Way in Alabama where the dirt roads cut through the woods And it rains you can smell the steam off the grass Even dew on the hood of my paw paw's 1985 Silverado I must have been six Life was so easy in the sticks 16 year old fought for the life she wanted for her son for love in the world of rock and roll is where it begun It was Alabama, Ted Alice Cooper, Randy Aerosmith my stepdaddy on the road And life, it was Cocaine and filled up the house party to be frank It wasn't too before I tried it myself and then started to drink became boring and doing my homework became rollin' joints Now I'm sixteen like my was when she had a little boy Can't imagine it now as I back 'cause I got three kids of my own And I respect what she went to pay for food and clothes And her 'Cause it what she did, it's what she didn't do for me That me to this moment And made me who I am on recording And is my story
This is my is my glory This is keeps me alive This is me is me trying This is keeps me alive
20 years old in the streets and I'm rollin' with now Hip-hop is over me, my language, my clothes, my lifestyle Antioch, Tennessee put me through the school of knocks And I that attitude with me to this day, more or not And I'm young and Always running from police and Graffiti, loiterin', I sorta got my peace the chaos Was no "mother-may-I's," surrounded by And maybe some day I's I was against the grain, even when I was wheat Got back into and roll, and then got into poetry Started expressin' everything I could the medium of pen and pad Playin' off a tape and then over-dubbin' what I had It was everything, I had nothin' And man was alright, 'cause now I had somethin' Little did I know that would be the hardest thing to do God put before me So I took a look at what I've been And I it my glory, and this is...
This is my is my glory This is what keeps me This is me is me trying This is what keeps me
It's a 2 AM bus 'craw; me at the parkin' lot of Wal-Mart Nashville, Tennessee for a nationwide tour My bags are all packed and I'm loadin' my to go meet the crew And I'm excited to get on the road, one foot out the door Turn around and my daughter, she's cryin' 'Cause is leavin' Knows that be gone for months and it hurts and I hate to see it Kneel down and tell her, "Look, baby, I promise I'll you everyday And daddy sing you prayers from everywhere that we go play" But that's not enough, and it's my heart in two Just knowin' I can't stay, not even to see it And that I can't tuck her in, to say with a grin Now she's left behind, this is me all over again, man I picked her up in my arms and held her And said, "Hey you know what? Daddy used to be like you When I walk up to the bus And I'd do anything in the world for you, so chase dreams One day use everything you've been through to be anything, baby girl is my story
This is my is my glory This is keeps me alive This is me This is me This is keeps me alive