Everything that I am and never will see
Is nothing that I was, nor ever will be
I am that I am and think, therefore I am
I walk, therefore I stand, and step because I can
There is nothing in this world that I can not do
Nor a diamond in the sky that I can not choose
You tell me no, I say yes, you tell me dont, I say do
You tell me wont, I say try, you tell me lies, I stay true
They tell us stop, I say go, they tell us drop, I say hold
They tell us die, I say grow, they tell us think, I say know
You can teach me every lesson, and you can preach me all psalms
You can reach me with a message, and you can keep me in palms
But any time you try to tell me that I cant or I wont
I'll prove everyone of you wrong, by everything that Ive wrote
And everything that Ive done and everything that Ive seen
Everytime that Ive come, and everytime that Ive dreamed
You wont hold me down or keep me back from my path
Thats why they say its MY life, and its MY soul, it's MY task...
my words, my rhythm, my lyrics, my voice
my lesson, my legend, my sin, my choice
my life, my story, my future, my dream
my family, my father, my mother, my team
my hate, my love, my fate, my fear
my faith, my gain, my pain, my tears
my brother, my keeper, my freind, my foe
my seed, my reeper, my end, my soul
They say that you can be anything that you want
Until the day we grow up, then they just tell you youre not
They fill us up with these thoughts that they later will crush
They never think of the cost of what they tell you means much
That every time that they say that you can, but soon dont
And everytime that we plan for the life they say wont
The build us up to go down, they tell us right but then left
They tell us smile, dont frown, but dont get hopes up, regret
And its no wonder these kids dont wanna play be the rules
Theyre so confused by it all, so they go shoot up their schools
It's like theyre sick of the bullshit, that we adults put em through
Though we were once at that age, we cant conceive what they prove
They prove to us that we're wrong, they prove to us that theyre lost
They prove that we are the problem, they prove that we can not solve
And they have proved to us all what they can and cant do
They proved that we have evolved, by all the lies theyve consumed
I once believed in their words, of how they said I wont last
Of how they said I cant make it, that's where theyre wrong, it's MY past...
my words, my rhythm, my lyrics, my voice
my lesson, my legend, my sin, my choice
my life, my story, my future, my dream
my family, my father, my mother, my team
my hate, my love, my fate, my fear
my faith, my gain, my pain, my tears
my brother, my keeper, my freind, my foe
my seed, my reeper, my end, my soul
And in conclusion to this, I hope you all may now see
That all the things that they tell you that you cant, you can be
They want to hold you back from the line where they failed
That doesnt mean that youre doomed to fall, in time, where they fell
It only means that there's tests along this road that we take
And every step that we make may hit a stone, and we break
But thats why we get up again, and dust off all the pain
Sometimes we must take a hand to help us up from the shame
But that doesnt mean quit, and it doesnt mean cry
It only means that we've tripped, it doesnt mean we cant climb
It doesnt mean that theyre right, it doesnt mean you were wrong
It doesnt mean that this life isnt worth living at all
It just means that youre strong, to carry on and have hope
You gotta keep your chin up, pull an Ali rope a dope
Look all your foes in the eye as they doubt you and smile
And scream at them "This is MINE! to have it's worth all the while"
my words, my rhythm, my lyrics, my voice
my lesson, my legend, my sin, my choice
my life, my story, my future, my dream
my family, my father, my mother, my team
my hate, my love, my fate, my fear
my faith, my gain, my pain, my tears
my brother, my keeper, my freind, my foe
my seed, my reeper, my end, my soul