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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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
