Lyrics: Eminem - Lose Yourself

Lose Yourself
Eminem

Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity
To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it or just let it slip?
Yo

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs,
But he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down,
The whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's choking how, everybody's joking now
The clock's run out, time's up over, bloah!

Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that
Easy, no
He won't have it , he knows his whole back's to these ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stagnant, he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again, yo
This whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

Hook:
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
(You better)

The soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king, as we move toward a new world order
A normal life is boring, but superstardom's close to post mortem
It only grows harder, only grows hotter
He blows us all over these hoes is all on him
Coast to coast shows, he's known as the globetrotter
Lonely roads, God only knows
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose 'cause here goes the cold water
His hoes don't want him no more, he's cold product
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose dove and sold nada
So the soap opera is told and unfolds
I suppose it's old partner but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da

Repeat Hook

No more games, I'ma change what you call rage
Tear this motherfucking roof off like 2 dogs caged
I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed
I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
But I kept rhyming and stepped right into the next cypher
Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the fact
That I can't get by with my 9 to 5
And I can't provide the right type of life for my family
Cause man, these goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life
And these times are so hard, and it's getting even harder
Trying to feed and water my seed, plus
Teeter totter caught up between being a father and a prima donna
Baby mama drama's screaming on and
Too much for me to wanna
Stay in one spot, another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot or I end up in jail or shot
Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's lot
So here I go it's my shot.
Feet fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got

Repeat Hook

You can do anything you set your mind to, man

First single from the motion picture soundtrack "8 mile" released in 2002. Movie starred Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Brittany Murphy and Taryn Manning. Track was included in his compilation album, Curtain Call: The Hits.
The track won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and help him win the Grammy for Best Male Rap Solo Performance and Best Rap Song.
Track peaked at #1 on Billboard Hot 100, O3 Austria Top 40, Ultratop 50, Canadian Singles Chart, Eurochart Hot 100, Hungarian Singles Top 10, Dutch Top 40 and Billboard Pop Songs. Song was ranked #28 on the Billboard Hot 100 Decade (2000-2009) End Chart.
Track is ranked #4 on VH1's Best Songs of the 2000s, #12 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the 2000s, #57 on NME's 150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Year (2011), #93 on the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Songs from American Films and #166 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (2004).
Track is certified Quintuple Platinum in the US, Quadruple Platinum in Australia, Platinum in Austria, Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland; Gold in Finland, France, Germany, Greece, and Japan; and Silver in UK.
Music video was directed by Eminem, Paul Rosenberg and Phillip G. Atwell. Video won the Best Video from a Film at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.
Track has been parodied by Weird Al Yankovic (2003) and has been covered by the East Village Opera Company.
Written by Eminem, Jeff Bass and Luis Resto. Produced by Eminem and Jeff Bass.

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