Intro Yeah Late nights make the truth come clean When the noise die down and it’s just you and the dream All them bright-ass lights look small from a distance When you finally learn the difference between attention and existence Verse 1 I had the world in my ear, all gas and glitter Big-school talk, big checks, all shine, no center Every grown man in the room had a polished pitch Tryna tell me what my life worth, like they built this shit They see stars by my name, see a headline in cleats See a boy they can market, put a logo on, and eat But I ain’t never been the type to worship at the glow I seen what fake fame do, I come from where it shows Vegas taught me bright things burn fast in the wind Taught me every loud room ain’t got truth in it Taught me the flash hit hard, but it don’t stay long And if you build your soul on hype, that foundation gone So I kept hearin’ that word in the back of my chest Not fame, not buzz, not who cuts the biggest check Just somethin’ older, deeper, heavier than likes Somethin’ that still means somethin’ when they kill the lights Pre-Chorus Yeah, the flash get loud But the truth talk slow And the roads worth takin’ Ain’t the ones that glitter most I had to tune out the noise Let my real self talk That’s when I knew in my bones It was legacy over lights Chorus Legacy over lights That’s the line I chose Not the prettiest road But the one that holds When the crowd go home And the shine burns out I need somethin’ in my name That the dark can’t drown Legacy over lights Yeah, that’s how I ride Not for the quick applause Not for a famous life I’d rather bleed for somethin’ That still stands with time So I put legacy over lights And made that choice mine Verse 2 And yeah, Ashley had me seein’ Norman in a glow Made the night feel warmer than I’d ever wanna show Made that place feel human, made the stillness hit true But I won’t lie and say love made me do what I do She mattered, hell yeah But the truth cuts clean I was hearin’ Oklahoma long before sixteen Long before that visit, long before her eyes Long before I knew what it felt like to want two things at one time That’s what made it hard That’s what made it real When your heart find somethin’ soft and your blood find steel When one road got a feeling and one road got a flame And somehow they both met in the same damn name Still, this had to last beyond a kiss in the dark Beyond a good night talk and a fast young heart Had to be the kind of choice I could stand in beat-up years When the wins ain’t easy and the pain don’t disappear Pre-Chorus Yeah, the flash get loud But the truth talk slow And the roads worth takin’ Ain’t the ones that glitter most I had to tune out the noise Let my real self talk That’s when I knew in my bones It was legacy over lights Chorus Legacy over lights That’s the line I chose Not the prettiest road But the one that holds When the crowd go home And the shine burns out I need somethin’ in my name That the dark can’t drown Legacy over lights Yeah, that’s how I ride Not for the quick applause Not for a famous life I’d rather bleed for somethin’ That still stands with time So I put legacy over lights And made that choice mine Bridge Let ‘em keep the cameras Let ‘em keep the clout Let ‘em chase the easy road and post the whole thing out I need weight in the name Need truth in the call Need somethin’ that’s bigger than the rise and the fall I ain’t scared of hard I ain’t built for fake I’d rather carry pressure than get hollowed out by praise So if the whole world ask me why I took this road tonight I’ma look ‘em dead inside and say: legacy over lights Breakdown Yeah Not for the fame Not for the shine Not for the girls Not for the dollar signs For the kid in the living room Dreamin’ in that glow Tryna become a man He could actually know Final Chorus Legacy over lights That’s the line I chose Not the prettiest road But the one that holds When the crowd go home And the shine burns out I need somethin’ in my name That the dark can’t drown Legacy over lights Yeah, that’s how I ride Not for the quick applause Not for a famous life I’d rather bleed for somethin’ That still stands with time So I put legacy over lights And made that choice mine Outro Yeah Lights fade fast But a name live on And I knew what I was chasin’ Had been there all along Not the flash Not the hype Not the world in my sights Just a hard young heart Choosin’ legacy over lights
