| Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
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| To seize everything you ever wanted, in one moment
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| Would you capture it, or just let it slip?
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| Yo! |
| His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
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| There's vomit on his sweater already: Mom's spaghetti
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| He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
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| To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
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| What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
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| He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
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| He's choking, how? |
| Everybody's joking now
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| The clock's run out, time's up, over—blaow!
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| Snap back to reality, ope there goes gravity, ope
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| There goes Rabbit, he choked, he's so mad but he won't
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| Give up that easy, no, he won't have it, he knows
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| His whole back's to these ropes, it don't matter, he's dope
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| He knows that but he's broke, he's so stagnant, he knows
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| When he goes back to this mobile home, that's when it's
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| Back to the lab again yo, this whole rhapsody
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| Better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him, and
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| You better lose yourself in the music
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| The moment, you own it, you better never let it go
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| You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
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| This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
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| You better lose yourself in the music
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| The moment, you own it, you better never let it go
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| You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
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| This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
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| You better…
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| His soul's escaping through this hole that is gaping
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| This world is mine for the taking, make me king
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| As we move toward a New World Order
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| A normal life is boring; |
| but superstardom's
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| Close to post-mortem, it only grows harder
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| Homie grows hotter, he blows, it's all over
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| These hoes is all on him, coast-to-coast shows
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| He's known as the Globetrotter, lonely roads
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| God only knows, he's grown farther from home, he's no father
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| He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
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| But hold your nose, 'cause here goes the cold water
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| His hoes don't want him no mo', he's cold product
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| They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
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| He nose-dove and sold nada, and so the soap opera
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| Is told, it unfolds, I suppose it's old, partner
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| But the beat goes on: da-da-dom, da-dom, dah-dah, dah-dah
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| You better lose yourself in the music
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| The moment, you own it, you better never let it go
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| You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
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| This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
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| You better lose yourself in the music
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| The moment, you own it, you better never let it go
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| You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
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| This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
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| You better…
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| No more games, I'ma change what you call rage
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| Tear this motherfuckin' roof off like two dogs caged
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| I was playin' in the beginning, the mood all changed
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| I've been chewed up and spit out and booed off stage
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| But I kept rhymin' and stepped right in the next cypher
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| Best believe somebody's payin' the Pied Piper
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| All the pain inside amplified by the
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| Fact that I can't get by with my nine-to-
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| Five and I can't provide the right type of life for my family
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| 'Cause man, these goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers
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| And there's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life
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| And these times are so hard, and it's gettin' even harder
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| Tryna feed and water my seed, plus teeter-totter
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| Caught up between bein' a father and a prima donna
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| Baby mama drama, screamin' on her, too much for me to wanna
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| Stay in one spot, another day of monotony's
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| Gotten me to the point I'm like a snail, I've got
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| To formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot
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| Success is my only motherfuckin' option—failure's not
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| Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got
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| To go; |
| I cannot grow old in Salem's Lot
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| So here I go, it's my shot: feet, fail me not
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| This may be the only opportunity that I got
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| You better lose yourself in the music
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| The moment, you own it, you better never let it go
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| You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
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| This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
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| You better lose yourself in the music
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| The moment, you own it, you better never let it go
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| You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
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| This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
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| You better…
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| You can do anything you set your mind to, man |