Lose Yourself

Eminem

 

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity

To seize everything you ever wanted…One moment

Would you capture it or just let it slip?

 

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

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

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's 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 shit

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 mortem

It only grows harder,homie grows hotter

He blows us all over, these hoes is all on him

Coast to coast shows, he's known as the globetrotter

Lonely roads got him, he knows he's grown farther from home,

he's no father

He goes home and barely knows his own daughter

But hold ya nose cuz here goes the cold water

The hoes don't want him no more, he's cold prada

They moved on to the next shmo who flows

Who nose dove and sold nada

And so the so proper, His toll, it unfolds

and I suppose it's old, partner, 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'm change for due called rage

Tear this mothafuckin roof off like 2 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 teeter-totter

Caught up between being a father and a pre-madonna

Baby momma drama screamin' on her

Too much for me to wanna stay in one spot

another damn or not has gotten me to the point

I'm like a snail, i've got

To formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot

Success is my only mothafuckin option, failure's not

Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got

To go I cannot grow old in Salem's lot

So here I go is my shot.

Feet fail me not

cuz maybe 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 you set your mind to, man