No one's gonna tell me how to live my life,
Doing fine,
No one's gonna tell me how to do it right,
I'll make up my mind,
And no one's gonna tell me how I can survive,
Put it up, put it up,
So I can keep fighting till the day I die.

Because I'm riding going 'round in your neighborhood,
You'd never thought you'd see me in your neck of the wood,
Barely sleeping party more than we should,
The good die young so we're all misunderstood,
I never told the bad girls to go away,
And my mother gets mad cause the good ones never stay,
I told her that I'm trying to find my own way,
And it takes a couple girls just to keep me in shape.

I never seem to let it happen,
Could you imagine,
Someone tried to fix how I'm acting,
So I keep telling them.

No one's gonna tell me how to live my life,
Doing fine,
No one's gonna tell me how to do it right,
I'll make up my mind,
And no one's gonna tell me how I can survive,
Put it up, put it up,
So I can keep fighting till the day I die.

Well it's funny,
Some people try to change all of your words,
That come out of your mouth but they're never being heard,
You can try but they always tune you out,
So nowadays I don't really speak I just shout,
I keep moving so they never slow me down,
They talking in my ear but they don't make a sound,
If they silent you can hear the world turn,
A lesson in this life that everybody should've learned.

They never stop themselves from asking,
Could you imagine,
I live my life the way it happened,
So I keep telling them.

No one's gonna tell me how to live my life,
Doing fine,
No one's gonna tell me how to do it right,
I'll make up my mind,
And no one's gonna tell me how I can survive,
Put it up, put it up,
So I can keep fighting till the day I die.

They think they know how everything should be,
But I have figured out that it's not right for me.

No one's gonna tell me how to live my life,
Doing fine,
No one's gonna tell me how to do it right,
I'll make up my mind,
And no one's gonna tell me how I can survive,
Put it up, put it up,
So I can keep fighting till the day I die.