[intro]

look, if you had, one shot, or one opportunity

to cease anything you ever wanted, in one moment

what you capture, 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 grows so loud

that he open's his mouth but the words won't come out

he's chokin' how, everybody's jokin' now, the clocks run out, times up,

over, plow!



snat(?),

back to reality, op'

there goes gravity, op'

there goes gravity, choke

he's so mad but he, won't

give up that easy, nope

he won't have it he, knows

he's whole back city's, ropes

it don't matter he's, dope

he knows that but he's, broke

he so sad that he, knows

when he goes back to this moble home

that's when, it's

back to the lab again, yo

this whole raps city better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass

him (you betta)



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

cuz this opportunity comes once in a life-time, yo (you betta)

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

cuz this opportunity comes once in a life-time, yo (you betta)



the souls escaping, through this hole that is gaping

this world is mine for the taking, make me king

as we move toward'a, new world ord'a, a normal life is boring

but superstardoms, close to post mortar

it only grows harder, homie grows hotter

he blows us all over, these hoes is all on him

coast to coast shows he's known as the globe trotter

lonely roads god only knows, he knows he grown farther from home

he's no father, he goes home and barely knows his own daughter

but hold your nose cuz here goes the cold water

these hoes don't want him no mo' he's cold product

they moved on to the next smo' who flows he nose dove, ain't sold notta

so the soap opera's told and unfolds i suppose it's old partner

but the beat goes on da da dum da da dum, notta notta (you betta)



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

cuz this opportunity comes once in a life-time, yo (you betta)

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

cuz this opportunity comes once in a life-time, yo (you betta)



no more games, I'ma change what you call rage

tear this mother fuckin roof off like 2 dogs caged

i was playin in the beginning, the mood all changed

i been chewed up, and spit out and booed off stage

but I kept rhymin and stepwritin the next sypher

best believe somebody's payin the pied piper

all the pain inside amplified by the, fact that

i can't get by with my nine to

five and I can't provide the right type'a

life for my family cuz man, these goddam food stamps don't buy diapers

and it's no movie, there's no Meki Phifer(sp?),

this is my life and these times are so hard and it's getting even harder

tryin to feed and water my seed, plus

see dishonour caught up bein a father and a prima donna

baby mama drama's screamin on and

too much for me to wanna

stay in one spot, another jam or not

has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail i've got

to formulate a plot fore I end up in jail or shot

success is my only mother fuckin option, failure's not

mom, i love you, but this trail has got to go

i cannot grow old in Salem's lot, so here i go is my shot

feet fail me not cuz maybe the only opportunity that i got (you betta)



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

cuz this opportunity comes once in a life-time, yo (you betta)

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

cuz this opportunity comes once in a life-time, yo (you betta)



you can do anything you set your mind to man



(music to fade)

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