Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' real life Sometimes I jump on stage and just kill mics And show these people what my level of like But I'm white, sometimes I just hate life Somethin ain't right, hit the brake Case of the fright, drawin a blank like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it my fault Great big eyeballs, my insides And I clam up {*wham*} I just shut I just do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have been vicked So I must get, off the bus then split Man fuck 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 Time for me to stand up, and travel new land Time to really just take 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 goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel Ain't follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' train tracks, tryin' to regain back The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same To the same plant, and the same Tryin' to chase rap, move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man little baby sister, she don't understand Sits in front of the TV, buries her in the pad And just colors the crayon gets dull in her hand While she her big brother 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 keep runnin' from somethin' I wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I ain't me two nuts yet Don't rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressure's too 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 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 my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say you need me baby, I'm never too far But yo I gotta get out there, the way I know And I'mma be back for you, the that I blow On I own, I'll make 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 to really just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right I'm goin 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 this 8 Road
You gotta it to feel 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, it's a certain significance, a Of authenticity, you'd even see But it's to me, it's my credibility You never seen heard smelled or met a MC Who's incredible upon the same as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a time Sit on the with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes Go to work and MCs in the lunchline But when it comes crunch time, where do my go Who must I show, to bust my Where must I go, who I know Or am I just crab in the bucket 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 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 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 so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm just pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my 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 mouth overloads the ass that I don't got But I've learned, time for me to U-turn 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 play or be immature I got every ingredient, all I need is the Like I already got the beat, all I is the words Got the urge, suddenly a surge Suddenly a new burst of has occurred 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 blur from 8 Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to just stand up, and 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 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