From the recording I BUILT THIS LIFE
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Lyrics
Intro (Spoken Soul)
Funny...
People love predicting your ceiling.
Especially when they've never seen your sky.
Hook (Soul Vocal)
Look at me now
Same woman, different season
Look at me now
Every scar came with a reason
The doors they closed became my windows
The losses taught me how somehow
They counted me out
Look at me now
Verse 1 (Soul-Rap)
I remember sitting in rooms
Where my ideas arrived before my credit did
Watching people borrow my vision
Then explain it back to me
Like discovery
I remember the polite smiles
The subtle doubts
The "maybe next time"
Dressed up as encouragement
But pressure did what pressure always does
It revealed structure
And mine was built stronger
Than their assumptions
See, I wasn't losing
I was loading
Gathering experience
For a version of myself
They hadn't met yet
Hook (Soul Vocal)
Look at me now
Same woman, different season
Look at me now
Every scar came with a reason
The doors they closed became my windows
The losses taught me how somehow
They counted me out
Look at me now
Verse 2 (Soul-Rap)
Success ain't revenge
Success is peace
It's sleeping good
Without replaying old conversations
It's walking into spaces
Without shrinking first
It's knowing your value
Before introductions happen
I stopped competing with people
And started competing with hesitation
Stopped asking whether I belonged
And started deciding where I wanted to be
That's a different frequency
A different posture
A different understanding
Of power
Bridge (Soul Vocal)
The woman I needed
Was always becoming
Through every setback
Through every ending
Breakdown (Soul-Rap)
No bitterness.
No scorekeeping.
No victory lap.
Just growth.
The loudest answer
To every doubt I ever heard
Wasn't an argument.
It was progress.
Final Hook (Big Soul Vocal)
Look at me now
Everything they overlooked survived
Look at me now
Every dream they questioned came alive
The road got rough
The nights got long
But somehow I found my route
They counted me out
Now look at me now
Outro
The best comeback
Isn't proving them wrong.
It's finally proving yourself right.