Sometimes I just fell like, quittin i still might
Why do I put up this fight, why do i still write
sometimes it's hard enough just dealin with real life
sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics
And show these people what my level of skill's like
But I'm still white, sometimes i fuckin hate life
somethin ain't right, hit the brake lights
cas of the stage fright, drawin a blank like
Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my fault
Great then I falls, my insides crawl
and I clam up I just slam shut
I just can't do it, my whole manhood's
just been stripped, I have just been vicked
So I must then getm off the bus then slip
Man fuck this shit yo, I'm goin the fuck home
World on my shoylders as
I run back to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'm a make a new plan
Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land
Time to really jyst take matters into my own hands
Once I'm over these tracks man I'm a never look back
8 Mile Road And I'm goin
Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone
And go follow the footsteps I'm makin my own
Only way that I know how to escape from tis 8 Mile Road
I'm walkin these train triacks, tryin to regain back the spirit I had 'fore
I go back to the same crap
To the same plant, and the same pants
Tryin to chase rap, gotta move ASAP
And get a new plan, momma's got a new man
Poor little baby sister, she don't understand
Sits in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad
And just colors unril the crayon gets dyll in her hand
While she colors her big brother and mother and dad
Ain't no tellin what really goes on in her little head
Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had
But l keep rinnin from somethin I never wanted so bad!
Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet
It;s like I grew up, but I ain;t grow me two nuts yet
Dont gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep
The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin to do what' best
And I try, sit alone and l cry
Yo I won't tell no liem not a moment goes by
That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin you God
Please don't let me be bitchin holein no regular job
Yo I hope you can hear me homey wherever you are
Yo I'm tellin trailer tomorrow
Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye
Say whenever you need me baby, I'm never too far
But yo I gotta get out there, the only way I know
And I'm a be back for you, the secomd that l blow
On everything I own, I'll make it on my own
Off to work l go, back to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, i'm a make a new plan
Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land
Time to really just take matters into my own hands
Once I'm over these tracks man I'm a 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 alone
And go Follow the footsteps I'm makin my own
Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it
Or see what the bug deal is, why it wasn't the skillest
To be walkin this borderline of Detroit clty limits
It's different, it;s a certain significance,
a certificate of authenticity, you'd never even see
But it's everything to me , it's my credibility
You never seen heard smelled or met a real MC
who's incredible upon the same pedestal as me
But yet I'm still unsigned, havin a rough time
Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes
Go to work and serve MC's in the lunchline
But when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go
Who must I show, to bust my flow
Where must I go, who must I know
Or amI just another crab in the bucket
Cayse I ain't havin no luck with this little Rabbiy so fuck it
Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit
I'm feelin a little skeptical who i hang out with I look like a bum,
yo my clothes ain't about shit if the Salbvation Army tryin to salvage an outfit
And it's cold, tryin to travel this road
Plus I feel like I'm on stuck in this battlin mode
My defenses are so up, but on thing
I don't want is pity from no one, the city is no fun
There is no sun, and it;s so dark
Sometimes I feel like
I'm just bein pulled apart i'm torn in my limbs, by each one of my friends
It;s enought to make me just wanna jump ouy of my fucken skin
Sometimes I feel like a robot, some times I just know not
what I'm doin I just blow, my head is a stove top
I just explde, the kettle goets so hot
Sometimes my moyth just overloads the ass that i don't god
But I've learned, it's time for me to U-turn
Yo it only takes one time for me to get burned
Ain't no fallin no next time i meet a new girl
I can no longer play stupid or be immature
I got evert ingredient, all l need is the courage
Like I already got the beat, all I need is the words
Got the urge, suddenly it's a surge
Suddenly a new burst of energy is occured
Time to show these free world leaders the three and a third
I am no longer scared now, i'm free as a bird
Then I thrn and cross over the median curb
Hit the verbs and all you see is a blur
from 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'm a make a new plan
Time for me to just stand up,
and travel new land
Time to really just take matters
into my own hands
Once I'm over these tracks man
I'm a never look back
8 Mile Road And I'm gone
I know righ where i'm goin
Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone
And go Follow the footsteps
I'm makin my own
onlt wat that I know how to escape
from this 8 Mile Road