Busta Rhymes, Joell Ortiz, The Roots, Nate Ruess - My Shot (Rise Up Remix) lyrics

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Ayo, mugshot, gun shot, dope shot, jump shot
Take your pick but you only get one shot
Advice from a schoolteacher to a young tot
Applyin' a sticker to his
Spider man lunchbox
When even role models tell us
We're born to be felons
We're never gettin' into Harvard
Or Carnegie Mellon
And we gon' end up either
Robbin' somebody or killin'
It's not fair that's all they can tell us
That's why I hustle hella hard
Never celebrate a holiday
That'll be the day I coulda
Finally hit the lottery
I refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away
Or chalk it up as just


Another one that got away
So I'm unapologetic, I'm on my calisthenics
If I have given it all I
Got I cannot regret it
My point of destination's different from
Where I was headed
'Cause I'ma shoot for the stars to get it
One shot

I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
Yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
No, I'm not throwin' away my shot
Yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot

When opportunity knock
You don't send anyone to get it
Answer the door, welcome it, let it in
Or regret it
They said if you can't beat 'em
You join 'em i say, "Forget it"
'Cause once you join 'em you're buildin'
A ceilin' the way you're headed
Be American
Express how you feel and take the credit
Don't settle for 87, go premium unleaded and
Take off, shake all the hate off, it's over
It's they loss
The payoff's their weight off your shoulders
Must admit, I'm feelin', um, kinda, um
Lighter as a writer with this fire
And desire to go higher
Than a stealth fighter pilot with
My eye on every prize
I surprise you guys, I'm a prize fighter
(Yeah) my nine to five describe your scribe
Survive minor
Setbacks and take steps back from pied pipers
Be leaders, believers in yourself and mean it
I mean you only get one shot
Take it or leave it

I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
Yo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
No, I'm not throwin' away my shot
Ayo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot

Rise up
If you livin' on your knees, you rise up
Tell your brother that he's gotta rise up
Tell your sister that she's gotta rise up
When are folks like me and you gonna rise up?
Every city, every hood, we need to rise up
All my soldiers
What's good? We need to wise up
We ain't got no other choice
We need to wise up rise up!

Throughout my travels and journeys through
Life I've been searchin'
And been learnin' to be the type of person
To display how determined I
Get when I'm certain
Inside I feel that fire that's burnin'
Like a knife that is turnin'
I fight while I'm hurtin'
Sometimes they're right 'cause life
Is a burden
Like the pain from a bite that'll worsen
Tryna stifle the light that'll shine
On me first and
Before I ride in a hearse and
My breathing stops
And never take my one shot I got
'fore I lie in the earth
And now I come again holdin'
Down Hamilton Hercules Mulligan
Readin' in Vanity Fair or the Huffington
Done with the sufferin', we
In the guts again, family rushin' in
Wonder where Busta been
Feelin' the hunger and feedin'
The lust to win (Lust to win)
See I've been patiently waitin'
For this moment to rise up again
That's the way I was molded
And as the last one standin' as
The rest of them foldin'
Give me my one chance to grab
The torch and properly hold it

I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
Ayo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
No, I'm not throwin' away my shot
Ayo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
Ayo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
I said I'm not throwin' away my shot
No, I'm not throwin' away my shot
Ayo, I'm just like my country
I'm young, scrappy, and hungry
And I'm not throwin' away my shot
It's time to take a shot

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