Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill And show these people what my level of skill's But I'm white, sometimes I just hate life Somethin 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 clam up {*wham*} I slam shut I just do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have been vicked So I must then get, off the bus then Man fuck shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run back to 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time to really just take into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma 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 way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryin' to back The I had 'fore I go back to the same crap To the same plant, and the same Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move 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 until the crayon gets dull in her hand 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 runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad! I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two yet Don't gotta rep my step, don't got 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 goes by That I don't pray to the sky, I'm beggin' you God Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no job Yo I you can hear me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say whenever you me baby, I'm never 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 never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right I'm goin Sorry momma 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 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 city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd even see But it's to me, it's my credibility You never seen heard smelled or met a MC incredible upon the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough Sit on the porch all my friends and kick dumb rhymes Go to work and MCs in the lunchline But it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who I show, to bust my flow Where must I go, who must I 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 shit 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 this road Plus I feel like I'm on stuck in 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 it's so Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' apart 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 just not I'm doin I just blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the gets so hot Sometimes my mouth just the ass that I don't got But I've learned, it's time for me to Yo it only 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 need is the I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly a surge a new burst of energy has occurred Time to show these free world the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird Then I turn and cross the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time to really just matters into my own hands Once I'm these tracks man I'mma 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 gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road