Intro/Pre-chorus: It's L.V. ohh You can't tell me what I wanna be Cause I am the definition Of a kid that likes to do his own thing, yea Hook: You can't tell me what I wanna be Cause I am the definition Of a kid that likes to do his own thing, yea You could tell me not to chase a dream But I can't promise that I'll listen, hah Cause I'm way too zoned to notice all your disbelief Verse 1: I hear the choir of the populace singin Teachers and politicians tellin me how to make a livin Do I listen or do I step through their inhibitions? Follow my inner ambition, make a bigger difference As I progressed through school I just felt oppressed They'd throw tests at fools thinkin they won't stress But now I'm so blessed, cause I chose to be positive And went deeper in myself til I found out what my calling is Now that I know that I can show that Any obstacle that comes along you can blow back You can grow past but you gotta be willing to get road rash That's what it's like with your wheels on the pro-track Never visited by d**h no Joe Black Left my depression for this music, flow is Prozac Saw the way the greats were thinkin so I cloned that And I pulled the right strings until my bow snapped Hook: You can't tell me what I wanna be Cause I am the definition Of a kid that likes to do his own thing You could tell me not to chase a dream But I can't promise that I'll listen Cause I'm way too zoned to notice all your disbelief Verse 2: I need some privacy to work in my laboratory Please leave Dee Dee this is my oratory More than just a horror story, my words gore the stories Forced by poor folk storing lore to four stories Yea, I wear my heart on my songs So when it bleeds other hearts can sing along Relate and be relieved, slay impeding beliefs A beast that frees the me from within the we Is what I wanna be Cause conformity is a morbid sore forming A translucent tortoise lording over the cores imploring For an existence less thorny than Norse Viking horns And swords on the north shore, the forces of the world's words Slam us like a door struck, by the hammer of Thor We've been misled through muck as they drug us with such Fearful ideas of careers we shouldn't touch And they feed em to us until their lies become a crutch but Hook: You can't tell me what I wanna be Cause I am the definition Of a kid that likes to do his own thing You could tell me not to chase a dream But I can't promise that I'll listen Cause I'm way too zoned to notice all your disbelief Bridge: Yea Look, I have Two eyes, one mind, both open redefine The meaning of a waking dream, make phrases work for me Pay raises duplicate accordingly to faithful deeds Blood and tears as I stack bricks to build this thing Facing the fears it brings, but even masons bleed So check my masonry and tell me if you'd rather sleep Personally, awake and great is what I wanna be Hook: You can't tell me what I wanna be Cause I am the definition Of a kid that likes to do his own thing You could tell me not to chase a dream But I can't promise that I'll listen Cause I'm way too zoned to notice all your disbelief Outro: Yea, we on the road The Road Less Traveled