Lose Yourself by Eminem

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 goes 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, op! There goes gravity

Op! 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 'cause he knows

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

Back to the lab again, yo, this whole rhapsody

Better go catch 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

 

His soul is 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 lows is all on him, coast-to-coast shows, he's known as the globetrotter

Only grows, 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 it goes to cold water

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

They moved on to the next shmoe who flows

He knows, dove and sold nada, he sold his soul proper

He was told it unfolds, I suppose it's ol' partner

But the beat goes on, da-da-dum, da-dum-dada

 

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, Imma chance what you call rage

Tear this (this, this) 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 boo'd 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 o'

Life for my family, 'cause man, these foodstamps don't buy diapers

And there's no movie, there's no Mikhi Phifer

This is my life

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

Tryna feed and water my seed, plus teeter-totter

Caught up between being a father and a pre-Madonna

Baby mama drama screaming on it, too much for me to wanna

Stale in spot, another damn or not, he's gotten me to a point I'm a snail, I've got

To formulate a plot, or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not

Man I love you, but this trailer's got to go, I can not 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

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