Intro Lyrics

A whole lot of the speeches that happen at a graduation, a high school graduation ceremony

Are just not real, y'all

You know, I mean, y'all, you don't get a trophy for breathing

Everybody, you understand this, right

And so, so it's like, we're breathing, we are, we're not breathing

Okay, good

You graduated

Woo

Great

Let's have a party

You know, and then tomorrow, you just don't have anywhere to go

Yesterday, you had a plan

Y'all are with me on this, right

All the adults are sitting there going, that's right, you go, preacher

All the ones that graduated yesterday are going, what's he talking about

Today's wonderful

All right, just stay with me on this

But there was one speech

There was one speech given by a kid that I think I've known since he was in kindergarten

And he goes to church here

And he's a class president, and so he gave the speech

And then the whole speech was awesome

I went up to him afterwards

The whole speech was awesome

I got to tell you, I will always remember the last sentence

Now, I'm going to give you the last sentence, because I want to use it as a springboard

To teach you what I want you to learn today, okay

You're not going to like the last sentence, because he spoke truth

Amen

Look at your neighbor and say, this is not politically correct

Tell your neighbor that

All right

It's not

It's not, but it's true

And if you don't like it, it comes from an 18-year-old, not me

But it's true

His last line, you ready for this

His last line was, be phenomenal or be forgotten

Amen

That's a great line

That is a great line

If you don't like that line, you ought to just be remembered just because

No, nobody gets trophies for breathing

Nobody gets trophies for breathing

Nobody gets trophies for breathing

Amen