Sometimes I feel like, quittin' I still might Why do I put up this fight, why do I still Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and kill mics And show people what my level of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I hate life Somethin right, hit the brake lights 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 {*wham*} I just slam I just can't do it, my whole Just been stripped, I just been vicked So I must then get, off the bus then Man fuck this yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time to really take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look back (8 Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry 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 this 8 Road
I'm these train tracks, tryin' to regain back The spirit I had 'fore I go to the same crap To the plant, and the same pants Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she don't in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon dull in her hand she colors her big brother and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her head Wish I be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep from somethin' I never wanted so bad! Sometimes I get upset, I ain't blew 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 pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin' to do what's 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 hear me wherever you are Yo I'm tellin' you I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister 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 Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time to really just 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 goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must alone gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape this 8 Mile Road
You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you get it Or see what the big deal is, why it was and it is To be walkin this borderline of Detroit limits It's different, it's a certain significance, a Of authenticity, never even see But everything to me, it's my credibility You seen heard smelled or met a real MC Who's incredible the same pedestal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a time Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick rhymes Go to work and MCs in the lunchline But when it comes crunch time, where do my go Who I show, to bust my flow Where must I go, who must I Or am I just another crab in the Cause I ain't havin' no luck this little Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to 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 to salvage an outfit And it's cold, to travel this road Plus I feel I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one I don't want Is pity no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and it's so Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled From one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to just make me 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 just overloads the ass that I got But I've learned, it's 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 play 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, it's a surge Suddenly a new of energy has occurred Time to show these free world the 3 and a third I am no longer scared now, I'm as a bird Then I turn and cross the median curb Hit the and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just 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 right where 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