Sometimes I just like, quittin' 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 wanna jump on stage and just kill And show these people my level of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I just life Somethin ain't right, hit the lights Case of the stage fright, a blank like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my big eyeballs, my insides crawl And I up {*wham*} I just slam shut I just do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I just been vicked So I must get, off the bus then split Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 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 into my own Once I'm over these man I'mma never 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' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile
I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryin' to back The spirit I had I go back to the same crap To the same plant, and the pants Tryin' to chase rap, move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she understand Sits in of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just until the crayon gets dull in her hand she colors her big brother and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what goes on in her little head Wish I 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 grew up, but I ain't grow me two yet gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin' to do what's And I try, sit and I cry Yo I tell no lie, not a moment goes by That I don't to the sky, please I'm beggin' you God Please let me be pigeonholed in no regular job Yo I hope you can me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm this trailer tomorrow Tell my I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye 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 back for you, the that I blow On I own, I'll make it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and new land to really just take 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 where I'm goin 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 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 this borderline of city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd never see But it's to me, it's my credibility You seen heard smelled 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 porch with all my and kick dumb rhymes Go to work and 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 I know Or am I just crab in the bucket Cause I havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to shit I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out I look like a bum, yo my clothes about shit At the Salvation Army tryin to salvage an And it's cold, to travel this road Plus I feel like I'm on in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one I don't want Is from no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by each one of my It's to just make me wanna jump out of my skin I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm doin I just blow, my head is a top I just explode, the kettle so hot Sometimes my just overloads the ass that I don't got But I've learned, it's for me to U-turn Yo it only one time for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no next time I meet a new 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 need is the Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new burst of energy has Time to show these free leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer now, I'm free 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 make a new Time for me to stand up, and travel new land 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 travel gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to from this 8 Mile Road