Illuminate (Radio Edit) Lyrics

Edison like the Eddie's in a river run

A young man's game still played by old men

The game of believing in an imagined possibility

And working relentlessly to make it so

Try and fail and try and fail

And repeat perhaps a thousand times more

With a deep hope and belief that one day

Perhaps one day the answer will come

And the light will shine and illuminate the world

One day all the effort will combine to success

And when that day comes many will say how easy

How lucky, how anyone could do what you did

But the many many tries

The broken not works

The hurts the cries

The tears and pain or setbacks and stains

The cumulative small nudges and gains

All those seem to go unnoticed and forgotten

The "unfamous" moments of follow through grit

The effort required to make something of it

Many don't consider any of that

Because most cannot fathom that

Hard work, resolve, and down moments

are all part of the journey

Some judge one of your best days

Against one of their worst

Joy will come perhaps soon

Perhaps later

But when we choose to step

Into that state of being of yes it is possible

When we work to make it so

When we do the work and grind and fails

When we do all we can

It seems it is then we somehow stumble into the solution that works

We find or create the answer we believed could be

We invent a brighter light and create something special to illuminate humanity.

Begin the win which began so long ago

To realize the dream in practical reality

A young girl's game played by old women too

The faith to believe and do the work

because dreams really do come true

A choice to illuminate no matter how long the wait