[Eminem]  Sometimes I just feel 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 just hate life  Somethin ain't right, hit the brake lights  Case 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 (wham) 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 get, off the bus then slip  Man fuck this shit yo, I'm goin the fuck home  World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Road    [Chorus]  I'm a man, I'ma 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'ma 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    [Eminem]  I'm walkin these train tracks, 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 until the crayon gets dull 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 I keep runnin 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  Don't gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep  The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin to do what's 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 be 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 whenever you need me baby, I'm never too far  But yo I gotta get out there, the only way 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    [Chorus]    [Eminem]  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 borderline of Detroit city 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 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  if the Salvation 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 one 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 enough to make me just 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 fallin 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 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 turn and cross over the median curb  Hit the verbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road    [Chorus]