Why you want to tell me how to live my life

Who are you to tell me if it's black or white

Mama can you hear me try to understand

Is innocence the difference between a boy and a man

My daddy lived the lie it's just the price that he paid

Sacrificed his life just slavin' away

Oh if there's one thing I hang onto

It gets me through 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 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 look nothing's what it seems

We're living in a broken home of hopes and dreams

Let me be the first to shake a helping hand

Everybody pray enough to take a stand

I knocked on every door on every dead end street

Looking for forgiveness

What's left to believe

Oh if there's one thing I hang onto

It gets me through 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 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

It gets me through 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 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

I've gotta raise my hands gonna stand my ground

Well I say have a nice day

Have a nice day