Sometimes I just feel like, I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I write it's hard enough just dealin' with 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, 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 just shut I just do it, my whole manhood's Just been stripped, I have just vicked So I must then get, off the bus then Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm goin' the home World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 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 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 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 escape from 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' train tracks, tryin' to regain back The I had 'fore I go back to the same crap To the same plant, and the pants Tryin' to rap, gotta move ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor baby sister, she don't understand in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just until the crayon gets dull in her hand she colors her big brother and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' really goes on in her little head Wish I could be the daddy neither one of us had But I keep runnin' somethin' I never wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, cause I blew up yet It's like I 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 just 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 don't let me be in no regular job Yo I hope you can hear me wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say whenever you me baby, I'm never too far But yo I get out there, the only way I know And I'mma be back for you, the second that I On I own, I'll make it on my own Off to work I go, back to 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really just take into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone gon' follow the footsteps 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 what the big is, why it was and it still is To be walkin this borderline of city limits different, it's a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd even see But everything to me, it's my credibility You never seen heard 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 all my friends and kick dumb rhymes Go to and serve 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 another crab in the Cause I ain't havin' no luck 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 out with I look like a bum, yo my clothes about shit At the Salvation Army tryin to an outfit And it's cold, to travel this road Plus I feel like I'm on stuck in this battlin 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 I feel like I'm just bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by each one of my It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my Sometimes I feel a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm doin I just blow, my head is a top I explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass that I got But I've learned, it's time for me to Yo it only takes one for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no next time I meet a new 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 Suddenly a new of energy has occurred Time to show free world leaders the 3 and a third 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 from 8 Mile Road
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 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' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from 8 Mile Road