Lyrics for 8 Mile as interpreted by ruben

8 Mile Lyrics
[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]

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LLkooL-V-
07-04-2003

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This song is about a guy who wants to leave his shitty home and tells u how shitty his home is :P.

btw great song!!

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BlUeDeViL08
05-07-2004

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talks anout his struggles and how he is trying to deal with it.

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EvillilDawggie
06-28-2004

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naw realy!! u 2 are the smartest ppl i have heard from.



P.S.
I hope u were bight enough 2 realiz that was sarcasm, (mind the spelling) I dont have anything against em. lastly what is "anout".

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ledskynyrd
09-18-2004

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I think eminem should just go on and color his skin black. cause he look like the fruitiest little white brother i eva done seen. thank you.

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TheGriffin23
10-16-2004

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Hey Whites have eminem. Blacks have Wayne Brady. We have to keep it balanced. And hatin on Em cuz hes white is dumb

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Sublime_LBC
10-16-2004

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This song is not good. I do like the part were he says
"Maybe I". It really makes the song better

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chipmonk
11-01-2004

Rated -1 
this song, just like all other eminem songs, is compleatly shit. he sucks really bad as does all rap music

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D-Shiznit
12-15-2004

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I encourage every one of you who put down rap, and put down Eminem to put a gun to your head and pull the trigger slowly.

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toolmusik
12-24-2004

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hey, D-Shiznit? I hope you know that all you eminem fans are losers who look towards an icon that bitches and moans about his past and how mommy didnt give him hugs. Thats fine and all but the man basically made a career out of living in a trailer park. The man has no talent in his body whatsoever. He bitches and bitches and makes the occaisonal threat. And BOOM! paycheck time.

P.S. the movie was the best pile of shit on top of a homeless man's chest i've ever seen...really i mean it.

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cloud_9_
12-31-2004

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lololololololololol

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cloud_9_
12-31-2004

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fairplay i think this is one of eminems worsts songs

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D-Shiznit
01-28-2005

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tool, you ignorant, anal-retentive moron, self-expression is (supposed to be) what music is all about, whether it is straight forward, sarcastic whatever.. And on top of that, how is his so-called bitching and bitching isn't by any stretch of the imagination any worse than your bitching about how he's doing this or that wrong when, unless I'm mistaken, you haven't been in his position or even remotely close. You dislike Eminem because he is different than your closed-minded version of what rap is or what you think it's supposed to be. If and when you make it far enough up the ladder to know what it's like (and I mean by talent, not by having anal sex with a producer) THEN, and ONLY then will you have the right to say he's not good enough. Until then, see if you can manage to pop your head out of your rectum long enough to remove your bias and form a well thought out opinion. You might want to call 9-1-1 first though becuase IF you ever do have the inclination to remove your head from your rectum, there is a very real possiblity that you will need the Jaws of Life to do so.

P.S. Don't drop the soap.

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not_so_perfect
02-18-2005

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omg tool lol u r such a mental fuck eminem is the sexiest man alive and his voice is sexy too! and if u think he sucks so much y would u come here? ya u kno deep down u think he is sexy---lol jk but really it just shows ur retard level when u have to go and diss eminem to his fans

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undergroundjoker
03-02-2005

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eminem is a little faggoty bitch who only got his name by blowin dre.personally i think he needs to go get shot in the fuckin head

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taintedanus
04-10-2005

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this song is mad awesome. not everyone can rap. so it is considered a talent. i usually listen to rock and metal but i think rap is just as musical as anything else. its artsy. screw u ppl who r so fuckin narrow minded. dont call urself a real listener if u cant appreciate rap.

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myhotelyear
05-26-2005

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Few people can write like this. The beat and music are so simple so this song is just a three minute exhibition of Eminem and his (if he writes his own) lyrics.

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myhotelyear
05-26-2005

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oh and hey, wampa1 and magnoliafan, don't come in here and bad mouth Eminem or his fans or his genre. Get a life. Don't do that here. Plus I can't see how you can so easily deny an entire genre.

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Chii882
07-27-2005

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This is my absolutely favourite song by him.
I love everything about it. Lyrics, beat, everything.

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cmmlover
08-13-2005

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i love eminem hes so hot

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LPJ0K3R
10-23-2005

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"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"


to me this is the best part of the song....cuz u wouldn't think em would be sayin something like that....i have no idea how many times i say that to myself

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flamebroiledchicken
11-11-2005

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Actually, I think it's supposed to be

"Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no regular job"

To be pigeonholed means to be left aside and ignored

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Gman1
12-16-2005

Rated -1 
Well guess what I think about you bamaman1488. I think YOU are the worst, gayest, dumbest, most idiotic, facetious, inept, asinine, batty, crazy, daffy, daft, ding-a-ling, dull, dumb, dumdum, fatuous, foolhardy, foolish, gorked, half-witted, hare-brained, harebrained, imbecilic, inane, insane, jackass, jerk off, lunatic, moronic, senseless, silly, squirrelly, thick-witted, unintelligent, bsurd, cracked, crazy, daft, deranged, foolish, harebrained, idiotic, loony, mentally incompetent, moronic, nuts, nutty, odd, potty, preposterous, silly, stupid, wacky, breathless, confused, disconnected, discontinuous, discordant, disjointed, disordered, dumb, faltering, inarticulate, incohesive, incomprehensible, incongruous, inconsistent, indistinct, indistinguishable, irrational, jumbled, loose, maundering, muddled, muffled, mumbling, mute, muttered, puzzling, rambling, stammering, stuttering, tongue-tied, uncommunicative, unconnected, uncoordinated, uneven, unvocal, wandering, brainless, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, dodo, doltish, dopy, dotterel, dull, dumb, dummy, foolish, futile, gullible, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, irrelevant, irresponsible, laughable, loser, ludicrous, meaningless, mindless, moronic, naive, nonsensical, obtuse, pointless, puerile, rash, senseless, short-sighted, simple, simple-minded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick, thickheaded, trivial, unintelligent, unthinking, witless, casuistic, cockeyed, dopey, fallacious, false, far out, fatuous, faulty, groundless, hollow, implausible, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, incorrect, invalid, irrational, irrelevant, mad, meaningless bitch that has ever been my displeasure to torment my feeble ears to listen to.

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sk84urlife
02-20-2006

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i dunno how he dus it bt wiv dis song eminem cn entertain all types of listeners hu all like different genres of musik frm hip hop 2 heavy metal. not meny ppl cn do dat so i jst fink hes genious

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wildandcrazyGS
03-18-2006

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good song, great movie, he is so hott

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diablo-evo
06-18-2006

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great song bout struggle to be heard and if you put ur mind to it u can achieve well thats what i think

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