Lose Yourself (Original Demo Version) Lyrics by Eminem Listen

Released October 28, 2002 Format CD single, digital download Recorded September 2001 – 2002; (Detroit, Michigan) Genre Hardcore hip hop, alternative hip hop, rap rock Length 5:26 (album version) 4:26 (clean radio edit) Label Shady, Aftermath, Interscope Writer(s) Marshall Mathers, Luis Resto, Jeff Bass Producer(s) Eminem, Jeff Bass (additional producer), Luis Resto (additional producer) Certification 6x Platinum
Yo, if you could just for one minute
Or one split second in time, forget everything
Everything that bothers you or your problems
Everything and follow me

If I was frozen inside of a moment
If I could capture time inside a capsule
And have a glass full of sand in the palm of my hand, it passes through it
If I can grasp it and just control what happens to it
Then I can trap it so no more time elapses through it
If raps could do it, maybe I could tap into it
Then I could try to channel it through Cadillac’s and Buicks
To transmit through 'em and make you put your ass into it
And that's when you hit the roof because you can't sit through it
Your passion’s too much for you to not be dancing to it
And as you do it, your movements become fast and fluent
You're mashin' to it, mashing until you're black and bluish
And shit you're acting foolish, this music it has influenced you to be rowdy but in an orderly flash into it
True it's chaotic, but it's got your body moving as a unit
Uniting together tonight, so make it last and you gotta just

Lose yourself in this music
This moment we own it, we won't never let it go
You better move yourself ‘cause tomorrow's ass can wait
There is no time, to sit there and procrastinate

You better lose yourself in this music
This moment we own it, we won't never let it go
You better move yourself ‘cause tomorrow's ass can wait
There is no time, to sit there and procrastinate( you better)

‘cause when we descend together, we begin to move as one
In perfect unison just like the moon and sun
Illuminate the room and humans soon become aluminum
Rhythmically in sync, if you'll excuse the pun
But if you could lose it once, I mean if you could let it go
Relax, take a breath, and just let it exit slow
To rest your soul, you could leave the rest to me
If I could give the world a hit with ecstasy
To make 'em feel the feeling that I'm feeling right this minute
‘cause I feel like the night won't end ‘til I get finished
So close the shades, makin' sure no light gets in it
The sky's the limit tonight ‘cause the night's infinite
A high percentage, of black people and white mixed in it
But no one really gives a fuck ‘cause they just like what's spinnin'
His life was spinnin', the whole entire night just spinnin'
Like life's beginning so come out from inside your skin and quit

Lose yourself in this music
This moment we own it, we won't never let it go
You better move yourself ‘cause tomorrow's ass can wait
There is no time, to sit there and procrastinate

You better lose yourself in this music
This moment we own it, we won't never let it go
You better move yourself ‘cause tomorrow's ass can wait
There is no time, to sit there and procrastinate

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