On Life & Living

You come into existence in North Carolina Through no fault of your own, onto California Where you make your first memory Form a concept of family Finally recognize the person that is me Now it's off to Virginia to get an education From a private school paid for by the Christians Learning reading and writing Multiplying dividing What creates tensions and what's unifying Now I shuffle back and forth to finish adolescence I'll discover girls and desire their presence My texts go unanswered Confidence turns to cancer Nobody yet welcomes my advances Warm becomes cold in the winters of Rhode Island Where I ended up, and tempers become violent I choose higher learning While my anger is burning Gotta get out of New England with no plans of returning It's so easy to blame the people who turned me away I just wanted to make out and listen to Sunday Thought it'd be romantic Evil from Antics And 24 hours up and down the Atlantic And all the while I've got my guitar Trying to elevate my music into some form of art I was put on this Earth To prove my worth I will earn every ounce of respect I deserve And all the while people try to play with my heart Making me a one man band playing both of those parts Leading me on and on And on and on Until every shred of dignity I once had is gone Because my call to greatness is never going to stop And when I reach that mystical, magnificent mountain top I will say to every girl that ever turned me down "You'd be filled with regret if you could see me now" And in a couple years I hope to look back and say I made the most I could out of each and every day Wasted no time Made the world mine And thrusted myself into the spotlight And it's nothing but a choice that was made for me I was given no input or chance to disagree Brings me here tonight Under the dim lights But I wouldn't be here if I didn't know it was right