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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1708598,"song":"8 Mile","artist":"Eminem","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1708598-8-mile-chords-by-eminem/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1708598?type=chord","rating":4.44336,"votes":13,"content":"[Intro] (x2)\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]Fm[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSometimes I just feel like, quitting I still might[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhy do I put up this fight, why do I still write[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fm[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSometimes it's hard enough just dealing with real life[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd show these people what my level of skill's like[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fm[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSomething ain't right, hit the brake lights[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nCase of the stage fright, drawing a blank like[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDa-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my fault[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBreaking eye balls, my insides crawl[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fm[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nand I clam up (wham) I just slam shut[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nI just can't do it, my whole manhood's[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\njust been stripped, I have just been vicked[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSo I must then get off the bus then split[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Fm[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMan fuck this shit yo, I'm going the fuck home[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nWorld on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Road[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm a man, I'ma make a new plan[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTime for me to just stand up, and travel new land[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Fm[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTime to really just take matters into my own hands[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOnce I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\n(8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Fm[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm making my own[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOnly way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm walking these train tracks, trying to regain back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nthe spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same crap[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fm[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo the same plant, and the same pants[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nTrying to chase rap, gotta move ASAP[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd get a new plan, momma's got a new man[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nPoor little baby sister, she don't understand[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Fm[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSits in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhile she colors her big brother and mother and dad[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAin't no telling what really goes on in her little head[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Fm[/ch]                              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBut I keep running from something I never wanted so bad![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSometimes I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fm[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDon't gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe pressure's too much man, I'm just trying to do what's best[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I try, sit alone and I cry[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYo I won't tell no lie, not a moment goes by[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Fm[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThat I don't pray to the sky, please I'm begging you God[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nPlease don't let me be pigeon holed in no regular job[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYo I hope you can hear me homey wherever you are[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYo I'm telling you dawg I'm balling this trailer tomorrow[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Fm[/ch]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                              [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSay whenever you need me baby, I'm never too far[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut yo I gotta get out there, the only way I know[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I'ma be back for you, the second that I blow[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Fm[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOn everything I own, I'll make it on my own[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOff to work I go, back to this 8 Mile Road[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm a man, I'ma make a new plan[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTime for me to just stand up, and travel new land[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Fm[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTime to really just take matters into my own hands[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOnce I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\n(8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Fm[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm making my own[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOnly way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOr see what the big deal is, why it wasn't the skillest[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Fm[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTo be walking this borderline of Detroit city limits[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nIt's different, it's a certain significance,[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nA certificate of authenticity, you'd never even see[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut it's everything to me, it's my credibility[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]Fm[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYou never seen heard smelled or met a real MC[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nwho's incredible upon the same pedestal as me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut yet I'm still unsigned, having a rough time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fm[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGo to work and serve MC's in the lunchline[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBut when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWho must I show, to bust my flow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                          [ch]Fm[/ch]\r\nWhere must I go, who must I know[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nOr am I just another crab in the bucket[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nCause I ain't having no luck with this little rabbit's foot, fuck it[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMaybe I need a new outlet, I'm starting to doubt shit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm feeling a little skeptical who I hang out with[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Fm[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI look like a bum, yo my clothes ain't about shit[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAt the Salvation Army trying to salvage an outfit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd it's cold, trying to travel this road[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nPlus I feel like I'm on stuck in this battling mode[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Fm[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nMy defenses are so up, but one thing I don't want[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nIs pity from no one, the city is no fun[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere is no sun, and it's so dark[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSometimes I feel like I'm just being pulled apart[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]Fm[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIm torn in my limbs, by each one of my friends[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nIt's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhat I'm doing I just blow, my head is a stove top[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fm[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI just explode, the kettle gets so hot[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSometimes my mouth just overloads the acid I don't got[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut I've learned, it's time for me to U-turn[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nYo it only takes one time for me to get burned[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Fm[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAin't no calling her next time I need a new girl[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nI can no longer play stupid or be immature[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI got every ingredient, all I need is the courage[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nLike I already got the beat, all I need is the words[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Fm[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nGot the urge, suddenly it's a surge[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSuddenly a new burst of energy has occurred[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTime to show these free world leaders the three and a third[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bird[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Fm[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThen I turn and cross over the median curve[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nHit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm a man, I'ma make a new plan[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTime for me to just stand up, and travel new land[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Fm[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTime to really just take matters into my own hands[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOnce I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\n(8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm going[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]Fm[/ch]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nain't gon' follow the footsteps I'm making my own[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nOnly way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro] (x2)\nAm    Fm Am C Bm\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["Am","Fm","C","Bm","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Fm":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,1,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,1,1,1]}}}