Am - G - F
(2x) + Dm - C - Dm
- E
Am - F - Am - F
(2x)
Am
1. His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy,
F
there's
vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti.
Am
He's nervous, but on the
surface he looks calm and ready
F
to
drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
Am
what
he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud,
F
he
opens his mouth, but the words won't come out.
Am
He's choking, how ? Everybody's joking now,
F G
the
clock's run out, times up, over, blaoh !
Am
2. Snap back to reality, oh, there goes gravity,
F
oh,
there goes Rabbit. He choked, he's so mad.
Am
But he won't give up that
easy, no, he won't have it,
F
G Am
he
knows his whole back's to these ropes, it don't matter he's dope.
F
He knows that but he's broke,
he's so stagnant, he knows
when
he goes back to his mobile home,
Am
that's
when it's back to the lab again, yo.
F
This whole rhapsody better go
capture this moment
G
and
hope it don't pass him.
Am
You better lose yourself in the music,
F G
the moment, you own it, you
better never let it go.
Am
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow,
F G
this opportunity comes once in a
lifetime, yo.
+ repeat CHORUS
Am
3. His soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping
F Am
this
world is mine for the taking, make me king.
F
As we move toward a new world
order, a normal life is boring
Am
but
superstardom's close to post mortem.
F
It only grows harder, homie grows hotter,
Am
he
blows, it's all over, these hoes is all on him.
F
Coast to coast shows, he's
known as the Globetrotter, lonely roads,
Am
God only knows he's grown
farther from home, he's no father,
F
he
goes home and barely knows his own daughter.
Am
But hold your nose cuz here goes the cold water,
F
these
hoes don't want him no more, he's cold product.
Am
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows,
F Am
he
nose dove and sold nada, so the soap opera is told it unfolds,
F
I suppose it's
old partner, but the beat goes on,
G
da da dum, da dum da da da.
Am
You better lose yourself in the music,
F G
the moment, you own it, you
better never let it go.
Am
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow,
F
G
this opportunity comes once in a
lifetime, yo.
+ repeat CHORUS
Am
4. No more games, I'ma change what you call
rage,
F
tear this motherfucking roof off like two dogs
caged.
Am
I was playing in the
beginning, the mood all changed,
F
I've been chewed up and spit
out and booed off stage.
Am
But I kept rhyming and
stepped, writing the next cipher,
F
best
believe somebody's paying the pied piper.
Am
F
All the pain inside amplified
by the fact
Am
that
I can't get by with my 9 to 5.
F
6. And I can't provide the right type of life for my family,
Am
’cause man, these goddamn food
stamps don't buy diapers.
F G
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life,
Am
and
these times are so hard and it's getting even harder.
F
Trying to feed and water my
seed, plus teeter-totter,
Am
caught
up between being a father and a prima donna.
F
Baby mama drama's screaming on
and too much for me to wanna
Am
stay
in one spot, another day of monotony's
F
G
gotten
me to the point I'm like a snail.
Am
I've got to formulate a plot
or end up in jail or shot
F
G Am
success
is my only motherfucking option, failure's not.
Mom, I love you, but this
trailer's got to go,
F
Am
I cannot grow old in 'Salem's
lot. So here I go, it's my shot !
F G
Feet fail me not, this may be the only opportunity that I got.
Am
You better lose yourself in the music,
F G
the moment, you own it, you
better never let it go.
Am
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow,
F G
this opportunity comes once in a
lifetime, yo.
+ repeat CHORUS
+ Am - F - G (6x) ....
(orig.
= capo 5th) (Eminem)