Everybody wanna be heard everybody wanna be seen
Everybody wanna be known and everybody got some dreams
We wanna be understood not overlooked
And when we fall who's go'n carry us underwood
We need love and affection time and attention
Affirmation acceptance someone to give direction
Set apart from the rest and we wanna stand distinguished
And be the cool kid like a jeff english
Been on a quest for this ever since genesis
But settling for fool's gold instead of what the treasure is
Chasing after numbers yo this must have been our exodus
We don't want no jesus unless he's chilling on our necklaces
Formerly known way before the moment i was born
I'm not an accident or it'd of blown
The one that made me gave me purpose
Now i don't gotta go on searching
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Formerly known
What you looking at now not what i always been
I ain't bragging on my past but buddy i was trapped in sin
No power in myself to overcome my flesh
I bought clothes to get undressed but god revealed my nakedness
A hostile enemy speech was all venomy
Jesus was a nice guy but wasn't no friend to me
My lips said i loved him my actions despised his reign
I had my own agenda i was my own king
Then he came i was changed by grace through faith
Every dollar that i owed it was paid paid paid paid
Sin's bill was something i couldn't pick up
Now i got my hands raised high like a stick-up
He know me even better than i know myself
Every hair on my head every need i felt
Seeking for i'm gone gotta get to know him
C-lite no more but the lights still on
Formerly known way before the moment i was born
I'm not an accident or it'd of blown
The one that made me gave me purpose
Now i don't gotta go on searching
{2x}
Formerly known
Before i'm gone i gotta get to know him
C-lite no more but the lights still on (2x)