Way back in Alabama where the roads cut through the woods And when it rains you can smell the steam off the dew on the hood of my paw paw's 1985 Chevrolet Silverado I must have been six Life was so easy in the sticks 16 old mother 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 kept my stepdaddy on the And life, it was Cocaine and alcohol filled up the house party to be It wasn't too long I tried it myself and then started to drink School became boring and doing my homework became rollin' Now I'm sixteen my mama was when she had a little boy imagine it now as I look back 'cause I got three kids of my own And I what she went through to pay for food and clothes And her 'Cause it ain't what she did, it's she didn't do for me That brought me to moment And made me who I am on this And is my story
This is my is my glory This is what me alive This is me This is me This is what keeps me
20 years old in the and I'm rollin' with gangsters now Hip-hop is takin' me, my language, my clothes, my lifestyle Antioch, Tennessee put me the school of hard knocks And I carry that with me to this day, more or not And I'm and hot-headed Always running police and skateboardin' Graffiti, loiterin', I sorta got my peace the chaos Was no "mother-may-I's," by have-nots And some day I's well I was against the grain, even when I was wheat Got back into and roll, and then got into poetry Started expressin' I could through the medium of pen and pad Playin' instrumentals off a and then over-dubbin' what I had It was everything, I had nothin' And man that was alright, 'cause now I had Little did I know that would be the hardest to do God ever put before me So I took a at what I've been through And I made it my glory, and is...
This is my is my glory This is what keeps me This is me This is me This is what keeps me
It's a 2 AM bus 'craw; me at the parkin' lot of Wal-Mart Leavin' Nashville, Tennessee for a nationwide My bags are all packed and I'm my truck 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 daddy is Knows that I'll be gone for months and it 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 breakin' my in two Just I can't stay, not even to see it through And that I can't her in, to say goodbye with a grin Now she's bein' left behind, this is me all again, man I picked her up in my arms and held her And said, "Hey you what? Daddy used to be just like you When I walk up to the bus And I'd do anything in the world for you, so your dreams One day use everything you've been through to be anything, baby girl This is my
This is my is my glory This is keeps me alive This is me This is me This is what keeps me