Look, if you had one shot, one To everything you ever wantedone moment Would you it or just let it slip?
His palms are sweaty, weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he on forgettin What he wrote down, the crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth, but the words come out He's chokin, how jokin now The clock's run out, up over, bloah! Snap back to reality, oh goes gravity Oh, there rabbit, he choked He's so mad, but he won't give up Is he? no He won't have it , he knows his whole city's ropes It matter, he's dope He that, but he's broke He's so that he knows When he goes back to his home, that's when it's Back to the lab yo This whole rap He better go capture this moment and hope it don't him
You better yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss chance to blow This opportunity once in a lifetime yo
The soul's escaping, through this hole it's gaping This world is for the taking Make me king, as we move toward a, new world A life is borin, but superstardom's close to post mortar It only grows harder, only grows He blows us all over these is all on him Coast to coast shows, he's as the globetrotter Lonely roads, God only He's grown farther from home, no father He goes home and barely his own daughter But hold your 'cause here goes the cold water his bosses don't want him no mo, he's cold product they moved on to the next schmoe who flows He nose dove and sold So the opera is told and unfolds I suppose it's old potna, but the goes on Da da dum da dum da da
No more games, i'ma change you call rage Tear this roof off like 2 dogs caged I was playin in the beginnin, the mood all I been chewed up and spit out and off stage But I kept and stepwritin the next cypher Best believe somebody's payin the pied All the pain inside amplified by the That I get by with my 9 to 5 And I can't provide the right type of life for my 'cause man, these goddam food stamps don't buy And it's no movie, there's no mekhi phifer, is my life And these times are so hard and it's getting harder Tryin to and water my seed, plus See caught up bein a father and a prima donna mama drama's screamin on and Too for me to wanna in one spot, another jam or not Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a I've got to formulate a plot I end up in jail or shot Success is my only option, failure's not Mom, I love you, but this has got to go I cannot old in salem's lot So I go is my shot. Feet fail me not maybe the only opportunity that I got
You can do you set your mind to, man