Once I Saw The Light

Have you ever felt now, like you had to live your life?
All that you've been through, is it more than wrongs and rights?
Yeah, there has to be a reason, and you might find out tonight
Yeah I found out myself, bruh, once I saw the light
Have you ever felt now, like you had to live your life?
All that you've been through, is it more than wrongs and rights?
Yeah, there has to be a reason, and you might find out tonight
Yeah I found out myself, bruh, once I saw the light

Yeah I saw the light once, and I still was just a boy
At first I felt fear, but then it turned to radiant joy
Yeah, it permeated, and then it alleviated
Bruh, I saw my death, no need to escape it
So I embrace it, that kid had to face it
Your past becomes your future now, so you can't erase it
I feel for that child, yes, he sacrificed a lot
But now I am he, and he's about to drop
It's been birthing pains from conception to arrival
It takes what it takes when it comes to survival
I've been living kinda fast, seeing blurs from my past
How I do it all and see it all in a flash?
No time to move slow, it's light speed around here
In the light, I saw my death, so imagine how I feel?
Maybe as if I have nothing now to live for
Or better yet, now I have something to die for

Have you ever felt now, like you had to live your life?
All that you've been through, is it more than wrongs and rights?
Yeah, there has to be a reason, and you might find out tonight
Yeah I found out myself, bruh, once I saw the light
Have you ever felt now, like you had to live your life?
All that you've been through, is it more than wrongs and rights?
Yeah, there has to be a reason, and you might find out tonight
Yeah I found out myself, bruh, once I saw the light

Yes, the light has revealed everything I ever did
Saw the gold on my casket, and the hay in my crib
Yeah, I think that I'm living while the world has been expecting
A child of America, yet I'm still the son of Reddick
Yeah, there's three hundred people in that small country town
They call me Leonidas, yeah, I'm built for twelve rounds
Bruh, I've bunked in the slums, and I crawled through the mud
Learned winning is an illusion, so I do it just because
In the light, there's reflections but in the dark I reflected
Life is just a test you better learn from the lessons
I'm enrolled, who am I to drop out? I'm ready for the stage, graduation's right now
Ooh, yeah, and remember now I know what's next
I need to live it out, yeah, until that last breath
But when's my last breath? Is this my last breath?
If you don't know yours, then take a wild guess brother

Have you ever felt now, like you had to live your life?
All that you've been through, is it more than wrongs and rights?
Yeah, there has to be a reason, and you might find out tonight
Yeah I found out myself, bruh, once I saw the light
Have you ever felt now, like you had to live your life?
All that you've been through, is it more than wrongs and rights?
Yeah, there has to be a reason, and you might find out tonight
Yeah I found out myself, bruh, once I saw the light