Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still Why do I put up this fight, why do I write Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill And show these people what my 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 up {*wham*} I just slam shut I just can't do it, my whole Just been stripped, I have been vicked So I must get, off the bus then split Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm goin' the home World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile
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 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 Ain't gon' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these train tracks, to regain back The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same To the same plant, and the 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 of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand she colors her big brother and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her head Wish I could be the that neither one of us had But I runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't up yet It's like I up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet Don't rep my step, don't 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 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 homey you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' this trailer Tell my mother I love her, baby sister goodbye Say whenever you need me baby, I'm too far But yo I get out there, the only way I know And be back for you, the second that I blow On everything I own, I'll it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 Mile
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to 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 gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from 8 Mile Road
You gotta live it to feel it, you you wouldn't get it Or see what the big is, why it was and it still is To be walkin this borderline of Detroit limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, never even see But it's everything to me, my credibility You seen 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 dumb Go to and serve MCs in the lunchline But it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who I show, to bust my flow must I go, who must I know Or am I just crab in the bucket I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm to doubt shit I'm a little skeptical who I hang out with I look a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit At the Salvation tryin to salvage an outfit And it's cold, tryin' to travel this Plus I feel I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I want Is pity from no one, the 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 enough to just make me wanna out of my skin Sometimes I like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm I just blow, my head is a stove 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 I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got every ingredient, all I need is the 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 Time to show these free world leaders the 3 and a I am no longer now, I'm free as a bird Then I turn and cross over the median Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really just take matters my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look (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' follow the footsteps I'm my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Road