Sometimes I just like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' real life I wanna 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 ain't right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, a blank like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my insides And I up {*wham*} I just slam shut I just can't do it, my whole Just been stripped, I just been vicked So I must then get, off the bus split Man fuck shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time to really just 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 momma I'm grown, I must alone Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Road
I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryin' to back The spirit I had 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 in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon dull in her hand While she her big brother and mother and dad no tellin' what really goes on in her little head Wish I be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep 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 me two nuts yet gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressure's too much man, I'm tryin' to do what's best And I try, sit and I cry Yo I tell no lie, not a moment goes by I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin' you God Please let me be pigeonholed in no regular job Yo I hope you can hear me wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I 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 I'mma be for you, the second that I blow On everything I own, make it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 Mile
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to 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 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 gotta live it to 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 borderline of Detroit city limits It's different, it's a certain significance, a Of authenticity, never even see But everything to me, it's my credibility You never seen heard or met a real MC incredible upon the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, a rough time Sit on the porch with all my friends and dumb rhymes Go to and serve MCs in the lunchline But when it comes crunch time, where do my go Who must I show, to my flow Where must I go, who must I Or am I just another crab in the Cause I ain't havin' no luck with little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm to doubt shit I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out I look a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit At the Salvation Army to salvage an outfit And it's cold, tryin' to travel this I feel like I'm on stuck in this battlin mode 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' pulled 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 like a robot, sometimes I know not What I'm doin I just blow, my head is a top I explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my mouth overloads the ass that I don't got But I've learned, time for me to U-turn Yo it only takes one for me to get burned no fallin' no next time I meet a new girl I can no play stupid or be immature I got every ingredient, all I need is the 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 free leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird Then I turn and cross over the curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to stand up, and travel new land Time to really just take 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 gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from 8 Mile Road