Lose Yourself-Straight Up

[ti:Lose Yourself] [ar:Original Cartel] [al:Gangsta Lean: Hip Hop Mix] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lose Yourself - Straight Up [00:03.01]Look if you had one shot or one opportunity [00:10.89] [00:12.70]To seize everything you ever wanted one moment [00:16.32] [00:17.32]Would you capture it [00:18.23] [00:19.65]Or just let it slip yo [00:21.71] [00:22.47]His palms are sweaty knees weak arms are heavy [00:25.05]There's vomit on his sweater already mom's spaghetti [00:27.10] [00:28.02]He's nervous but on the surface [00:29.55]He looks calm and ready [00:30.90]To drop bombs but he keeps on forgettin' [00:32.85] [00:33.41]What he wrote down the whole crowd goes so loud [00:36.39]He opens his mouth but the words won't come out [00:39.27]He's choking how Everybody's joking now [00:41.93]The clock's run out times up over blaoh [00:44.98]Snap back to reality oh there goes gravity [00:47.82]Oh there goes Rabbit He choked [00:49.67]He's so mad but he won't [00:51.05]Give up that easy no he won't have it he knows [00:53.52]His whole back's to these ropes [00:55.30]It don't matter he's dope [00:56.61]He knows that but he's broke [00:58.03]He so stagnant he knows [00:59.21]When he goes back to his mobile home [01:01.08]That's when it's [01:01.79]Back to the lab again yo [01:03.45]This whole rhapsody better go capture this moment [01:05.65] [01:06.18]And hope it don't pass him [01:07.55]You better lose yourself in the music [01:09.36]The moment you own it [01:10.45]You better never let it go [01:12.21]You only get one shot [01:13.66]Do not miss your chance to blow [01:15.48]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [01:18.50]You better lose yourself in the music [01:20.18]The moment you own it you better never let it go [01:23.27]You only get one shot [01:24.64]Do not miss your chance to blow [01:26.63]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [01:29.32]His soul's escaping through that is gaping [01:32.75]This world is mine for the taking make me king [01:35.92]As we move toward a new world order [01:38.37]A normal life is boring [01:39.95]But superstardom's close to post mortem [01:42.15]It only grows harder homie grows hotter [01:44.95]He close It's all over these girls is all on him [01:48.11]Coast to coast shows [01:49.33]He's known as the Globetrotter lonely roads [01:51.68]God only knows he's grown farther from home [01:53.99]He's no father [01:55.16]He goes home and barely knows his own daughter [01:57.39] [01:57.92]But hold your nose cause here goes the cold water [02:00.69]These girls don't want him no more [02:02.49]He's cold product [02:03.57]They moved on to the next schmoe who flows [02:05.93]He nose dove and sold nada [02:07.75]So the soap opera is told it unfolds [02:10.24]I suppose it's all over but the beat goes on [02:12.95]Da da dum da dum da da da [02:14.57]You better lose yourself in the music [02:16.24]The moment you own it [02:17.54]You better never let it go [02:18.92] [02:19.48]You only get one shot [02:20.95]Do not miss your chance to blow [02:22.73]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [02:25.35]You better lose yourself in the music [02:27.40]The moment you own it [02:28.90]You better never let it go [02:30.56]You only get one shot [02:32.13]Do not miss your chance to blow [02:33.81]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [02:36.59]No more games I'ma change what you call rage [02:39.71]Tear this roof off like two dogs caged [02:42.10]I was playing in the beginning [02:44.17]The mood all changed [02:45.19]I've been chewed up and spit out [02:46.84]And booed off stage [02:48.01]But I kept rhyming and stepped [02:49.67]Writing the next cypher [02:51.14]Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper [02:53.98]All the pain inside amplified by the fact [02:57.05]That I can't get by with my 9 to 5 [02:59.87]And I can't provide the right type [03:01.88] [03:02.41]Of life for my family [03:03.39]Cause man these food stamps don't buy diapers [03:06.60]And it's no movie there's no Mekhi Phifer [03:09.45]This is my life [03:10.16]And these times are so hard [03:12.06]And it's getting even harder [03:13.19]Trying to feed and water my seed [03:14.87]Plus teeter-totter caught up between [03:17.10]Being a father and a prima donna [03:19.10]Baby mama drama's screaming on [03:20.51]And too much for me to wanna [03:22.06]Stay in one spot another day of monotony's [03:24.01]Gotten me to the point I'm like a snail [03:26.34]I've got to formulate a plot [03:27.85]Or end up in jail or shot [03:29.87]Success is my only mama fuking option failure's not [03:33.44]Mom I love you but this trailer's got to go [03:35.89]I cannot grow old in 'Salem's lot [03:38.28]So here I go it's my shot [03:39.69]Feet fail me not [03:40.94]This may be the only opportunity that I got [03:43.64]You better lose yourself in the music [03:45.74]The moment you own it [03:47.13]You better never let it go [03:48.86]You only get one shot [03:50.26]Do not miss your chance to blow [03:52.36]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [03:54.98]You better lose yourself in the music [03:57.02]The moment you own it [03:58.44]You better never let it go [04:00.14]You only get one shot [04:01.86]Do not miss your chance to blow [04:03.37]This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo [04:06.22]You better [04:06.66] [04:08.57]You can do anything you set your mind to man