Lose Yourself

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity

To seize everything you ever wanted, one moment

Would you capture it or just let it slip? Yo!

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti

He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready

To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgettin what he wrote down

The whole crowd goes so loud

He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out

He's chokin, how? Everybody's jokin' now

The clock's run out, time's up! Over! Bloah!

Snap back to reality

Oh, there goes gravity!

Oh, there goes Rabbit!

He choked, he's so mad

But he won't give up that easy, no!

He won't have it

He knows his whole back to these ropes

It don't matter

He's dope, he knows that

But he's broke

He's so stacked that he knows

When he goes back to his mobile home

That's when it's back to the lab again, yo!

This whole rap city

He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him!

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!

The soul's escaping through this hole that it's gaping

This world is mine for the taking

Make me king!

As we move toward a new world order

A normal life is borin' but superstardom's

Close to post mortar

It only grows harder

Only grows hotter

He blows us all over

These hoes is all on him

Coast to coast shows

He's know as the globetrotter

Lonely roads, God only knows

He's grown farther from home, he's no father

He goes home and barely knows his own daughter

But hold your nose cuz here goes the cold water

His hoes don't want him no mo, he's cold product

They moved on to the next schmoe who flows

He nose dove and sold nada

So, the soap opera is told and unfolds

I suppose it's old potna, but the beat goes on

Da, da, dum, da, dum, da, da!

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!

No more games, I'ma change what you call rage

Tear this mothafuckin' roof off like two dogs caged

I was playin' in the beginnin', the mood all changed

I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage

But I kept rhymin' and stepwritin' the next cypher

Best believe somebody's payin' the pied piper

All the pain inside amplified

By the fact that I can't get by with my nine to five

And I can't provide the right type of life for my family

Cuz man, these goddam food stamps don't buy diapers

And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer

This is my life

And these times are so hard and it's getting even harder

Tryin' to feed and water my seed, plus see dishonor

Caught up between bein' a father and a prima donna

Baby, mama drama's screamin' on

And too much for me to wanna

Stay in one spot, another jam or not

Has gotten me to the point

I'm like a snail

I've got to formulate a plot 'fore I end up in jail or shot

Success is my only mothafuckin' option

Failure's not!

Mom, I love you, but this trail has got to go

I cannot grow old in Salem's lot

So, here I go! Is my shot

Feet fail me not cuz may be the only opportunity that I got!

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment

You own it, you better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo!

You can do anything if set you mind to it, man