Sometimes I just like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just mics And these people what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate Somethin ain't right, hit the brake Case of the stage fright, drawin a like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it my fault Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I clam up I just slam shut I just can't do it, my manhood's Just been stripped, I have been vicked So I must get, off the bus then split Man fuck this yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my as I run back 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 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 where I'm goin momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin' these tracks, tryin' to regain back The spirit I had I go back to the same crap 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 don't 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 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 grew up, but I ain't me two nuts yet gotta 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 no lie, not a moment goes by That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm 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' this trailer Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister 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 that I blow On everything I own, make it on my own Off to I go, back to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma 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 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 Only way that I know how to escape from 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 walkin this borderline of Detroit city It's different, it's a certain significance, a Of authenticity, never even see But it's everything to me, it's my You never seen smelled or met a real MC Who's incredible upon the pedestal as me But yet I'm unsigned, havin' a rough time Sit on the with 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 I show, to bust my flow must I go, who must I know Or am I just another 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 feelin' a little who I hang out with I like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit At the Salvation Army tryin to an outfit And cold, tryin' to travel this road Plus I feel like I'm on in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I want Is pity no one, the city is no fun is no sun, and it's so dark Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled From one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to make me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I 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 one time for me to get burned Ain't no fallin' no next time I a new girl I can no longer stupid or be immature I got every ingredient, all I need is the Like I already got the beat, all I need is the Got the urge, it's a surge Suddenly a new burst of energy has Time to show these free world the 3 and a third I am no longer now, I'm free as a bird I turn and cross over the median curb Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Road
I'm a man, make a new plan Time for me to just up, and travel new land Time to really 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 where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to from this 8 Mile Road