8 Mile - Eminem Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I still might Why do I put upthis fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin wit real life Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics And show these people what my level of skills like But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life Something ain't right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, drawin a blank light Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my fault Great big eyeballs, my insides crawl And I clam up, I just slam shut I just can't do it, my whole manhoods Just been stripped, I have just been vicked So i must then get, off this bus then split Man fuck this shit yo, I'm going the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 mile road I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time for me to just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back (8 mile road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gunna follow these footsteps, I'm making my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road I'm walking these train tracks, tryin to regain back the spirit I had fore I go back to the same crap To the same plant, in the same pants Tryin to chase rap, gotta move ASAP And get a new plan, mommas got a new mam Poor little baby sister, she don't understand Sits in front of the T.V, buries her nose in the pad And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand While she colors her big brother, her 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 I keep runnin from something 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 Don't got a rep my step, don't got enough pep The pressures to much man, I'm just tryin to do whats best And I try, sit alone and I cry Yo I won't tell no lie, not a moment goes by That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin you god Please don't let me bitchin holdin no regular job Yo I hope you can hear me homey wherever you are Yo I'm tellin you dawg I'm bailin this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye Say whenevr you need me baby I'm never to far But yo I gotta get out there the only way that I know And I'ma be back for you the second that I blow On everything I own, I'll make it on my own Off to work I go, back to this 8 mile road I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time for me to just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back (8 mile road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gunna follow these footsteps, I'm making my own Only way 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 big deal is, why it wasn't the skillest To be walkin this boarder line of Detroit city limits It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificate Of authenticity, you've never even seen But it's everthing to me, it's my credibility You've never seen heard smelled or met a real MC Who's incredible upon the same pedastal as me But yet I'm still unsigned, having a rough time Sit on the porch wit 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 am I just another crab in the bucket Cause I ain't havin no luck with this little Rabbit 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 At the salvation army tryin to salvage an outfit And it's cold tryin to travel this raod Plus I feel like on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, and one thing I don't want Is pity from no one, this city is no fun There is no sun, and it's so dark Sometimes I just feel like I being pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm doin I just blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the kettle gets so hot Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass that I don't got 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 falling no next time I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be immature I got every ingredient, all I 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 has ocurred Time to show these free world leaders at three in the third I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bird Then I turn 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'ma make a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land Time for me to just take matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back (8 mile road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going Sorry mama I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gunna follow these footsteps, I'm making my own Only way I know how to escape from this 8 mile road
