Lose Yourself - Live at Civic Theater, Newcastle, Australia

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

There's vomit on his sweater already, Mom's spaghetti, and 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 rose so loud

He opens his mouth but the words won't come out

And he's choking now, everybody's joking now, and the clock's run out, time's up

Snap back to reality, oh, there goes gravity

Oh, there goes rabbit, he's 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

He's broke, he's stagnant, he knows when he goes back to his mobile home, it's

Back to the lab again, oh, this old rhapsody

Better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

You better lose yourself in the music the moment you own it

Better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime

His soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping

This world is mine for the taking, and make me king

As we move toward a new world order, a normal life is boring

But super stardom is close to post mortem

It only grows harder, he only grows hotter, he blows, it's all over, these hoes is all on him

Coast to coast shows, he's known as a 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 to cold water

His hoes don't want him no more, he's cold product

They moved on to the next Shmo 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, ba-da-da-dum-da-dum

You better lose yourself in the music the moment you own it

Better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime

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

Tear this motherfucking roof off like two dog's cage

And I was playing in the beginning and the mood all changed

Well, I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage

But I kept rhyming and stepped right in the next cypher

Best believe somebody's paying the Pied Piper

All this 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 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, screaming on her too much for me to wanna

Stay in one spot, another day of monotony's gotten me to the point I'm like a snail

I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot

Success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not

And Mom, I love you, but this trail has got to go

I cannot grow old in Salem's lot, but here I go, it's my shot

Feet, fail me not

This may be the only opportunity that I got

You better lose yourself in the music the moment you own it

Better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime

You better lose yourself in the music the moment you own it

Better never let it go

You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow

This opportunity comes