This Is Your Life - En Vogue

I lived part of my life

Being scared of my dreams

Everytime someone asks

What Im shooting for in life

I would hide my true feelings

And when I spoke up to my friends

They made fun of my dreams

So when times got too rough

I would think back on one thing

My mama would say to me Chorus: this is your life, live it your own way

Forces of evil struck back and forth

Throughout my younger days,

Because I would listen

And care what other people would say

Like a four letter word

I ignored the whole world

And built my own tiny world with respect

But it took time to relate

What my momma would say time after time again, she said: