Lose Yourself

[00:36.26] Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity

[00:45.59] To seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment

[00:51.10] Would you capture it, or just let it slip?

[00:54.02] Yo! His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

[00:58.28] There's vomit on his sweater already: Mom's spaghetti

[01:01.29] He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready

[01:04.04] To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting

[01:06.80] What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud

[01:09.55] He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out

[01:12.56] He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now

[01:15.33] The clock's run out, time's up, over, blaow!

[01:18.33] Snap back to reality, ope there goes gravity, ope

[01:21.59] There goes Rabbit, he choked, he's so mad but he won't

[01:24.60] Give up that easy, no, he won't have it, he knows

[01:27.26] His whole back's to these ropes, it don't matter, he's dope

[01:29.92] He knows that but he's broke, he's so stagnant, he knows

[01:32.68] When he goes back to this mobile home, that's when it's

[01:35.18] Back to the lab again yo, this whole rhapsody

[01:37.94] Better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him, and

[01:40.48] You better lose yourself in the music

[01:42.48] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[01:45.25] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[01:48.76] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[01:51.77] You better lose yourself in the music

[01:53.41] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[01:56.41] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[01:59.93] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[02:02.84] You better…

[02:03.23] His soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

[02:05.63] This world is mine for the taking, make me king

[02:09.14] As we move toward a New World Order

[02:11.90] A normal life is boring; but superstardom's

[02:14.65] Close to post-mortem, it only grows harder

[02:17.06] Homie grows hotter, he blows, it's all over

[02:19.81] These hoes is all on him, coast-to-coast shows

[02:22.72] He's known as the Globetrotter, lonely roads

[02:24.86] God only knows, he's grown farther from home, he's no father

[02:28.37] He goes home and barely knows his own daughter

[02:30.88] But hold your nose, 'cause here goes the cold water

[02:33.88] These hoes don't want him no mo', he's cold product

[02:36.65] They moved on to the next schmoe who flows

[02:38.79] He nose-dove and sold nada, and so the soap opera

[02:42.05] Is told, it unfolds, I suppose it's old, partner

[02:45.31] But the beat goes on: da da dum da dum da da da da

[02:48.06] You better lose yourself in the music

[02:49.96] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[02:52.62] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[02:55.89] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[02:58.89] You better lose yourself in the music

[03:00.65] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[03:04.06] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[03:07.32] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[03:09.82] You better…

[03:10.48] No more games, I'ma change what you call rage

[03:12.63] Tear this motherfuckin' roof off like two dogs caged

[03:15.89] I was playin' in the beginning, the mood all changed

[03:18.39] I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage

[03:21.16] But I kept rhymin' and stepped right in the next cypher

[03:24.16] Best believe somebody's payin' the Pied Piper

[03:27.18] All the pain inside amplified by the

[03:29.93] Fact that I can't get by with my 9-to-5

[03:33.50] And I can't provide the right type of life for my family

[03:36.66] 'Cause man, these goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers

[03:39.56] And there's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life

[03:43.57] And these times are so hard, and it's gettin' even harder

[03:46.59] Tryna feed and water my seed, plus teeter-totter

[03:49.34] Caught up between bein' a father and a prima donna

[03:52.10] Baby mama drama, screamin' on her, too much for me to wanna

[03:55.11] Stay in one spot, another day of monotony's

[03:57.87] Gotten me to the point I'm like a snail, I've got

[04:00.27] To formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot

[04:03.28] Success is my only motherfuckin' option, failure's not

[04:06.79] Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got

[04:08.79] To go; I cannot grow old in Salem's Lot

[04:11.55] So here I go, it's my shot: feet, fail me not

[04:14.56] This may be the only opportunity that I got

[04:16.97] You better lose yourself in the music

[04:19.23] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go (go)

[04:22.24] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[04:25.76] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[04:28.52] You better lose yourself in the music

[04:30.52] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go (go)

[04:33.52] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[04:36.79] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[04:39.54] You better…

[04:41.84] You can do anything you set your mind to, man