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What Have I Come For?

ReleasedMarch 12, 2025
Track11 of 13
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2:32
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Lyrics

What have I come for? What have I come for?

Woke up alone, what do I know?
What is my name? Where is my home?
How do they live like they do? Denying the truth
They're hiding the proof, they lie to get through

What have I come for?
What is enough? Will there be more?
Is it fate? How can I be sure? Oh lord

What have I come for? (To give it a shake, a different take)
What have I come for? (If you're ready to break, I got the escape)
I'm feeling done for (Heaviest heart, get you a spark)
What have I come for and what have I done?
Heaven or hell, it's on me, yeah I'm the one

Pull my head out the sand
Open heart, reach out hand
Let it rise, hear the band
Take a breath, here's the plan

This place isn't great, what a mistake
But here I am standing in the same sullen god forsaken state
I trip the wire to start fire and I'm born to fan flames higher
Way up to the man in the spire
Send out the signal, it's pivotal, integral, digital
Call me a criminal, but don't figure it literal
Sleeper cell with the force, reshaping the score
Give it a try or a push, let light shine on the good

What have I come for? (what have I come for?)
Is it enough? Will there be more? Is it fate? How can I be sure?
Oh lord

What have I come for? (To give it a shake, a different take)
What have I come for? (If you're ready to break, I got the escape)
I'm feeling done for (Heaviest heart, get you a spark)
What have I come for and what have I done?
Heaven or hell, it's on me, yeah I'm the one

What have I come for, what have I done? (What have I come for?)
Heaven or hell, it's on me, I'm the one (oh)
What have I come for, what have I done? (What have I come for?)
Heaven or hell, it's on me, I'm the one (for)
What have I come for, what have I done?
Heaven or hell, it's on me, I'm the one
What have I come for, what have I done?
Heaven or hell, it's on me, I'm the one

What have I come for, what have I done?
Heaven or hell, it's on me, I'm the one
What have I come for, what have I done?
Heaven or hell, it's on me, I'm the one

About This Song

Existential reckoning with purpose that moves from disorientation through collective truth-telling to selfless mission. The narrator discovers they exist to spark light in a world hiding from truth.

What is the song “What Have I Come For?” by Chad Lewine about?

An autobiographically-inspired take on what some may be asking themselves as they journey through life with an awareness that sees through the veil of modernity.

— Chad Lewine

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