Sometimes Winning Teaches You Wrong v1

[Intro] It worked ... That's dangerous [Verse 1] Did the wrong thing at the right time Got away clean Held too long Still made money Look at me learning Nothing hurt Nothing broke Nobody came to correct me Just a little green number saying do that again [Pre-Chorus] Oh That's how it happens [Chorus 1] Sometimes winning teaches you wrong Makes a bad move feel like instinct Makes you swear you knew all along You get paid before you notice what the payment turned you into Sometimes losing ain't the danger Sometimes winning teaches you wrong [Instrumental] [Verse 2] I've done that with people too Stayed too long They stayed longer Called it love Pushed too hard Got my way Called that strength Funny How a thing can work and still be teaching you something you don't wanna learn [Pre-Chorus] There it is The reward wearing a lesson I never chose [Chorus 2] Sometimes winning teaches you wrong Makes survival look like wisdom Makes the outcome prove the method when the method was the problem I can get exactly what I wanted and still ask what did this teach me to become? Sometimes winning ... teaches you wrong [Long Instrumental] [Verse 3] So now I don't just ask Did it work? That's easy I wanna know what part of me got stronger when it did Was it patience? Was it judgment? Was it knowing when enough was enough? ... Or did I just get lucky while becoming someone I don't trust? [Instrumental] [Bridge] Ohhh That's worse A loss will make you look But a win? A win can make you blind It can put a crown on a habit that would've buried you another night It can make a warning feel like proof It can make the wrong lesson feel earned ... Take the crown off [Instrumental Expansion] [Final Chorus] Winning doesn't make it wisdom Working once don't make it right I can take what came to meet me without letting it rewrite my eyes I can keep the good that found me and still question how I came I don't need the win to tell me what the lesson gets to say Sometimes winning teaches you wrong Now I know to check [Extended Instrumental] [Outro] It worked ... Good What did it teach me?