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' with life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill And show these what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I hate life ain't right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, drawin a like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it my fault big eyeballs, my insides crawl And I clam up {*wham*} I slam shut I can't do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have just been So I must then get, off the bus split Man this shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my as I run back to this 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 these tracks man I'mma never look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm 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 this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these train tracks, to regain back The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the crap To the same plant, and the same Tryin' to chase rap, move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she don't in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon dull in her hand While she colors her big brother and and dad Ain't no what really goes on in her little head I could be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never so bad! Sometimes I get upset, I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I grow me two nuts yet Don't gotta rep my step, don't got pep The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin' to do what's And I try, sit and I cry Yo I won't tell no lie, not a 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 I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss 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 for you, the second that I blow On everything I own, I'll it on my own Off to I go, back to this 8 Mile 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 matters 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 Sorry momma I'm grown, I must 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 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 borderline of Detroit city limits It's different, a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd even see But everything to me, it's my credibility You never heard smelled 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 kick rhymes Go to and serve MCs in the lunchline But when it comes time, where do my punchlines go Who must I show, to bust my Where must I go, who I know Or am I just another crab in the Cause I havin' no luck 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 a bum, yo my clothes ain't 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 it's so Sometimes I like I'm just bein' pulled apart From one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just not What I'm doin I just blow, my is a stove top I just explode, the kettle so hot Sometimes my mouth overloads the ass that I don't got But I've learned, it's for me to U-turn Yo it only takes one time for me to get Ain't no 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 I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new of energy has occurred to show these free world leaders the 3 and a third I am no scared now, I'm free as a bird Then I and cross over the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new 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 where I'm goin 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 Road