Lose Yourself

[00:34.41] Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity

[00:43.91] To seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment

[00:48.92] Would you capture it, or just let it slip?

[00:53.16] Yo! His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

[00:56.42] There's vomit on his sweater already: Mom's spaghetti

[00:58.91] He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready

[01:01.91] To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting

[01:04.92] What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud

[01:07.91] He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out

[01:10.42] He's choking, how? Everybody's joking now

[01:13.16] The clock's run out, time's up, over—blaow!

[01:15.91] Snap back to reality, ope there goes gravity, ope

[01:19.41] There goes Rabbit, he choked, he's so mad but he won't

[01:21.66] Give up that easy, no, he won't have it, he knows

[01:24.16] His whole back's to these ropes, it don't matter, he's dope

[01:27.16] He knows that but he's broke, he's so stagnant, he knows

[01:32.17] When he goes back to this mobile home, that's when it's

[01:32.66] Back to the lab again yo, this whole rhapsody

[01:35.91] Better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him, and

[01:38.67] You better lose yourself in the music

[01:40.66] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[01:43.41] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[01:46.91] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[01:49.16] You better lose yourself in the music

[01:51.66] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[01:54.91] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[01:57.91] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[02:00.17] You better…

[02:00.91] His soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

[02:03.92] This world is mine for the taking, make me king

[02:07.91] As we move toward a New World Order

[02:09.41] A normal life is boring; but superstardom's

[02:12.16] Close to post-mortem, it only grows harder

[02:15.17] Homie grows hotter, he blows, it's all over

[02:17.66] These hoes is all on him, coast-to-coast shows

[02:20.16] He's known as the Globetrotter, lonely roads

[02:23.17] God only knows, he's grown farther from home, he's no father

[02:26.16] He goes home and barely knows his own daughter

[02:29.16] But hold your nose, 'cause here goes the cold water

[02:31.66] These hoes don't want him no mo', he's cold product

[02:34.41] They moved on to the next schmoe who flows

[02:36.91] He nose-dove and sold nada, and so the soap opera

[02:40.16] Is told, it unfolds, I suppose it's old, partner

[02:42.66] But the beat goes on: da-da-dom, da-dom, dah-dah, dah-dah

[02:45.67] You better lose yourself in the music

[02:47.16] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[02:50.91] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[02:53.91] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[02:56.42] You better lose yourself in the music

[02:58.41] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[03:01.91] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[03:05.16] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[03:07.66] You better…

[03:08.41] No more games, I'ma change what you call rage

[03:10.42] Tear this motherfuckin' roof off like two dogs caged

[03:13.41] I was playin' in the beginning, the mood all changed

[03:16.17] I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage

[03:19.16] But I kept rhymin' and stepped right in the next cypher

[03:21.91] Best believe somebody's payin' the Pied Piper

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

[03:27.66] Fact that I can't get by with my nine-to-

[03:29.91] Five and I can't provide the right type of life for my family

[03:34.66] 'Cause man, these goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers

[03:37.41] And there's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life

[03:41.42] And these times are so hard, and it's gettin' even harder

[03:44.41] Tryna feed and water my seed, plus teeter-totter

[03:47.17] Caught up between bein' a father and a prima donna

[03:49.92] Baby mama drama, screamin' on her, too much for me to wanna

[03:54.17] Stay in one spot, another day of monotony's

[03:55.92] Gotten me to the point I'm like a snail, I've got

[03:58.16] To formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot

[04:00.91] Success is my only motherfuckin' option—failure's not

[04:04.66] Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got

[04:06.66] To go; I cannot grow old in Salem's Lot

[04:09.41] So here I go, it's my shot: feet, fail me not

[04:11.92] This may be the only opportunity that I got

[04:14.66] You better lose yourself in the music

[04:17.17] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[04:20.16] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[04:23.17] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[04:25.67] You better lose yourself in the music

[04:29.16] The moment, you own it, you better never let it go

[04:31.17] You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

[04:34.42] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

[04:36.91] You better…

[04:39.91] You can do anything you set your mind to, man