Sometimes I just like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes hard enough just dealin' with real life Sometimes I jump on stage and just kill mics And show these people what my level of skill's But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate Somethin ain't right, hit the lights Case of the fright, drawin a blank like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I up {*wham*} I just slam shut I just can't do it, my whole Just stripped, I have just been vicked So I must get, off the bus then split Man fuck this yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time to really just take matters my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma 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 gon' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these tracks, tryin' 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 Poor little baby sister, she understand in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the 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 could be the daddy neither one of us had But I keep 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 moment by That I pray to the sky, please 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 tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' this tomorrow my mother I love her, kiss 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 I'mma be back for you, the second I blow On everything I own, I'll it on my own Off to work I go, to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to stand up, and travel new land Time to really just take matters into my own Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma look back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I right 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
You live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Or see what the big deal is, why it was and it is To be this borderline of Detroit city limits It's different, a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you'd never see But it's everything to me, it's my You never seen heard smelled or met a MC Who's 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 crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who must I show, to my flow Where I go, who must I know Or am I just another crab in the Cause I havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit I'm feelin' a little who I hang 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 Plus I feel I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I want Is pity no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and so dark I feel like I'm just bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends It's enough to just make me jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel like a robot, I just know not I'm doin I just blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the 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 one time for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no next time I meet a new I can no longer stupid or be immature I got every ingredient, all I is the courage I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly a surge a new burst of energy has occurred Time to show these world leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm 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 make a new Time for me to just up, and travel new land to really just take 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 right I'm goin Sorry 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