Just step outside yourself today
   to take a closer look;
Are you the man you should've been,
  you're life an open book?

Have you became what others say,
   they'd one day like to be;
Or think to self, this can't be right,
   I'm so ashamed of me?

It's not about, the years gone by,
   the past has all been paid;
It's more of what you're doing now
   and how you live today!

Live life to love each one around,
   make time for those who care;
Just pass on things you've came to know,
   remember life's not fair!

Take steps to help someone who's down,
   to show a bit of love;
Just find a way to share the truth,
   forgiveness from above!

Now focus on the here and now,
   make memories for to last;
Then look at self from outside in,
   to change the things of past!

It doesn't take a genie's spell
  to change your life today;
It only takes determined mind,
   to live a different way!

We all have done those certain things,
   we wished we'd never done;
Or overlooked important things
  to live our life all wrong.

Don't ever think you can't change now,
   it's never quite to late;
To make up time you've thrown away,
   or change past choices made!

Just start today, don't put it off,
   to choose to do what's right;
To stand your ground for better life,
   to finally win this fight!

Now hug and hold those one's you've hurt,
   don't fear to shed a tear;
Just show them by your actions now,
   This year's a brand new year!

In days and times of younger years,
   I felt I'd never fall;
I couldn't lose no matter what
  if I'd just give my all.

I lived my life so focused on
  both riches and my fame;
I tried so hard to do my best,
   just hiding all the pain.

I dreamed not huge, but massive dreams,
   in life I had a plan;
To take this world by storm myself,
   to be a wealthy man!

It's my own fault, the way I lived,
   it comes as no suprise;
I worked so hard both night and day,
   my loved ones paid the price!

I never spent, not near enough,
   each moment oh so dear;
Those precious times, the little ones,
   that draw a family near.

Now've made a pact to focus on
  these finer things in life;
To be the dad I should've been,
   to turn my wrongs to rights.

To hug and hold, to love each day,
   to make up for lost time;
To NEVER let them go again,
   to walk a different line!!

What would life be without you here,
   I never want to know;
To spend one day all by myself,
   much lower than just low!

To never feel your touch again
   so much more than just cruel;
To hear you say your last goodbye,
   to think I'd been a fool!

So now I take the time each day,
   to thank my Lord above;
For giving me my every dream,
   all packaged in your love!

You see you fill my heart so full,
   you set my mind at ease;
This love we share together now,
   the purest of all peace!

So never think I don't love you,
   Your more than just my girl;
I finally found my one true love,
   my ONE in this whole world!!