Mom, I'm begging you 
Don't be mad at me 
If I just want to 
Sleep when sunlight's seen. 
I opened a door, 
And it stole my soul. 
What controls my core - 
Now it's rock-n-roll. 

Was a shock at age 15. 
Was a sight I'd never seen. 
Was a pit and bloody lip. 
Time and time again was hit. 
It was Hatfield and Mustaine. 
It was Deftones and Mudvayne. 
I went down a deadly track, 
And there is no turning back. 

I beg you, forgive me ma. 
There is no turning back. 
Know my life once and for all - 
Now it's rock-n-roll. 

It was Vedder and Cobain. 
It was Staley in his Chains. 
It was from the first refrain 
That I heard in Crazy Train. 
It's the Beatles and Woodstock, 
 [bad word] Pistols and Punk-Rock. 
It was everything I saw. 
It became my fatal flaw. 
Forgive me, ma. 

Mom, I'm begging you 
Don't be mad at me 
If I just want to 
Sleep when sunlight's seen. 
I opened a door, 
And it stole my soul. 
What controls my core - 
Now it's rock-n-roll. 

I beg you, forgive me ma... 
Now it's rock-n-roll. 
Know my life once and for all... 
Now it's rock-n-roll. 

Now it's rock-n-roll... 
I beg you, forgive me ma... 
There is no turning back... 
Know my life once and for all... 
Now it's rock-n-roll... 
And I beg you, forgive me ma... 

Just ma... 
Mom, I'm begging you 
Don't be mad at me 
If I just want to 
Sleep when sunlight's seen. 
I opened a door, 
And it stole my soul. 
What controls my core - 

Now it's rock-n-roll. beg you, forgive me ma... 
There is no turning back... 
Know my life once and for all... 
Now it's rock-n-roll.