Eminem:Lose Yourself

**"Lose Yourself"** é uma música do rapper Eminem, para o filme *8 Mile: Rua das Ilusões* de 2002. A música aborda as dificuldades de Eminem no início da carreira.

## Letra

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 choking, how?

Everybody's jokin' now

The clock's run out, time's up, over Blow!

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's so sad that he knows

When he goes back to this mobile home that's when it's

back to the lab again, yo

This whole rhapsody

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

You better lose yourself in the music

The moment that you own it, bitch you better never let it go, oh

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

'cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime go

You better lose yourself in the music

The moment that you own it, bitch you better never let it go, oh

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

'cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

You better

Soul's escapin' 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 us 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 ya nose 'cause here goes the cold water

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

And they moved on to the next schmoe who flows

and he knows dove and sold nada

And so the soap opera is 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 that you own it, bitch you better never let it go, oh

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

'cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime go

You better lose yourself in the music

The moment that you own it, bitch you better never let it go, oh

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

'cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

You better

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

Tear this muthafuckin' roof off like two dogs caged

I was playin' in the beginnin', the mood all changed

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

But I kept rhymin' and stepwritin' the next cipher

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 tryin' to feed and water my seed

plus see disohnor

Caught up between bein' a father and a pre-madonna

Baby momma drama, screamin' on her

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

'fore end up in jail or shot

Success is my only muthafuckin' 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

'cause maybe the only opportunity that I got

You better lose yourself in the music

The moment that you own it, bitch you better never let it go, oh

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

'cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime go

You better lose yourself in the music

The moment that you own it, bitch you better never let it go, oh

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

'cause opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

You better

You can do anything if you set your mind to man

## Curiosidades

* "Rabbit" era um dos apelidos de Marshall.
* No verso "And it's gettin' even harder tryin' to feed and water my seed", "seed" quer dizer a filha de Eminem.