As I decide to fulfill my life's strategy  
 The devil insists on trying to battle me  
 I meet him in an empty field on the high plains 
  He throws temptations my way to inflict internal pain  
 Life and death matters, this ain't no game I 
 t's mind over matter, the power of my brain  
 He thinks I'll give in if my muscles start to strain  
 He believes I'll submit to the evil of society's frame  
 And benefit from notoriety's gain  
 He says I don't have to properly train  
 and that he'll give me all the fame  
 and everyone will know my name  
 But I think he's insane  
 'Cause I know the truth- to gain is to give  
 To have pain is to live  
 So I call on my heavenly Father's name  
 And slowly watch the thunder and rain subside  
 I'm finally able to push the temptations aside  
 I went blow for blow, I went face to face  
 Now the devil knows, I'm able to escape  
 Not by a back door or an alternate route  
 I saw the middle high ground and I ran right through 

  
 This is G-A-Y