The speaker reflects on having lived a full life where they traveled many roads and paths, facing challenges and doubts but overcoming them through doing things their own way without exception or exemption. They took risks and faced consequences but maintained their independence and authentic self by expressing how they truly felt rather than conforming to what others expected.

2. And now, the end is here
And so I face the final curtain

3. My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case Of which I'm certain

4. I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more
I did it my way

5. Regrets, I've had a few
But then again too few to mention

6. I did what I had to do
And saw it through
Without exemption

7. I planned each charted course
Each careful step upon the by way

8. And more, much more ....
I did it my way

9. Yes there were times
I'm sure you knew
When I bit off
more than I could chew

10. But through it all
When there was doubt

11. I ate it up and spit it out
I faced it all and I stood tall
I did it my way

12. For what is a man?
What has he got?
If not himself
Than he has not

13. To say the things
He truly feels
And not the words
Of one who kneels

14. The record shows
I took the blows
Silvia Cossío
And did it