TOLD YOU SO

They said slow down,

I said watch me go,

Said I didn't know—now they wanna know.

Every closed door, every cheap low blow,

Put

it on the record— (TOLD YOU SO!)

I was right— (RIGHT!) Whole damn time— (RIGHT!) You had your guess,

I had mine, Difference is mine crossed the finish line.

Call it luck, call it ego,

Call it anything you need though,

Said I'd get here long ago— (TOLD!

YOU! SO!)

Everybody's certain when they're certain you're wrong,

Funny how that certainty disappears when you're on.

Had a hundred good reasons I should've withdrawn,

Now the same hundred reasons wanna sing along.

You talked big, I took notes,

You made jokes, I built boats,

You saw smoke, I saw hope,

Now I'm waving from the thing you said would never float.

Said the road was closed,

so I made my lane,

Said the odds were bad,

still I played that game.

Said I'd lose my nerve,

said I'd break, I'd change,

Now you're changing your story while I'm saying the same.

I remember every ‘no,’ every laugh,

every doubt, Every expert in the room who had me figured out.

Funny thing about facts when the truth comes out— They don't need

permission just to shut your mouth.

(TOLD YOU SO!)

Could've argued, didn't need to,

Time keeps score and truth sees through.

Kept my mouth shut,

let the work speak too— Now the bill came due,

guess who? (YOU!)

Who knew? (YOU!) How long?

(WHOLE DAMN TIME!)

I was right— (RIGHT!)

Whole damn time— (RIGHT!)

You had your guess,

I had mine, Difference is mine crossed

the finish line.

Call it luck, call it ego,

Funny how the receipts know,

Said I'd get here long ago— (TOLD!

YOU! SO!)

Don't come around with the ‘I always knew’,

I remember who vanished when the numbers were two.

I remember bad advice dressed up like truth,

Now you're acting like the plan was obvious to you.

Nope. Keep the revision,

keep the applause, Keep that convenient selective recall.

You called it impossible,

I called your bluff,

You needed proof—I was proof enough.

Wrong turn, long nights,

no map, no guide,

Still bet everything on the voice inside.

You were betting I'd stop,

I was betting I'd rise,

Now the scoreboard's talking and it doesn't tell lies.

Don't need roses, don't need praise,

Don't rewrite what you used to say.

Keep that doubt, put it on display— Makes being right taste better

this way.

Who said quit?— (THEY DID!) Who stayed?— (YOU DID!) Who said no?—

(THEY DID!) Who still went?—

(YOU DID!) Who was right?— (YOU WERE RIGHT!) How long?— (THE WHOLE

DAMN TIME!) Say it louder!— (YOU WERE RIGHT!) Then say it like

you mean it—

I was right, whole damn time,

Took your doubt and made it rhyme.

You had yours and I had mine— Mine just crossed the finish

line. No rewind, no ‘we both know,’ Don't show up now for

the victory show. One last question before I go—

WHAT'D I TELL YOU?

(TOLD! YOU! SO!)