Why, you wanna tell me how to live my life?Who, are you to tell me if it's black or white?

Momma, can you help me try to understandIs innocence the difference 'tween a boy and a manMy daddy lived a lie, that's just the price that he paidSacrificed his life, just slaving away

Oh, if there's one thing I hang ontoThat gets me thru the nightI ain't gonna do what I don't want toI'll gonna live my lifeShining like a diamond, rolling with the diceStanding on the ledge, I'll show the wind how to flyWhen the world gets in my faceI sayHave a nice dayHave a nice day

Take a look around you, nothing's what it seemsWe're living in a broken home of hopes and dreams

Let me be the first to shake your helping handAnybody brave enough to take a standI've knocked on every door, on every dead end streetLooking for forgiveness and what's left to believe?

This one goes out to the man who mines for miraclesThis one goes out to the ones in needThis one goes out to the sinner and the cynicalThis ain't about no apologyThis road was paved by the hopeless and the hungryThis road was paved by the winds of changeWalkin' beside the guilty and the innocentHow will you raise your hand when they call your name?Yeah, yeah, yeah

We weren't born to followCome on and get up off your kneesWhen life is a bitter pill to swallowYou gotta hold on to what you believeBelieve that the sun will shine tomorrowAnd that your saints and sinners bleedWe weren't born to followYou gotta stand up for what you believeLet me hear you say yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah

This one's about anyone who does it differentlyThis one's about the one who curses and spitsThis ain't about our livin' in a fantasyThis ain't about givin' up or givin' inYeah, yeah, yeah