Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I might Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's hard enough dealin' with real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and kill mics And show people what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, I just hate life Somethin right, hit the brake lights of the stage fright, drawin a blank like 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 stripped, I have just been vicked So I must get, off the bus then split Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile
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 Road) And I'm gone, I know 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 from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these tracks, tryin' to regain back The I had 'fore I go back to the same crap To the plant, and the same pants Tryin' to chase rap, gotta 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 colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand While she colors her big brother and and dad Ain't no tellin' really goes on in her little head I could be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' somethin' I never wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, I ain't blew up yet It's like I 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 to do what's 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, please I'm 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 love her, kiss baby sister Say whenever you me baby, I'm never too far But yo I gotta get out there, the way I know And I'mma be for you, the second 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, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and new land 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 momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape 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 everything to me, it's my credibility You never seen heard smelled or met a MC Who's upon the same pedestal as me But yet I'm unsigned, havin' a rough 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 must I show, to bust my Where I go, who must I know Or am I just another in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so it I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't shit At the Salvation Army tryin to an outfit And it's cold, tryin' to this road Plus I feel like I'm on stuck in this battlin My defenses are so up, but one I don't want Is pity from no one, the is no fun is no sun, and it's so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' apart From 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 a robot, sometimes 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 I've learned, it's time for me to Yo it only takes one for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no next time I meet a new I can no longer stupid 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, suddenly a surge a new burst 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 turn and cross over the median Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just up, and travel new land to really just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never 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 follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from 8 Mile Road