Why you wanna tell me how to live my life?
Who are you to tell me if it's black or white?
Momma, can you help me try to understand
Is innocence the difference
'tween a boy and a man?
My daddy lived a lie,
that's just the price that he paid
Sacrificed his life just slaving away
Oh, if there's
one thing
I hang onto that gets me
thru the night
I ain't gonna
do
what I don't want to; I'm gonna
live my life
Shining like a diamond,
rolling with the dice
Standing on the ledge,
I'll show the wind how to fly
When the world gets in my face,
I say
Have a nice
day
Have a nice
day
Take a look around you; nothing's what it seems
We're living in the broken home
of hopes and dreams
Let me be the first to shake a helping hand
Anybody brave enough to take a stand
I've knocked on every door
on every dead-end street
Looking for forgiveness and what's left to believe
Oh, if there's
one thing
I hang onto that gets me
thru the night
I ain't gonna
do
what I don't want to; I'm gonna
live my life
Shining like a diamond,
rolling with the dice
Standing on the ledge,
I'll show the wind how to fly
When the world gets in my face,
I say
Have a nice
day
Have a nice
day
Oh, if there's
one thing
I hang onto that gets me
thru the night
I ain't gonna
do
what I don't want to; I'm gonna
live my life
Shining like a diamond,
rolling with the dice
Standing on the ledge,
I'll show the wind how to fly
When the world gets in my face,
I say
Have a nice
day
Have a nice
day
When the
world keeps
trying
to drag
me down
Gotta
raise my
hands,
gonna stand
my
ground
I say,
hey
Have a nice
day
Have
a nice day
