8 Mile Road
[Eminem
Sometimes I just feel like, quittin I still migh
Why do I put up this fight, why do I still writ
Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin with real lif
Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mic
And show these people what my level of skill's lik
But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate lif
Somethin ain't right, hit the brake light
Case of the stage fright, drawin a blank lik
Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my faul
Great big eye balls, my insides craw
and I clam up I just slam shu
I just can't do it, my whole manhood'
just been stripped, I've just been rippe
So I must then get, hope the bus didn't spli
Man fuck this shit yo, I'm goin the fuck hom
World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Roa
[Chorus
I'm a man, I'ma make a new pla
Time for me to just stand up, and travel new lan
Time for me to just take matters into my own hand
Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look bac
(8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goi
Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel the alon
Ain't gonna follow no footsteps, I'm makin my ow
Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Roa
[Eminem
I'm walkin these train tracks, tryin to regain bac
the spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same cra
To the same plant, in the same pant
Tryin to chase rap, gotta move ASA
And get a new plan, momma's got a new ma
Poor little baby sister, she don't understan
Sits in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pa
And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her han
While she colors her big brother, her mother and da
Ain't no tellin what really goes on in her little hea
Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us ha
But I keep runnin from somethin I never wanted so bad
Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't blew up ye
It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts ye
Don't gotta rep my step, don't got enough pe
The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin to do what's bes
And I try, sit alone and I cr
Yo I won't tell no lie, not a moment goes b
That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin you Go
Please don't let me be piegon holed in no regular jo
Yo I hope you can hear me homey wherever you ar
Yo I'm tellin you dawg I'm bailin this trailer tomorro
Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodby
Say whenever you need me baby, I'm never too fa
But yo I gotta get out there, the only way I kno
And I'ma be back for you, the second that I blo
On everything I own, I'll make it on my ow
Off to work I go, back to this 8 Mile Roa
[Chorus
[Eminem
You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get i
Or see what the big deal is, why it was and it still i
To be walkin this borderline of Detroit city limit
It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificat
of authenticity, you'd never even se
But it's everything to me, it's my credibilit
You never seen heard smelled or met a real M
who's incredible, up on the same pedestal as m
But yet I'm still unsigned, havin a rough tim
Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb rhyme
Go to work and serve MC's in the lunchlin
But when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines g
Who must I show, to bust my flo
Where must I go, who must I kno
Or am I just another crab in the bucke
Cause I ain't havin no luck with this little Rabbit so fuck i
Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shi
I'm feelin a little skeptical who I hang out wit
I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shi
at Salvation Army tryin to salvage an outfi
And it's cold, tryin to travel this roa
Plus I feel like I'm old, stuck in this battlin mod
My defenses are so up, and one thing I don't wan
is pity from no one, the city is no fu
There is no sun, and it's so dar
Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein pulled apar
from each one of my limbs, by each one of my friend
It's enough to make me just wanna jump out of my ski
Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know no
what I'm doin I just blow, my head is a stove to
I just explode, the kettle gets so ho
Sometimes my mouth just overloads the gas that I don't go
But I've learned, it's time for me to U-tur
Yo it only takes one time for me to get burne
Ain't no fallin on next time I meet a new gir
I can no longer play stupid or be immatur
I got every ingredient, all I need is the courag
Like I already got the beat, all I need is the word
Got the urge, suddenly it's a surg
Suddenly a new burst of energy is occure
Time to show these free world leaders the three and a thir
I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bir
Then I turn and cross over the median cur
Hit the burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Roa
[Chorus]
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