jerry jeff walker in a boarding house i d lay upstairs and dream of how i d live someday downstairs there sat a man who had a guitar he never learned to play for my thirteenth birthday grandma bought the guitar told me i should learn how to play and the gift she gave me changed me cause the music is the main thing that got me to this point here today chorus and i was lucky cause i used her gift to get in touch with how to live and looking back i now realize music changed my life just out of school i had no clue of what it was i d like to do i only know the open road was the way i chose to pass on through i took that guitar with me down the lonesome highway and i began my search for a song and somewhere in the distance the music and the mystery of how i would live come along chorus that music saved my life music became my life as time went by i found that i could climb up on the stage and sing but when i sang the songs i wrote it became a very special thing but songs to me were personal and the business side just killed me and i withdrew inside my shell with the contracts and the lawsuits i started heavy drinking til i finally lost touch with myself bridge i guess playing music for money brought problems that i didn t face very well being self taught gave me nothing to lean on i had to look in myself i took a year off and did some fasting just to clean the cobwebs out and i went back to grandma s guitar just to hear a simple sound when i look around me i saw my loving family and a home we had built on a hill i discovered the music had led me to the one place where my heart and soul are re filled chorus music saved my life yeah music really saved my life yes music really saved my life