8 Mile Chords by Eminem

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_ _ _ [A] Sometimes I just feel like, quitting I still might
Why do I put up this fight, why do I [Dm] still write?
Sometimes [A] it's hard enough just dealing with real life
Sometimes I wanna jump a state and just [A] kill Mike
And so just keep me where my level of skin's like
But I'm still white, sometimes I just [F] hate life
Something [A] ain't right, hit the [Am] brake lights
Pacing the states bright, throwing the [A] plank like
Red light, red light, red light Mike
Break that ice, slide in the sights
And I clam up, I just sling shot, I just can't do it
My whole [A] manhood's just been stripped
I've just been hit, so I must then get
Off the bus then [F] split, man fuck this [A] shit
Yo, I'm going to [Am] fuck home
Roll up my [A] shoulders as I run back to this eight mile home
I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan
Time for me to just stand up, and travel through [Dm] land
Time for me to [A] just take matters into my own [C] hands
[Am] Once I'm over these tracks man, I'ma never look [A] back
And I'm going, I know right where I'm going
Sorry mama, I'm grown, I'ma scrabble [F] alone
And can't follow [A] those footsteps, I'm making my [Am] own
Only way that I know how to [Em] escape from this [A] eight mile road
Walking these train tracks, trying to regain back
The spirit I had, before I go back to the same crap
To the same plant, in the same pants
Trying to chase rap, gotta move ASAP
Get a new plan, mama's got a new man
Poor little baby sister, she don't [F] understand
Sits in front of the [A] TV, buries her nose in the pad
And these colors until it's grand, gets dull in her [A] hand
Watch her colors her big brother, her mother and dad
Ain't no telling what really goes on in her little [F] head
Wish I could be the [A] daddy that even one of us [Am] had
But I keep learning from something I never wanted so [A] bad
Sometimes I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet
It's like I grew up, but I ain't grown in two [F] months yet
Don't gotta [A] rap my step, don't got [Am] enough pep
The rest is [C#] nuance man, I'm just trying to do [A] what's best
And I try, sit alone and I cry
Know I'm on to a little high, not I'm on to a [Dm] spot
That I'm afraid of the [A] sky, please I'm begging you [Am] God
Please don't let me be fishing, holding on regular job
Yo I hope you can [A] hear me homie, wherever you are
Yo I'm telling you girl, I'm bailing this girl a little [F] more
Tell my mother [A] I love her, kiss baby sister [Am] goodbye
Say whatever you [A] 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 [F] that I blow
With everything [A] I own, I'll make it on [Am] my own
Off to [A] work I go, back to this hate my own
I'm a man, gotta make a new plan
Time for me to do stand up, and grab a [F] moon man
Time for me to [Am] take matters into my own hands
Once I'm over these [Em] tracks man, I'ma never look [A] back
And I'm going, I know right where I'm going
Sorry mama I'm grown, I'ma straddle [F] alone
Ain't gonna follow no [A] footsteps, I'm making my [Am] own
Only way that I know how to escape when [A] this hate my own
You don't want to live in suspense, you didn't you wouldn't get it
Well see what the big deal is, why it wasn't the stillest
To be walking this borderline of Detroit city [C] limits
Is different, it's of [C#] such a [Am] significance
Specific in a path of discontent, [A] you'd never even see
But it's everything to me, it's my credibility
[F] You never seen [A] her, it's not a matter for them [Am] to see
Who's incredible or on the same path as Louis [A] Me
Each act is still unsigned, having a rough time
Sit on the porch with all [E] my friends and kick [F] dumb rhymes
Go to [A] work and serve them C's in the [Am] lunch line
But when it comes crunch time, where do my [A] punch lines go?
Who must I show, and buzz my flow?
Where must I go, who [Dm] must I know?
Or [A] am I just another crab in a [Am] bucket?
Cause I ain't having [A] a ruff with this little rabbit's foot bucket
Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm starting to doubt shit
I'm feeling a little skeptical who I hang out with
I look like a bum, no my clothes ain't [Am] about shit
It's a salvation [C#] army trying to salvage the [A] mouth fake
And it's cold, trying to travel this road
Plus I feel like I'm all stuck in this battling [Dm] mode
My chances are [A] so off, and one thing I [Am] don't want
City from no one, this city is [A] no fun
There is no sun, and it's so dark
Sometimes I feel like I'm just being pulled apart
From each one of my links, by each one of my friends
It's enough to just make me want to jump out of my skin
Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not
What I'm doing, I just blow, my head is a stove top
I just explode, the kettle gets so hot
Sometimes my mouth is overloaded, gas 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 on next time I meet a new [Am] girl
I can no longer play stupid or be [A] immature
I got every ingredient, all I need is the courage
Like I already got the beat, all I need is [Dm] confronters
I got the [A] urge, suddenly it's absurd
Suddenly a new burst of energy has occurred
Time to show these three world leaders, free and inferred
I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a [F] bird
Then I turn and [A] cross over the median [Am] curve
Hit the verbs, [A] and all you see is a blur
I'm Nate, my old friend, I'm a man
Gotta make a new plan, time for me to just stand up
And try my [Dm] new land, time for me to [A] just take matters into my own [C] hands
[Am] Once I'm over these [Em] tracks, man, I'ma never look [A] back
My old friend, and I'm gone, I know right where I'm going
Sorry mama, I'm grown, I'm a sprout, a [F] Lulo
Ain't gonna follow no [A] footsteps, I'm making my [Am] own
Only way that I know how to escape from this tape, my world
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