Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with real Sometimes I wanna on stage and just kill mics And show these people what my of skill's like But I'm still white, I just hate life Somethin 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 {*wham*} I slam shut I just can't do it, my whole Just been stripped, I have just vicked So I must then get, off the bus split Man fuck this yo, I'm goin' the fuck home on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time to just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look 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 Only way that I know how to from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryin' to regain The spirit I had I go back to the same crap To the same plant, and the same Tryin' to chase rap, gotta ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she don't Sits in of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors 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' from somethin' I never so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two yet Don't rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressure's too much man, I'm tryin' to do what's best And I try, sit and I cry Yo I won't tell no lie, not a moment by That I don't pray to the sky, 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 you dawg I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say whenever you me baby, I'm never too far But yo I gotta get out there, the only way I 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 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to just 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 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 I'm makin' my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
You live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Or see the big deal is, why it was and it still is To be walkin this of Detroit city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, never even see But everything to me, it's my credibility You never seen heard smelled or met a 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 serve MCs in the But when it comes crunch time, where do my go Who must I show, to my flow must I go, who must I know Or am I just another in the bucket Cause I ain't 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 little skeptical who I out with I look like a bum, yo my ain't about shit At the Salvation Army tryin to salvage an And it's cold, tryin' to this road I feel like I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one I don't want Is pity no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I feel I'm just bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by each one of my enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just not What I'm I just blow, my head is a stove top I explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass I don't got But I've learned, time for me to U-turn Yo it only takes one time for me to get Ain't no fallin' no time I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got every ingredient, all I is the courage Like I already got the beat, all I is the words Got the urge, suddenly it's a a new burst of energy has occurred Time to show these free leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a Then I 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 make a new Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to just take matters into my own hands 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 alone Ain't gon' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape this 8 Mile Road