back 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 these tracks man I'mma look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin 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 from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' train tracks, tryin' to regain back The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same 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 Sits in front of the TV, buries her in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her While she colors her big and mother and dad no tellin' what really goes on in her little head Wish I could be the that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from I never wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I blew up yet It's I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressure's too man, I'm just tryin' to do what's best And I try, sit and I cry Yo I won't no lie, not a moment goes by That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm you God Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no job Yo I hope you can hear me wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' this tomorrow Tell my I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say whenever you need me baby, I'm too far But yo I gotta get out there, the way I know And be back 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, make 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 these man I'mma 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
You gotta 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 this borderline of Detroit city limits It's different, a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, never even see But it's everything to me, my credibility You never heard smelled or met a real MC Who's incredible upon the same as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a time Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb Go to work and MCs in the lunchline But when it crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who must I show, to bust my Where I go, who must I know Or am I just another crab in the Cause I havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit I'm a little skeptical who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes about shit At the Salvation Army to salvage an outfit And cold, tryin' to travel this road Plus I feel I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one I don't want Is pity no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's to just make me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I know not What I'm doin I just blow, my head is a top I just explode, the gets so hot Sometimes my just overloads the ass that I don't got But I've learned, time for me to U-turn Yo it takes one time for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no next I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got every ingredient, all I is the courage I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, it's a surge Suddenly a new of energy has occurred Time to these free world leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer now, I'm free as a bird Then I and cross over the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a from 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 take matters 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 momma I'm grown, I must travel Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from 8 Mile Road