Lose Yourself

[00:33.28] Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity

[00:43.55] To seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment

[00:48.81] Would you capture it, or just let it slip?

[00:52.31] Yo! His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

[00:56.32] There's vomit on his sweater already: Mom's spaghetti

[00:58.83] He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready

[01:01.83] To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting

[01:04.59] What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud

[01:07.09] He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out

[01:10.10] He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now

[01:12.86] The clock's run out, time's up, over—blaow!

[01:15.86] Snap back to reality, ope there goes gravity, ope

[01:19.12] There goes Rabbit, he choked, he's so mad but he won't

[01:22.13] Give up that easy, no, he won't have it, he knows

[01:24.88] His whole back's to these ropes, it don't matter, he's dope

[01:27.64] He knows that but he's broke, he's so stagnant, he knows

[01:30.40] When he goes back to this mobile home, that's when it's

[01:32.91] Back to the lab again yo, this whole rhapsody

[01:35.67] Better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him, and

[01:37.93] You better lose yourself in the music

[01:40.19] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[01:43.19] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[01:46.45] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[01:49.71] You better lose yourself in the music

[01:51.96] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[01:54.72] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[01:57.73] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[01:59.98] You better…

[02:01.24] His soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

[02:03.99] This world is mine for the taking, make me king

[02:06.99] As we move toward a New World Order

[02:09.00] A normal life is boring; but superstardom's

[02:12.00] Close to post-mortem, it only grows harder

[02:14.75] Homie grows hotter, he blows, it's all over

[02:17.51] These hoes is all on him, coast-to-coast shows

[02:20.27] He's known as the Globetrotter, lonely roads

[02:22.79] God only knows, he's grown farther from home, he's no father

[02:26.04] He goes home and barely knows his own daughter

[02:28.80] But hold your nose, 'cause here goes the cold water

[02:31.30] These hoes don't want him no mo', he's cold product

[02:34.31] They moved on to the next schmoe who flows

[02:36.57] He nose-dove and sold nada, and so the soap opera

[02:39.82] Is told, it unfolds, I suppose it's old, partner

[02:42.83] But the beat goes on: da-da-dom, da-dom, dah-dah, dah-dah

[02:45.34] You better lose yourself in the music

[02:47.59] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[02:50.85] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[02:53.85] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[02:56.35] You better lose yourself in the music

[02:58.61] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[03:01.87] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[03:04.87] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[03:07.13] You better…

[03:07.88] No more games, I'ma change what you call rage

[03:10.63] Tear this motherfuckin' roof off like two dogs caged

[03:13.39] I was playin' in the beginning, the mood all changed

[03:15.90] I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage

[03:18.90] But I kept rhymin' and stepped right in the next cypher

[03:22.15] Best believe somebody's payin' the Pied Piper

[03:24.91] All the pain inside amplified by the

[03:27.41] Fact that I can't get by with my nine-to-

[03:30.67] Five and I can't provide the right type of life for my family

[03:33.43] 'Cause man, these goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers

[03:37.69] And there's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life

[03:41.45] And these times are so hard, and it's gettin' even harder

[03:44.46] Tryna feed and water my seed, plus teeter-totter

[03:47.22] Caught up between bein' a father and a prima donna

[03:50.22] Baby mama drama, screamin' on her, too much for me to wanna

[03:52.73] Stay in one spot, another day of monotony's

[03:55.73] Gotten me to the point I'm like a snail, I've got

[03:58.24] To formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot

[04:00.99] Success is my only motherfuckin' option—failure's not

[04:04.50] Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got

[04:07.01] To go; I cannot grow old in Salem's Lot

[04:09.52] So here I go, it's my shot: feet, fail me not

[04:12.02] This may be the only opportunity that I got

[04:14.78] You better lose yourself in the music

[04:17.28] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[04:20.29] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[04:23.29] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[04:26.05] You better lose yourself in the music

[04:28.05] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[04:31.31] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[04:34.56] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[04:37.07] You better…

[04:40.08] You can do anything you set your mind to, man