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.