Intro/Pre-chorus:
It's L.V. ohh
You can't tell me what I wanna be
Cause I am the definition
Of a kid that likes to do his own thing, yea
Hook:
You can't tell me what I wanna be
Cause I am the definition
Of a kid that likes to do his own thing, yea
You could tell me not to chase a dream
But I can't promise that I'll listen, hah
Cause I'm way too zoned to notice all your disbelief
Verse 1:
I hear the choir of the populace singin
Teachers and politicians tellin me how to make a livin
Do I listen or do I step through their inhibitions?
Follow my inner ambition, make a bigger difference
As I progressed through school I just felt oppressed
They'd throw tests at fools thinkin they won't stress
But now I'm so blessed, cause I chose to be positive
And went deeper in myself til I found out what my calling is
Now that I know that I can show that
Any obstacle that comes along you can blow back
You can grow past but you gotta be willing to get road rash
That's what it's like with your wheels on the pro-track
Never visited by d**h no Joe Black
Left my depression for this music, flow is Prozac
Saw the way the greats were thinkin so I cloned that
And I pulled the right strings until my bow snapped
Hook:
You can't tell me what I wanna be
Cause I am the definition
Of a kid that likes to do his own thing
You could tell me not to chase a dream
But I can't promise that I'll listen
Cause I'm way too zoned to notice all your disbelief
Verse 2:
I need some privacy to work in my laboratory
Please leave Dee Dee this is my oratory
More than just a horror story, my words gore the stories
Forced by poor folk storing lore to four stories
Yea, I wear my heart on my songs
So when it bleeds other hearts can sing along
Relate and be relieved, slay impeding beliefs
A beast that frees the me from within the we
Is what I wanna be
Cause conformity is a morbid sore forming
A translucent tortoise lording over the cores imploring
For an existence less thorny than Norse Viking horns
And swords on the north shore, the forces of the world's words
Slam us like a door struck, by the hammer of Thor
We've been misled through muck as they drug us with such
Fearful ideas of careers we shouldn't touch
And they feed em to us until their lies become a crutch but
Hook:
You can't tell me what I wanna be
Cause I am the definition
Of a kid that likes to do his own thing
You could tell me not to chase a dream
But I can't promise that I'll listen
Cause I'm way too zoned to notice all your disbelief
Bridge:
Yea
Look, I have
Two eyes, one mind, both open redefine
The meaning of a waking dream, make phrases work for me
Pay raises duplicate accordingly to faithful deeds
Blood and tears as I stack bricks to build this thing
Facing the fears it brings, but even masons bleed
So check my masonry and tell me if you'd rather sleep
Personally, awake and great is what I wanna be
Hook:
You can't tell me what I wanna be
Cause I am the definition
Of a kid that likes to do his own thing
You could tell me not to chase a dream
But I can't promise that I'll listen
Cause I'm way too zoned to notice all your disbelief
Outro:
Yea, we on the road
The Road Less Traveled