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 d rop 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 chokin' how, everybody's jokin' now
 The clock's run out, times up, over, blaw!!

 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 so stagnant he knows
 When he goes back to his 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 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'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, only grows hotter
 He blows it's all over, these h**s 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 cuz here goes the cold water
 These h**s 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 it unfolds
 I suppose it's old partna, but the beat goes on 


 Da da dum, da dum da da 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 mothaf****n' roof off like two dogs caged
 I was playin' in the beginning, the mood all changed
 I 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 9 to 5

 And I can't provide the right type of life for my family
 Cuz man, these *** damn 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 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 day of monotony's
 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 mothaf****n' 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
 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 better

 You can do anything you set your mind to, man