Lose Yourself (From "8 Mile") - The Hollywood LA Soundtrack Orchestra, Howard Shore

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

To seize everything you ever wanted, 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 chokin' how, everybody’s chokin' now

The clock’s run out, times 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 so stagnant that he knows

When he goes back to his mobile home, that’s when it’s

Back to the lab again, yo

This whole 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, you better never let it go

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

This opportunity comes once in a life-time, yo

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 life-time, yo

His 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 order, a normal life is boring

But superstardom’s close to post mortem

It only grows harder, only grows hotter

He blows it’s 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

These hoes don’t want him no mo', he’s cold product

They moved on to the next shmo' who flows, he nose dove, and sold nada

So the soap opera’s told and unfolds, I suppose it’s old partner

But the beat goes on da da dum da dum da da

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 life-time, yo

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 life-time, yo

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 step writin' the next cypher

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 '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 tryin' to feed and water my seed, plus

Teetertotter caught up between 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 day of monotony

Has 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 motherfuckin' 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 with my shot, feet fail me not

This maybe the only opportunity that I got

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 life-time, yo

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 life-time, yo

You can do anything you set your mind to man.