Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes it's enough just dealin' with real life I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics And show people what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, I just hate life Somethin ain't right, hit the brake Case of the stage fright, a blank like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it my fault Great big eyeballs, my insides And I clam up I just slam shut I just do it, my whole manhood's Just stripped, I have just been vicked So I must get, off the bus then 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 a new plan Time for me to 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 where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryin' to regain The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same To the plant, and the same pants to chase rap, gotta move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man little baby sister, she don't understand Sits in front of the TV, her nose in the pad And just until the crayon gets dull in her hand While she colors her big and mother and dad Ain't no what really goes on in her little head Wish I could be the daddy that one of us had But I runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I ain't me two nuts yet Don't gotta rep my step, got enough pep The too much man, I'm just tryin' to do what's best And I try, sit and I cry Yo I won't tell no lie, not a moment 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 I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby goodbye Say whenever you me baby, I'm never too far But yo I get out there, the only way I know And be back for you, the second that I blow On I own, I'll make it on my own Off to work I go, back to 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really just take 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 Sorry 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 this 8 Mile Road
You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you get it Or see what the big deal is, why it was and it is To be walkin this borderline of Detroit 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 upon the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough Sit on the porch all my friends and kick dumb rhymes Go to work and MCs in the lunchline But it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who I show, to bust my flow Where must I go, who I know Or am I just crab in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so 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 Army tryin to salvage an outfit And cold, tryin' to travel this road Plus I feel I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I don't Is pity no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' apart From one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to just make me wanna out of my skin I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm I just blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the gets so hot Sometimes my mouth just 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 a new girl I can no longer 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, it's a surge Suddenly a new of energy has occurred Time to show these free world the 3 and a third I am no longer now, I'm free as a bird I turn and cross over the median curb Hit the and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma 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 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 footsteps I'm my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Road