Lose Yourself

Edited (Clean) Version of Lose Yourself By Eminem

Author’s Note: This piece explains the meaning of the song: Lose Yourself (edited) By Eminem

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?

Eminem always says his message or point of singing this song in the beginning of it. Right now he asks you if you have the preparation, and focus to achieve greatness in one opportunity. He tells you that in order for you to own  it, you must  lose all sense of the surrounding world in and literally lose yourself in this one moment……

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 jokin now
The clock's run out, time's up, over bloah

Eminem talks about what it is like to “Choke” or forget your lyrics, and now he goes on to tell you how important it is that you lose yourself in the moment and focus, so you don’t miss your only chance at success.

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 city ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stacked that he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again yo
This whole rhapsodyBetter go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him

Eminem now says that if you don’t capture the moment and fail, that you must not give up, and just start fighting again. He also strives AGAIN to drive the point that you can’t let the moment end.

[Chorus:]
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,

He now strives yet AGAIN!!!! To tell you that this opportunity comes only once in a lifetime, and that you must lose yourself in the moment…….

Blind Leading

There can be good, and bad leaders. Some leaders strive for power, and some look after the welfare of their people. This can be a common theme in life, and also in the book: The Boy in The Striped Pajamas. In this book, there is a blind leader named Adolph Hitler.

Hitler strives for power, and glory to himself. This tears apart his country, and scars their past with war. He is destined to lose, purely because he is too selfish to care about the people working for him. This theme is the same in the book; The Hunger Games, President Snow rules for all power over his citizens of Panem. He is too focused on his control to see that there is an ever-growing rebel army plotting against him. Snow was unsuccessful because he killed off the people that he ruled. He forced them to kill each other to survive. Snow was soon out-numbered by his enemies.

            There is also a theme of good leaders in each of these books. Hitler’s enemy: America, has joined forces with others and looked after them, to assure a great alliance. These healthy nations fight as one to destroy these blind rulers. Again, this is the same with The Hunger Games. President Snow has scarred his people, and that causes them to rise up and follow a promising ruler: Katniss Everdeen. Katniss truly cares about the people of Panem. This causes them to follow her lead, and rise up against Snow. Katniss is powered by care and unity, which makes her the undeniable winner of the war.

            If you choose to become a leader - and want to be a good one - then you must love your purpose. A good leader would lay everything down on the line, if it would help their people. The reason that these bad leaders couldn’t succeed is that they cared most about themselves. Hitler used his own people as human shields, and Snow killed his people for power.  This teaches us that if you have selfishness in your life, that your goals will most likely not be reached.           i5 � n H�& (�& the side to hear it better. There was a wet sensation occurring by his left ear, and it was weird, because he could feel it. He swiped the affected area, and felt a kind of thick saliva. Steven was appalled, and looked up. The second his head moved, the beast lunged from the tree, and seized Steven’s neck. His life was now over. 

There's a Monster in the Woods

The deep growl made Steven shudder with an impenetrable fear. Maybe the rumors were correct, maybe there was a big brown beast lurking in the darkness of the woods. Maybe he was just hearing things, but he was sure that the cougar was there. He peered into the dark, but it was no use. The black of night covered him like a blanket of cement. Steven couldn’t see his hand inches from his face. He fumbled to find his phone and turned on the bright screen. What he saw would forever change him. It was Chance who stood there with, hackles up, lips curled, foam dripping from his mouth, growling at him.

“It’s okay boy.” Steven cooed, as the dog’s soul-piercing eyes stayed locked upon his. Suddenly, Steven detected movement behind Chance. He broke his gaze and connected with another…… it was a female dog, lying on the ground, with four puppies cradled against her. It turns out, that Chance was a father. The monster of the woods, was truly a mother. Steven slowly backed away from Chance, and made his way back home to tell his father.

The moment Steven turned to walk away, Chance leaped upon him and sunk his teeth in Steven’s shoulder.

“AHHHHHH!!!!!” Steven screeched as the huge hound shook him wildly. Suddenly, the dog disappeared, and so did the female with her pups. Steven found himself turned around in the darkness, which direction was home? Then he realized the paw prints in the dirt. These were WAY bigger than Chance’s. Chance must have fled the scene, and that meant that the cougar was the one who attacked him! Confused in the darkness, Steven didn’t know where to go, so he just ran. He ran, and ran, and ran. After a minute he started to slow from loss of blood. When he thought that his legs could take no more, he plopped to the ground in a mess of sweat and blood.

There was a growling coming from somewhere, but he couldn’t find it. He heard a slow drip, drip, drip, and leaned to the side to hear it better. There was a wet sensation occurring by his left ear, and it was weird, because he could feel it. He swiped the affected area, and felt a kind of thick saliva. Steven was appalled, and looked up. The second his head moved, the beast lunged from the tree, and seized Steven’s neck. His life was now over.