[00:00:00] Lose Yourself - MC Cologne [00:00:03] Look if you had one shot one opportunity [00:00:12] To seize everything you ever [00:00:13] Wanted One moment [00:00:17] Would you capture it or just let it slip [00:00:21] Yo [00:00:22] His palms are sweaty knees [00:00:23] Weak arms are heavy [00:00:25] There's vomit on his sweater [00:00:26] Already mom's spaghetti [00:00:27] He's nervous but on the surface [00:00:29] He looks calm and ready [00:00:30] To drop bombs but [00:00:31] He keeps on forgettin [00:00:33] What he wrote down [00:00:34] The whole crowd goes so loud [00:00:36] He opens his mouth [00:00:37] But the words won't come out [00:00:38] He's chokin how everybody's jokin now [00:00:41] The clock's run out time's up over bloah [00:00:44] Snap back to reality Oh there goes gravity [00:00:47] Oh there goes Rabbit he choked [00:00:49] He's so mad but he won't give up that [00:00:51] Is he No [00:00:52] He won't have it he knows [00:00:53] His whole back city's ropes [00:00:55] It don't matter he's dope [00:00:56] He knows that but he's broke [00:00:57] He's so stacked that he knows [00:00:59] When he goes back to his [00:01:00] Mobile home that's when it's [00:01:01] Back to the lab again yo [00:01:03] This whole rap shit [00:01:04] He better go capture this [00:01:05] Moment and hope it don't pass him [00:01:07] You better lose yourself [00:01:08] In the music the moment [00:01:09] You own it you better never let it go [00:01:11] You only get one shot do not [00:01:13] Miss your chance to blow [00:01:15] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [00:01:18] You better lose yourself in [00:01:19] The music the moment [00:01:20] You own it you better never let it go [00:01:22] You only get one shot do not [00:01:25] Miss your chance to blow [00:01:26] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [00:01:28] The soul's escaping through [00:01:30] This hole that it's gaping [00:01:32] This world is mine for the taking [00:01:34] Make me king as we move [00:01:36] Toward a new world order [00:01:38] A normal life is borin but [00:01:39] Superstardom's close to post mortar [00:01:41] It only grows harder only grows hotter [00:01:44] He blows us all over these hoes is all on him [00:01:47] Coast to coast shows he's know as the globetrotter [00:01:50] Lonely roads God only knows [00:01:52] He's grown farther from home he's no father [00:01:54] He goes home and barely knows his own daughter [00:01:57] But hold your nose cuz here [00:01:59] Goes the cold water [00:02:00] His bosses don't want him no [00:02:01] Mo he's cold product [00:02:02] They moved on to the next schmoe who flows [00:02:05] He nose dove and sold nada [00:02:07] So the soap opera is told and unfolds [00:02:09] I suppose it's old potna but the beat goes on [00:02:12] Da da dum da dum da da [00:02:14] You better lose yourself in the [00:02:15] Music the moment [00:02:16] You own it you better never let it go [00:02:18] You only get one shot do not [00:02:21] Miss your chance to blow [00:02:22] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [00:02:25] You better lose yourself [00:02:26] In the music the moment [00:02:27] You own it you better never let it go [00:02:30] You only get one shot do not [00:02:32] Miss your chance to blow [00:02:33] This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [00:02:36] No more games I'ma change what you call rage [00:02:39] Tear this mothaf**kin roof off like 2 dogs caged [00:02:41] I was playin in the beginnin the mood all changed [00:02:44] I been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage [00:02:47] But I kept rhymin and stepwritin the next cypher [00:02:50] Best believe somebody's payin the pied piper [00:02:53] All the pain inside amplified by the fact [00:02:56] That I can't get by with my 9 to 5 [00:02:59] And I can't provide the right type [00:03:01] Of life for my family [00:03:03] Cuz man these goddam food stamps [00:03:04] Don't buy diapers [00:03:06] And it's no movie there's no [00:03:07] Mekhi Phifer this is my life [00:03:10] And these times are so hard and [00:03:12] It's getting even harder [00:03:13] Tryin to feed and water my seed plus