[Verse 1]
Yeah tell me that you know me by now
Tell me how I'm getting old and still ain't figured it out
Tell me I'm playing around when I should be finding a job
Tell me the way to live my life and how I'm living it wrong
Tell me the things I think - the things that I believe
Aren't the way that things work in this industry
Tell me I need to get out and I ain't doing enough
Tell me every reason why I should just go and give up
Cuz I can't, I won't - I never did this for you
Its for the kid I used to be who stayed silent in school
For the dreams I had closing my eyes in my room
For a teen and a dad who never told him the truth
For my mom and my brother all the people I love
For my boy Shawn and the others who refuse to grow up
So you can tell me what you want how it s**s for me
But this is for everyone out there still f*cks with me
[Chorus]
You never walked in my shoes
So don't cough on my views
You wanna help by all means
But don't sell me false dreams
See I know a lot too
And that's how I know I'm not you
I can't help but continue the chase
I don't care what you say
I'm going forth unafraid
[Verse 2]
Give me the long shot the one in a million
The horse who's never won but somebody has got a feeling
Give me the dice I'll roll when the tables been cold
Give me a chance to rewrite all the fables of old
Cuz there's a burning inside yeah this hopes alive
And that's something that you can't buy or compose overnight
And it grows when I write - so understand what I'm saying
See the plan was never be damned to company cravings
I got my own agenda and my own two sense
And I won't be told no that my soul's useless
As long as I got a voice you can bet I'm gonna use it
And life my way out of this disposable music
And prove it to myself and all of these doubts
That a kid with a laptop can change the world with his mouth
You heard what I'm about so either listen or not
But stop pissing on my life its the only one that I got
[Chorus]