[00:29.16] Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still might [00:31.29] Why do I put up this fight, why do I still write [00:34.26] Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with real life [00:36.84] Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics [00:39.58] And show these people what my level of skill's like [00:42.17] But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life [00:44.86] Somethin ain't right, hit the brake lights [00:47.60] Case of the stage fright, drawin a blank like [00:50.13] Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my fault [00:53.26] Great big eyeballs, my insides crawl [00:55.98] And I clam up I just slam shut [00:58.22] I just can't do it, my whole manhood's [01:00.85] Just been stripped, I have just been vicked [01:03.22] So I must then get, off the bus then split [01:05.78] Man fuck this shit; yo, I'm goin' the fuck home [01:08.84] World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Road [01:11.73] I'm a man, I'mma make a new plan [01:13.86] Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land [01:16.48] Time to really just take matters into my own hands [01:19.17] Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look back [01:21.89] (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone [01:27.21] Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own [01:29.89] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road [01:32.90] I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryin' to regain back [01:35.56] The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same crap [01:38.16] To the same plant, and the same pants [01:40.84] Tryin' to chase rap, gotta move ASAP [01:43.47] And get a new plan, momma's got a new man [01:45.81] Poor little baby sister, she don't understand [01:48.44] Sits in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad [01:51.17] And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand [01:53.90] While she colors her big brother and mother and dad [01:56.53] Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her little head [01:59.18] Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had [02:01.86] But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad! [02:04.52] Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet [02:07.37] It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet [02:10.10] Don't gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep [02:12.73] The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin' to do what's best [02:15.52] And I try, sit alone and I cry [02:17.87] Yo I won't tell no lie, not a moment goes by [02:20.49] That I don't pray to the sky, please I'm beggin' you God [02:23.20] Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no regular job [02:25.79] Yo I hope you can hear me homey wherever you are [02:28.46] Yo I'm tellin' you dawg I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow [02:31.17] Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye [02:33.78] Say whenever you need me baby, I'm never too far [02:36.40] But yo I gotta get out there, the only way I know [02:39.44] And I'mma be back for you, the second that I blow [02:42.12] On everything I own, I'll make it on my own [02:44.71] Off to work I go, back to this 8 Mile Road [02:47.74] I'm a man, I'mma make a new plan [02:49.95] Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land [02:52.55] Time to really just take matters into my own hands [02:55.31] Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look back [02:57.81] (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone [03:03.15] Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own [03:05.82] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road [03:08.91] You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it [03:11.34] Or see what the big deal is, why it was and it still is [03:14.09] To be walkin this borderline of Detroit city limits [03:16.67] It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificate [03:19.40] Of authenticity, you'd never even see [03:21.92] But it's everything to me, it's my credibility [03:24.44] You never seen heard smelled or met a real MC [03:27.15] Who's incredible upon the same pedestal as me [03:29.99] But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough time [03:32.85] Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes [03:35.64] Go to work and serve MCs in the lunchline [03:38.15] But when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go [03:41.18] Who must I show, to bust my flow [03:43.87] Where must I go, who must I know [03:46.43] Or am I just another crab in the bucket [03:48.62] Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little Rabbit foot so fuck it [03:51.29] Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt shit [03:54.11] I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out with [03:56.83] I look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit [03:59.60] At the Salvation Army tryin to salvage an outfit [04:02.01] And it's cold, tryin' to travel this road [04:04.59] Plus I feel like I'm on stuck in this battlin mode [04:07.21] My defenses are so up, but one thing I don't want [04:10.28] Is pity from no one, the city is no fun [04:12.97] There is no sun, and it's so dark [04:15.54] Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled apart [04:18.24] From each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends [04:20.63] It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin [04:23.23] Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not [04:25.95] What I'm doin I just blow, my head is a stove top [04:28.85] I just explode, the kettle gets so hot [04:31.54] Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass that I don't got [04:34.29] But I've learned, it's time for me to U-turn [04:36.67] Yo it only takes one time for me to get burned [04:39.27] Ain't no fallin' no next time I meet a new girl [04:41.95] I can no longer play stupid or be immature [04:44.51] I got every ingredient, all I need is the courage [04:47.30] Like I already got the beat, all I need is the words [04:50.02] Got the urge, suddenly it's a surge [04:52.59] Suddenly a new burst of energy has occurred [04:55.22] Time to show these free world leaders the 3 and a third [04:57.94] I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bird [05:00.55] Then I turn and cross over the median curb [05:03.23] Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road [05:06.48] I'm a man, I'mma make a new plan [05:08.66] Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land [05:11.40] Time to really just take matters into my own hands [05:14.04] Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never look back [05:16.61] (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone [05:21.95] Ain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm makin' my own [05:24.68] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road [05:28.04]