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.