Look, if you had, one shot, or one To everything you ever wanted, one moment Would you it? Or let it slip, yo His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the surface he looks and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so He opens his mouth, but the words won't out chokin' how, everybody's chokin' now The run out, times up, over, blaw! Snap, to reality, oh, there goes gravity Oh, there goes he choked, he's so mad but he won't Give up easy, no, he won't have it he knows 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 hope it don't him You better lose yourself in the The moment, you own it, you better let it go You get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo You better yourself 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, this hole that is gaping This world is mine for the taking, make me As we move toward a new world order, a normal is boring But superstardom's to post mortem It only grows harder, only grows He blows all over, these h**s is all on him Coast to coast shows, he's known as the lonely roads God only knows grown farther from home, he's no father He goes and barely knows his own daughter But hold nose cuz here goes the cold water These h**s don't want him no mo', he's product moved on to the next schmoe who flows He nose dove and sold nada, so the opera is told it unfolds I suppose old partna, but the beat goes on Da da dum, da dum da da da da You better yourself in the music The moment, you own it, you better let it go You get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity once in a lifetime, yo You better lose yourself in the The moment, you own it, you never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your to blow This comes once in a lifetime, yo No games, I'ma change what you call rage Tear this roof off like two dogs caged I was in the beginning, the mood all changed I chewed up and spit out and booed off stage But I rhymin' and stepped, writin' the next cipher Best somebody's payin' the pied piper All the pain inside amplified by the That I can't get by my 9 to 5 And I can't the right type of life for my family Cuz man, these *** damn food stamps buy diapers And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, is my life And these times are so and it's getting even harder Tryin' to and water my seed, plus teeter-totter Caught up between a father and a prima donna Baby mama drama's screamin' on and too much for me to in one spot, another day of monotony's Gotten me to the point I'm a snail got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot Success is my only option, failure's not Mom, I love you, but this got to go I grow old in Salem's lot, so here I go it's my shot fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got You better yourself in the music The moment, you own it, you never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your to blow opportunity 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 chance to blow This opportunity comes in a lifetime, yo You You can do anything you set your to, man