Look, if you had, one shot, or one To seize everything you wanted, one moment Would you it? Or let it slip, yo His are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's He's nervous, but on the surface he calm and ready To bombs, but he keeps on forgetting What he wrote down, the crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth, but the won't come out He's chokin' how, chokin' now The run out, times up, over, blaw! Snap, back to reality, oh, there gravity Oh, goes Rabbit he choked, he's so mad but he won't Give up that easy, no, he won't have it he His whole back's to these ropes, it don't matter dope He knows but he's broke, he so stagnant he knows When he goes back to his mobile home, when it's to the lab again, yo This whole rhapsody better go capture this And it don't pass him You lose yourself in the music The moment, you own it, you never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to This comes once in a lifetime, yo You better lose in the music The moment, you own it, you better let it go You only get one shot, do not miss chance to blow This opportunity comes in a lifetime, yo His soul's escaping, through hole that is gaping This world is for the taking, make me king As we move toward a new order, a normal life is boring But superstardom's to post mortem It only grows harder, grows hotter He blows all over, these h**s is all on him Coast to coast shows, known as the Globetrotter lonely roads God only knows grown farther from home, he's no father He goes and barely knows his own daughter But hold your nose cuz goes the cold water These h**s don't want him no mo', he's cold They moved on to the next schmoe who He nose dove and sold nada, so the soap opera is told it I it's old partna, but the beat goes on Da da dum, da dum da da da da You lose yourself in the music The moment, you own it, you never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to This comes once in a lifetime, yo You better lose in the music The moment, you own it, you better let it go You only get one shot, do not miss chance to blow This opportunity comes in a lifetime, yo No more games, change what you call rage Tear mothaf****n' roof off like two dogs caged I was in the beginning, the mood all changed I been chewed up and out and booed off stage But I kept rhymin' and stepped, writin' the next Best believe somebody's payin' the piper All the pain inside by the fact I can't get by with my 9 to 5 And I can't provide the right type of for my family Cuz man, these *** damn food stamps don't buy And it's no movie, there's no Phifer, this is my life And these are so hard and it's getting even harder Tryin' to feed and my seed, plus teeter-totter Caught up between bein' a father and a donna Baby mama drama's on and too much for me to wanna Stay in one spot, day of monotony's me to the point I'm like a snail I've got to formulate a or end up in jail or shot Success is my only mothaf****n' option, not Mom, I love you, but this got to go I cannot grow old in Salem's lot, so I go it's my shot Feet fail me not, this may be the only that I got You better lose in the music The moment, you own it, you better let it go You only get one shot, do not your chance to blow This comes once in a lifetime, yo You lose yourself in the music The moment, you own it, you better let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your to blow This comes once in a lifetime, yo You You can do you set your mind to, man