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!