Look, if you had, one shot, or one To seize everything you wanted, one moment you capture it? Or let it slip, yo His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are There's on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he on forgetting he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth, but the words come out chokin' how, everybody's chokin' now The run out, times up, over, blaw! Snap, back to reality, oh, goes gravity Oh, there goes 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 that but he's broke, he so stagnant he knows When he goes back to his home, that's when it's to the lab again, yo This whole better go capture this moment And it don't pass him You better lose yourself in the 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 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 This comes once in a lifetime, yo His soul's escaping, through this that is gaping This world is mine for the taking, make me 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 it's all over, these is all on him Coast to coast shows, he's as the Globetrotter lonely roads God only knows he's grown farther home, he's no father He goes home and knows his own daughter But your nose cuz here goes the cold water These h**s want him no mo', he's cold product They on to the next schmoe who flows He nose dove and nada, so the soap opera is told it unfolds I suppose 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 to blow This opportunity once in a lifetime, yo 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 comes once in a lifetime, yo No more games, change what you call rage Tear this 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 cipher Best believe somebody's payin' the piper All the pain inside by the fact That I can't get by my 9 to 5 And I provide the right type of life for my family Cuz man, *** damn food stamps don't buy diapers And it's no movie, there's no Phifer, this is my life And these times are so hard and it's getting even Tryin' to feed and water my seed, teeter-totter Caught up between bein' a and a prima donna Baby mama drama's screamin' on and too 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 a plot or end up in jail or shot Success is my only option, failure's not Mom, I love you, but trailer's 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 opportunity that I got You better yourself in the music The moment, you own it, you better let it go You only get one shot, do not 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 get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This comes once in a lifetime, yo You You can do you set your mind to, man