Ayo 'cuz when y'all tellin' folk, about my life   I don't want y'all to add nothing   I don't want y'all to take nothing away   I want y'all to play that thang   Just like this here, ya heard me, come on      Since the tender age, I been running wild   I seen all those things, you don't show to a child   It wasn't the love I was missing   My folks cared for me, I had a stubborn ass attitude   And y'all couldn't talk to me      I tried often the straight and narrow   But every time I would stumble and fall   Fell so hard one time   I fucked around and stayed down   I don't wanna try no more      I was gettin' a little older   Those mistakes were a part of my life   And my only regret   Is that I'll only get one chance   To get it right      And I wanna tell the world, the truth about me   And I wanna tell the world, the truth about me   Listen to the song      I've caused more unnecessary stress   To my mama than the world allow   Old sister of mine   I had once upon a time   We ain't spoke in a while      Life's been hard on me, but I found a way   To keep standing it and holding on, holding on   Pressin' on, good God Almighty   Standing in jail someday, I'll break the monotony   'Cause Petey wasn't doing that well      And I can behold a way   That the world christened me   If anybody give a damn to know   What really went on in my life   I wrote a song      And I wanna tell the world, the truth about me   And I wanna tell the world, the truth about me      {It is now gallow time, all inmates are asked   To get on your assigned bunks   And remain there until count time is made, count time   Olden, Williams, Monroe   Durant, Pablo, Pablo}      Man I was just one of the ones   That always wounded up in the midst of something   Stayed in trouble if I won't fuckin' up   I love, to bring the pain   Growing up in Greenville      North Carolina outside of Rocky Mount   I'm a be on the winning side   When this whole life decide to give me just a little money   You can sell it bootleg just as long as you can get it   Whatever, just understand me      And I wanna tell the world the truth about me   And I wanna tell the world the truth about me      And I hadn't changed to stand before you   And tell you about the things in my life   Yeah, yeah, yeah