i saw the light i saw the light oh i saw the light he lived in a crowded jamaican infirmary many were brought there to die days of starvation complete deprivation and illness had taken his sight but a doctor came to the village there and treated him with the finest care said that time would tell the doctor went to bed that night and when he awoke in the morning light the man could not be found he was singing from a hill oh i can see i saw the light i saw the light oh i saw the light and he sang amazing grace to show a loving god for all to know with love and faith and grace oh i can see we met and my eyes could not hide how i felt when i looked at him tattered and torn but he captured me with a smile that seems so out of place from the pain he d endured and he told me of a sacrifice that had given him eternal life he was not alone he spoke about a greater plan and i began to understand my life was not my own and i am here to say and i sang amazing grace to show a loving god for all to know with love and faith and grace oh i can see amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me oh i once was lost but now am found was blind but now i see 