Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes hard enough just dealin' with real life Sometimes I wanna on stage and just kill mics And these people what 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, 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 just do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have been vicked So I must then get, off the bus 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 for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time to really take matters into my own hands Once I'm over tracks man I'mma 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 gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm these train tracks, tryin' to regain 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 sister, she don't understand in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets in her hand While she colors her big and mother and dad no tellin' what really goes on in her little head Wish I be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep runnin' from I never wanted so bad! I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet It's I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet Don't gotta rep my step, 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 tell no lie, not a moment goes 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 you can hear me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' 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 work I go, back to this 8 Mile
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just up, and travel new land Time to really just 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 where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm my own way that I know 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 this borderline of city limits It's different, it's a certain significance, a Of authenticity, you'd never see But it's everything to me, my credibility You never seen heard smelled or met a MC Who's incredible the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a time 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 another in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't shit At the Army tryin to salvage an outfit And it's cold, to travel this road Plus I like I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I want Is from no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I like I'm just bein' pulled apart each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to 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 is a stove top I just explode, the kettle so hot Sometimes my just overloads the ass that I don't got But learned, it's time for me to U-turn Yo it takes one time for me to get burned Ain't no no next time I meet a new girl I can no longer play or be immature I got every ingredient, all I is the courage Like I got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly a surge Suddenly a new burst of energy has Time to these free world leaders the 3 and a third I am no scared now, I'm free as a bird Then I turn and over the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a from 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just up, and travel 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 where 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 from this 8 Mile Road