Standing in the Light

TESLA:

Can this be?

Is it really me

standing in the light?

If my family knew

all that I’ve been through

to be standing here tonight.

All my life I’ve played this game,

and all my life it always ends the same:

Stuck on the sidelines, unable to join the fight;

now I’m standing in the light.

Secretly

I love to be

walking that tight-rope.

And if I stall

or slip and fall

I’ll hang onto hope.

I could start a thousand things,

but in the end, need only that one to bring

all the meaning to my life and suffering

to get me standing in the light.

Too long I’ve gone without;

too long I’ve lived in doubt.

Well that’s behind me

since you just signed me.

Now luck will find me.

There’s nothing that can stop me when I’m

standing in the light.

(musical interlude)

CHORUS

Standing in the light.

Standing in the light.

Standing in the light.

I’m fin’lly who I’m meant to be:

The man who’ll take us to the next century.

No more waiting,

no more wondering if we might

someday stand up in the light.

I know what my plan is now:

Power the world somehow.

I’ll walk through that door;

a man they can’t ignore

and leave ‘em wanting more.

There’s nothing that can stop me,

even if someday you drop me,

everything will be all right

‘cause we’ll be standing in the light!