Lose Yourself-Tough Rhymes

[ti:Lose Yourself] [ar:The Private Rap Club] [al:Rap & Disco] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lose Yourself - Hip Hop Masters [00:32.53]Look if you had one shot or one opportunity [00:40.60] [00:42.21]To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment [00:45.75] [00:47.18]Would you capture it [00:48.23] [00:49.28]Or just let it slip yo [00:51.04] [00:51.90]His palms are sweaty knees weak arms are heavy [00:54.67]There's vomit on his sweater already mom's spaghetti [00:57.59]He's nervous but on the surface he looks calm and ready [01:00.29]To drop bombs but he keeps on forgettin' [01:02.99]What he wrote down the whole crowd goes so loud [01:05.96]He opens his mouth but the words won't come out [01:08.67]He's choking how everybody's joking now [01:11.56]The clock's run out times up over blaoh [01:14.39]Snap back to reality oh there goes gravity [01:17.54]Oh there goes rabbit he choked he's so mad but he won't [01:20.65]Give up that easy he knows he won't have any notes [01:23.26]His whole back's to these ropes it don't matter he's dope [01:26.14]He knows that but he's broke he so stagnant he knows [01:29.00]When he goes back to his mobile home that's when it's [01:31.65]Back to the lab again yo [01:33.20]This whole rhapsody better go capture this moment [01:35.68]And hope it don't pass him [01:36.61]You better lose yourself in the music [01:38.70]The moment you own it you better never let it go [01:41.83]You only get one shot do not miss your chance to blow [01:45.09]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [01:47.99]You better lose yourself in the music [01:50.00]The moment you own it you better never let it go [01:53.20]You only get one shot do not miss your chance to blow [01:56.34]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [01:59.07]His soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping [02:02.46]This world is mine for the taking make me king [02:05.45]As we move toward a new world order a normal life is boring [02:09.57]But superstardom's close to post mortem [02:11.93]It only grows harder homie grows hotter [02:14.79]He blows it's all over these hoes is all on him [02:17.71]Coast to coast shows he's known as the globetrotter lonely roads [02:21.26]God only knows he's grown farther from home he's no father [02:24.70]He goes home and barely knows his own daughter [02:27.12]But hold your nose cause here goes the cold water [02:30.22]These hoes don't want him no more he's cold product [02:33.05]They moved on to the next schmoe who flows [02:35.35]He nose dove and sold nada so the soap opera is told it unfolds [02:39.81]I suppose it's all over but the beat goes on [02:42.63]Da da dum da dum da da da [02:43.90]You better lose yourself in the music [02:45.96]The moment you own it you better never let it go [02:49.33]You only get one shot do not miss your chance to blow [02:52.32]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [02:55.24]You better lose yourself in the music [02:57.17]The moment you own it you better never let it go [03:00.46]You only get one shot do not miss your chance to blow [03:03.49]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [03:06.52]No more games i'ma change what you call rage [03:09.27]Tear this motherf**king roof off like two dogs caged [03:12.08]I was playing in the beginning the mood all changed [03:14.93]I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage [03:17.58]But i kept rhyming and stepped writing the next cypher [03:20.69]Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper [03:23.53]All the pain inside amplified by the fact [03:26.50]That i can't get by with my 9 to 5 [03:29.17]And i can't provide the right type of life for my family [03:33.09]Cause man these f**king food stamps don't buy diapers [03:36.00]And it's no movie there's no mekhi phifer this is my life [03:39.96]And these times are so hard and it's getting even harder [03:42.78]Trying to feed and water my seed plus teeter-totter [03:45.56]Caught up between being a father and a prima donna [03:48.35]Baby mama drama's screaming on and too much for me to wanna [03:51.45]Stay in one spot another day of monotony's [03:54.20]Gotten me to the point i'm like a snail [03:56.04]I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot [03:59.59]Success is my only motherf**king option failure's not [04:03.08]Mom i love you but this trailer's got to go [04:05.63]I cannot grow old in 'salem's lot so here i go it's my shot [04:09.34]Feet fail me not this may be the only opportunity that i got [04:13.15]You better lose yourself in the music [04:15.61]The moment you own it you better never let it go [04:18.85]You only get one shot do not miss your chance to blow [04:21.86]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [04:24.73]You better lose yourself in the music [04:26.81]The moment you own it you better never let it go [04:30.02]You only get one shot do not miss your chance to blow [04:33.16]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [04:35.78]You better [04:36.44] [04:37.75]You can do anything you set your mind to man