Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still 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 kill And these people what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I just life Somethin right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, drawin a like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it my fault Great big eyeballs, my insides And I clam up {*wham*} I just shut 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, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really take matters into my own hands I'm over these tracks 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' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to from 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 chase rap, gotta ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor baby sister, she don't understand in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets in her hand While she her big brother and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' really goes on in her little head Wish I be the daddy 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 grew up, but I ain't me two nuts yet Don't 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 won't tell no lie, not a moment by That I don't pray to the sky, I'm beggin' you God Please don't let me be 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 get out there, the only way I know And I'mma be back for you, the 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 stand up, and travel new to really just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over 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 that I know how to from this 8 Mile Road
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 borderline of Detroit city limits It's different, a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd never see But it's everything to me, my credibility You never seen heard or met a real MC Who's incredible upon the pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough Sit on the with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes Go to and serve MCs in the lunchline But when it comes crunch time, where do my go Who I show, to bust my flow Where I go, who must I know Or am I just another in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no luck this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt I'm feelin' a little who I hang out with I look a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit At the Salvation tryin to salvage an outfit And cold, tryin' to travel this road Plus I feel like I'm on stuck in this mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I want Is pity no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and so dark I feel 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 out of my skin Sometimes I feel like a robot, I just know not What I'm I just blow, my head is a stove top I explode, the kettle gets 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 only takes one time for me to get Ain't no fallin' no next I meet a new girl I can no longer play or be immature I got ingredient, all I need is the courage Like I already got the beat, all I is the words Got the urge, it's a surge Suddenly a new burst of energy has Time to show these world leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird I turn and cross over the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a 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 matters into my own I'm over these tracks man I'mma 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 Ain't gon' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to from this 8 Mile Road