Lose Yourself (From "8 Mile")

Look

If you had

One shot

Or one opportunity

To seize everything you ever wanted

In 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 forgetting

What he wrote down

The whole crowd grows so loud

He opens his mouth

But the words won't come out

He's choking how

Everybody's joking now

The clock's run out, time's up, over, blaow

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 sad that he knows

When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's

Back to the lab again, yo

This whole rhapsody

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 (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 (go)

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

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime (You better)

The soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping

This world is mine for the taking

Make me king, as we move toward a New World Order

A normal life is boring, but superstardom's close to post-mortem

It only grows harder, homie grows hotter

He blows, it's all over, these hoes is all on him

Coast-to-coast shows, he's known 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 'cause here goes the cold water

These hoes don't want him no more, he's cold product

They moved on to the next schmoe who flows

He nose-dove and sold nada, and so the soap opera

Is told, it unfolds, I suppose it's old, partner

But the beat goes on, da-da-dom, da-dom, dah-dah, dah-dah

You better lose yourself in the music

The moment you own it, you better never let it go (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 (go)

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

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime (you better)

No more games, I'm a change what you call rage

Tear this motherfucking roof off like two dogs caged

I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed

I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage

But I kept rhyming and stepped right into the next cypher

Best believe somebody's paying 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

'Cause man, these goddamn 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

Trying to feed and water my seed, plus

Teeter-totter caught up between being a father and a prima donna

Baby, mama drama's screaming on her

Too much for me to wanna

Stay in one spot, another day of monotony's gotten me

To the point, I'm like a snail

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

Success is my only motherfucking 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 it's my shot

Feet, fail me not

This 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 (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 (go)

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

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime (you better)

You can do anything you set your mind to, man