Eminem - Lose Yourself

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?

Verse 1:
Yo, his palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms
are heavy

There is vomit on his sweater already
Mom's forgettin' 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 jokin' now
The clock's run out, time's up, over BLOW!
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 this mobile home
That's when it's back to the lab again, yo
This whole rhapsody, better go capture this
moment
And hope it don't collapse on him

Chorus:
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment you own it you better never let
it go, oh
You only get one shot, do not miss your
chance to blow
Cuz 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, oh
You only get one shot, do not miss your
chance to blow
Cuz opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better

Verse 2:
Soul's escapin' through this hole's that is
gaping
This world is mines 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 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
These hoes don't want him no mo', 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
Duh duh doe, duh doe, dah dah dah dah

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
No more games, I'ma change for due called
rage
Tear this muthafuckin' roof off like two
dogs caged
I was playin' in the beginnin', the mood
all changed
I've been chewed up and spit out and booed
off stage
But I kept rhymin' and stepped writin' the
next cipher
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 goddamn food stamps don't
buy diapers

And there's no movie, there's no Mekhi
Pfifer
This is my life and these times are so hard
And it's gettin' even harder tryin' to
feed and water
My seed plus teeter-totter
Caught up between bein' 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 muthafuckin' option,
failure's not
Momma 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
Cuz maybe the only opportunity that I got

[Chorus]

[Outro]
Duh doo
You can do anything you set your mind to,
man