Lose Yourself – English Lyrics
Lyrics & Translation
[English]
♪ Look ♪
♪ If you had ♪
♪ One shot ♪
♪ Or one opportunity ♪
♪ To seize everything you ever wanted ♪
♪ In one moment ♪
♪ Would you capture it, or just let it slip? ♪
♪ 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 choking, how? Everybody's joking now ♪
♪ The clock's run out, time's up, over—blaow! ♪
♪ Snap back to reality, ope there goes gravity, ope ♪
♪ 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's so stagnant, he knows ♪
♪ When he goes back to this mobile home ♪
♪ That's when it's ♪
♪ Back to the lab again yo ♪
♪ This old rap city ♪
♪ 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 lifetime, 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 lifetime, yo ♪
♪ His soul's 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 ♪
♪ Homie 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 schmoe who flows ♪
♪ He nose-dove and sold nada ♪
♪ And so the soap opera ♪
♪ Is told, it unfolds, I suppose it's old, partner ♪
♪ But the beat goes on ♪
♪ Da-da-dom, da-dom, dah-dah, dah-dah ♪
♪ 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 lifetime, 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 lifetime, yo ♪
♪ You better ♪
♪ No more games, I'ma change what you call rage ♪
♪ Tear this motherfuckin' roof off like two dogs caged ♪
♪ I was playin' in the beginning, the mood all changed ♪
♪ I've been chewed up and spit out ♪
♪ And booed off stage ♪
♪ But I kept rhymin' ♪
♪ And stepped right in 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 of life for my family ♪
♪ 'Cause man, these goddamn food stamps ♪
♪ Don't buy diapers ♪
♪ And there's no movie ♪
♪ There's no Mekhi Phifer ♪
♪ This is my life ♪
♪ And these times are so hard ♪
♪ And it's gettin' even harder ♪
♪ Tryna feed and water my seed, plus ♪
♪ Teeter-totter ♪
♪ Caught up between bein' a father and a prima donna ♪
♪ Baby mama drama, screamin' 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 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, 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 ♪
♪ You better never let it go ♪
♪ You only get one shot ♪
♪ Do not miss your chance to blow ♪
♪ This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, 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 lifetime, yo ♪
♪ You better ♪
♪ You can do anything you set your mind to, man ♪
Key Vocabulary
| Vocabulary | Meanings |
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seize /siːz/ B2 |
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opportunity /ˌɒp.əˈtjuː.nɪ.ti/ B2 |
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capture /ˈkæp.tʃər/ B2 |
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slip /slɪp/ B1 |
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nervous /ˈnɜː.vəs/ B1 |
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drop /drɒp/ A2 |
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bombs /bɒmz/ B2 |
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crowd /kraʊd/ B1 |
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rhyme /raɪm/ B2 |
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failure /ˈfeɪ.ljər/ B2 |
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success /səkˈsɛs/ B2 |
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dream /driːm/ B1 |
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world /wɜːld/ B1 |
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Key Grammar Structures
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If you had one shot or one opportunity...
➔ Conditional sentences (Type 2)
➔ This sentence uses the structure 'If + past simple, would + base form' to express a hypothetical situation.
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You better lose yourself in the music...
➔ Imperative mood
➔ The imperative mood is used to give commands or advice.
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This opportunity comes once in a lifetime...
➔ Present simple tense
➔ The present simple tense is used to express general truths or facts.
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He's so mad but he won't give up that easy...
➔ Future simple tense with 'will'
➔ The future simple tense is used to express actions that will happen in the future.
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Success is my only motherfuckin' option...
➔ Noun phrase
➔ A noun phrase consists of a noun and its modifiers, serving as the subject or object in a sentence.
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I've been chewed up and spit out...
➔ Present perfect passive voice
➔ The present perfect passive voice is used to emphasize the action done to the subject rather than who performed the action.
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This may be the only opportunity that I got...
➔ Modal verb 'may'
➔ The modal verb 'may' is used to express possibility.
