my story is a simple one to tell popped out my momma s tummy 26th of january winter up in milwaukee twenty minutes later peein on the doctor s shirt pops makin jokes sayin look doc it works so the tell me anyway i can t remember anything before pre k it s all blurred together and each day my memory fades like worn leather but what i can recall is sweeter than warm weather with a cool breeze saturdays were heaven wake up watch cartoons from 7 straight to 11 then it s outside to play whatever sport was in season my cousins they were older so that made me the weak one but it didn t stop me all we did was play we made up our own games rolled up socks and faked like they were hand grenades makin forts out of couches mom would come home mad at how messed up the house was i stayed out of trouble most of the time but when i got out of line pops would smack my behind the wonder years are over now somehow i m fully grown still i fully know i didn t make it this far on my own  there is no way to count all of the mistakes i have made and i wouldn t be here today if it wasn t for your grace and you re still here with me you never gave up after all this time and i owe it all to you you re the one that got me through you wrote my story looking back on high school i see how foolish that i really was i thought i was the coolest that there ever was til i went off to college and learned nobody there even knew who i was it all taught me that i fall short like junior year when they cut me even though i left it all on the court i had to learn how to fail and to fall so i could learn how to get up shake the dust off walk and stand taller learn how to call on the one who s been there through it all i remember when i got the phone call freshman year in virginia my grandfather passed away eight years after my grandmother guess he couldn t wait to see her on the other side at the funeral i cried so hard i never knew i d hurt that bad inside but over time wounds heal and all that s remembered is the love that we shared while together forever this is my story and i wouldn t change a thing i was put here for a purpose this was written by a king was carefully designed hand crafted and made by the one who s never made a mistake i want to give all it takes from here on out to make up for lost time but what s done is done and i can t press rewind and all of my regrets are chasin me from behind but the future s unwritten i m racin towards the finish line so from here on out everyday counts i know your grace meets me no matter what the amount despite that i m hard hearted you gave me a clean slate and promised that you d finish what you ve started and even though a four minute long song can barely scratch the surface it s sure enough to show i m far from perfect so thank you for the past help me live in the present to prepare me for the future til my story ends