Sometimes I just feel like, I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I write it's hard enough just dealin' with real life Sometimes I jump on stage and just kill mics And these people what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I just life ain't right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, drawin a blank Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my insides And I clam up I just slam shut I just can't do it, my whole been stripped, I have just 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 this 8 Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time to really just matters 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 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 this 8 Mile
I'm walkin' these tracks, tryin' to regain back The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the crap To the same plant, and the pants Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move And get a new plan, got a new man Poor baby sister, she don't 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 Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her head Wish I could be the daddy that one of us had But I keep runnin' somethin' I never wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't up yet It's I grew 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 tell 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' trailer tomorrow my mother I love 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 second I blow On I own, I'll make it on my own Off to I go, back to this 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 matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never 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 follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
You gotta live it to 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 this borderline of city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd never see But everything to me, it's my credibility You never seen smelled or met a real MC Who's upon the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough Sit on the porch with all my friends and dumb rhymes Go to work and MCs in the lunchline But when it comes time, where do my punchlines go Who must I show, to bust my Where I go, who must I know Or am I just crab in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm to doubt 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 tryin to an outfit And it's cold, to travel this road I feel like I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My are so up, but one thing I don't want Is from no one, the city is no fun is no sun, and it's so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' apart From each one of my limbs, by each one of my It's enough to just make me jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I know not What I'm doin I 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 takes one time for me to get burned no fallin' no next time I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got ingredient, all I need is the courage Like I got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly a surge Suddenly a new burst of has occurred Time to show free world leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a Then I turn and over the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to stand up, and travel new land Time to really just take into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never 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 way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road