Sweet Victory

Album: Rise (2014)
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  • I feel thorns where my crown was
    (I be weak but I'm alive)
    From the dusk until dawn yeah
    (I'll survive 'cause I got) sweet victory
    Nobody can take it from me sweet victory
    'Cause I got (sweet victory) yeah

    You see me limpin'
    I know you see me limpin'
    You can't tell on these CD's but bro I'm knee deep in it
    I'm waiting in my weakness he may be deep in it
    I be lyin' through my teeth to say I don't resent it
    Even as I right these lines I'm close to tears
    Body ain't be workin' right for 7 years
    So miss me with that keep your chin up try to smile
    Bro I'm 26 I should feel better by a mile
    Keep all your anecdotes and cute quotes
    I'll pass some clichés for true hopes it too dope

    I feel thorns where my crown was
    (I be weak but I'm alive)
    From the dusk until dawn yeah
    (I'll survive 'cause I got) sweet victory
    Nobody can take it from me sweet victory
    'Cause I got (sweet victory) yeah

    Toast to the King
    Cheers to the ceiling
    Feeling good we gon' make it to the finish (sweet victory)
    You hear me
    Holla if you feel me
    Yeah we still runnin' even though we limpin' (sweet victory)
    'Cause we winnin', yeah we know we winnin'
    Even though we're winnin' we're still in it (sweet victory)
    'Cause we winnin', yeah we know we winnin'
    Now we livin' (sweet victory)

    They see me on the stage
    They like that boy the man
    They hear play on them songs
    They clappin' in them stands
    They like "I bet you got a lot of good stuff from other bands"
    So when I say it's been a few hard years they think I'm playin'
    But you don't know my life boy
    You don't know my life boy
    You don't know what it's been like on my wife
    Don't know my fight boy
    Being in the trenches steady tryna' fight my foes
    And when I couldn't fight no more it brought me low, low
    It brought me low I know can't bet it low

    I feel thorns where my crown was
    (I be weak but I'm alive)
    From the dusk until dawn yeah
    (I'll survive 'cause I got) sweet victory
    Nobody can take it from me sweet victory
    'Cause I got (sweet victory) yeah

    Toast to the King
    Cheers to the ceiling
    Feeling good we gon' make it to the finish (sweet victory)
    You hear me
    Holla if you feel me
    Yeah we still runnin' even though we limpin' (sweet victory)
    'Cause we winnin', yeah we know we winnin'
    Even though we're winnin' we're still in it (sweet victory)
    'Cause we winnin', yeah we know we winnin'
    Now we livin' (sweet victory)

    They like I here you talkin' wins but I see your losses
    You celebratin' crowns but I see your crosses
    That's the paradox that don't fit in your Mary box
    You might not understand if you walk in this pair of socks
    The Victor ain't the one that's winnin' seventh inning
    Trophies don't go to the ones that got a good beginning
    When I say I win I don't mean the state I'm in
    I mean that day when the grace got fade out then
    I'm winning 'cause I ran with Him

    The crown of thorn
    Declares your King
    A scarlet robe can't cloak Your majesty
    They nailed Your hands
    You mailed our death
    From the cross You reigned
    Your Kingdom knows no end
    Oh, Jesus
    You won it all
    Oh, Jesus
    Victorious
    Oh, Jesus
    You won it all
    Oh, Jesus
    Victorious
    Oh, Jesus Writer/s: Dimitri McDowell, Gabriel Alberto Azucena, Joseph Ryan Prielozny, Natalie Lauren Sims, William Lee Barefield
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., MUSIC SERVICES, INC., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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