Luck

Lyrics

[Hook]

You think it was luck
You think it was luck
You think it was luck, right?
You think it was luck
You think it was luck, right?
You think it was luck

[Verse 1]

You think it was luck I was left on the side
I took pressure kept motion
Kept me a note of them nights I was broke
When the focus was low still holding composure
Now they approach like it happened in moments
Like I didn’t sit in the cold with the closure
You think it was luck I was loading that struggle
I wrote it in code now I’m owning the culture

You think it was luck I was losing my sleep
While they sleeping on me now they peeking like how did he do it
I had to pursue it maneuver through ruin
The view was polluted still moving with fluid
Now they be choosing to say it was chance
I enhanced every plan I was using
You think it was luck I was cut from the grind
Every line intertwined I was built to improve it

Adapting to tension no panic
Just patterns and habits I practiced precise
Nothing was handed I planned it
Expanded the canvas they can’t even stand in my sight
Now they reciting the highlights
But never them nights I was fighting to keep it inside
You think it was luck I was writing my life
Every line by design now it’s finally aligning

[Hook]

You think it was luck
You think it was luck
You think it was luck, right?
You think it was luck

[Verse 2]

You think it was luck I was trekking to lessons in heat
With the sneakers all cracked at the toe
Dust on the road every step feeling heavy
Still steady I’m pressing ahead on a path I ain’t chose
To and fro with the gallons of water
We carried the distance filling the drums at home
You think it was luck I was young learning early
That effort is currency nobody loans

Lights would go out in the middle of homework
The room going dim but the will wouldn’t dim
Candles shaking on notebooks
I’m scribbling visions through smoke in the wind
Laugh in the dark
Or the silence’ll start creeping under your skin
You think it was luck I was training my focus
Where pressure was normal and quit wasn’t in

I came from a place where the strain and the pain intertwine
But the moments still light
Where you ration and stretch every measure of bread
Make it spread make it last through the night
Neighbors relate we would share what we had
Even laughter was part of the life
You think it was luck I was rich in a way
That don’t show on a scale but it’s part of my life

Then I got older and noticed the pattern
The problem was planted and rooted in power
Not cracks in the system
The system designed to diminish the spirit and drain every hour
Where people are pleading and bleeding in public
And leaders are speaking in polished accounts from a tower
You think it was luck I was raised where the grief gets reduced
To a stat and a speech every couple of hours
My country breaks you in phases
It presses and stretches your patience then blames you for falling behind
Cuts off the light then it sends you a bill for the dark
Like you owe it for wasting the time
You try to take flight
But it tightens the grip on your ankle then anchors your plans to the grind
You think it was luck I was stuck in a cycle that spirals
And still I was setting my sight on a climb

[Hook]

You think it was luck
You think it was luck
You think it was luck, right?
You think it was luck

[Verse 3]

I ain’t had it the worst though
I seen what the worst hold
I know what the earth show in corners forgotten
Kids in the dust where the sun never soften
Where hunger is louder than guns in the distance that’s popping
Places where breath feel expensive
Where oxygen almost a luxury bought at a cost you can’t bargain
You think it was luck when a child wakes up breathing in places
Where life is the hardest
Bellies inflated from hunger, the bones showing under the skin
Mothers just hoping tomorrow bring something even water to drink
You think it was luck that some made it through nights
Where survival was all they were fighting to hold

[Bridge]

It’s not what you see
It’s the work in the dark
It’s the times that you gave when it wasn’t enough
It’s moving and bleeding and giving again
When you feel like you’re calling a bluff
You think it was luck or the fact they kept going
When most would’ve stopped when it got tough

[Verse 4]

This for the ones who been doubting themselves
Who been hearing you can’t every step that you take
Who been laughed at and pushed to the edge
Had your plans getting crushed every move that you make
You either fold or you fight when it’s heavy
When pressure is pressing and testing your faith
You think it was luck or the reason you win
Is you didn’t stop swinging when life hit your face

[Hook]

You think it was luck
You think it was luck
You think it was luck, right?
You think it was luck

[Outro]

You think it was luck
You think it was luck
You think it was luck, right?
You think it was luck