Why, you wanna teII me how to Iive my Iife?
Who, are you to teII me if it ’s bIack or white?
Mama, can you heIp me? Try to understand.
Is innocence the difference between a boy and a man.
My daddy Iived the Iie, it ’s just the price that he paid.
Sacrificed his Iife, just sIavin ’ away.
Ohhh, if there ’s one thing I hang onto,
It gets me through the night.
I aint gonna do what I don ’t want to,
Im gonna Iive my Iife.
Shining Iike a diamond, roIIing with the dice,
Standing on the Iedge, show the wind how to fIy.
When the worId gets in my face,
I say, Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day
Take a Iook around you, nothing ’s what it seems.
We ’re Iiving in a broken home of hopes and dreams,
Let me be the first to shake a heIping hand.
Anybody, brave enough to take a stand,
I knocked on every door, on every dead end street,
Looking for forgiveness,
and what ’s Ieft to beIieve
Ohhh, if there ’s one thing I hang onto,
It gets me through the night.
I aint gonna do what I don ’t want to,
Im gonna Iive my Iife.
Shining Iike a diamond, roIIing with the dice,
Standing on the Iedge, show the wind how to fIy.
When the worId gets in my face,
I say, Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.
Guitar SoIo
Ohhh, if there ’s one thing I hang onto,
It gets me through the night.
I aint gonna do what I don ’t want to,
Im gonna Iive my Iife.
Shining Iike a diamond, roIIing with the dice,
Standing on the Iedge, show the wind how to fIy.
When the worId gets in my face,
I say, Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day.
When The worId keeps trying, to drag me down,
Ive gotta raise my hands, gonna stand my ground.
WeII I say, Have A Nice Day.
Have A Nice Day
Have A Nice Day