Joshua Houeto - Shine on Me Lyrics

I never knew that I was special till you showed me that I was
A bearer of the light and told me that I was a chosen vessel
I see you shine on me oh whoa oh shine on me oh whoa oh oh

Huh, ha, I thought that I was finished huh, ha but now I see it's
Just beginning, I was in a tight place I thought it was over
That's true, but you moved the boulders, that's true, and
Now I can throw up my hands and I will dance Lord you have
Taught me to become a man oh oh, all of my life I was told I
Was nothing by friends and my family even my mother had told
Me if she were to know I would be such a hideous problem
She would have just thrown me away in the dump from the jump
How can I feel like a son, listen, I was so broken so I caused
A commotion, no, but they never understood me, so, they just
Labeled me a special education child put me in behavior class
So I was behind the pack, teaching me much slower than I
Should have been learning, so naturally my peers were way
Ahead of me when turning, into the teenage years no
Mr. Feeny there, just a boy who meets the world so
Freaking unprepared, damn it and they had the nerve
To call me stupid, but education system this is what you did
I remember a teacher in grade 8, who told me after high school
I would never graduate or make it into university or college
Though, but there was something that these people didn't
Factor though, the purpose of my life was well established
Long ago, before I or any of them ever existed, so don't you
Ever tell me I won't shine, I made it into university, in my
First semester I got a 3.74 GPA, I'm a business owner now
In your face, can you believe that he's that guy that we
Thought would be a complete failure but look at him now
He's different, he's changed, is what my enemies say when
They see me on the way oh oh I'm changed oh oh I'm changed
Open invitation you can come and see, how I changed the
Lord has shined on me, open invitation you can come and
See how I changed the Lord has shined on me
Oh oh yea yea uh shine on me me me me me

I never knew that I was special till you showed me that
I was a bearer of the light and told me that I was a chosen vessel
I see you shine on me oh whoa oh shine on me oh whoa oh oh

I never knew that I was special till you showed me that
I was a bearer of the light and told me that I was a chosen vessel
I see you shine on me oh whoa oh shine on me oh whoa oh oh

Shining, He makes things beautiful in His own timing
Shining, He makes things beautiful in His own timing
Shining, He makes things beautiful in His own timing
Shining, He makes things beautiful in His own timing
He makes all things new, He makes all things new
He makes all things new, shining
He makes things beautiful in His own timing