VICTORY IS MINE [INTRO — lone electric guitar / heavy kick enters] Mmm. They thought the fight was the story. Nah. The story is— I'M STILL HERE. [BAND CRASH] [VERSE 1] I took the long road / with the weight on my back / Lost a little time / but I never lost track / Had doors slam shut / had my name dragged down / But every time they buried me / I came back around / I learned how to stand when nobody would stay / Learned how to build when they stood in my way / Now look at me, baby— I didn't just survive. I ARRIVED. [PRE-CHORUS] I paid for this in nights nobody saw / Fought for this when nobody called / Every scar / every mile / every damn hard time— Was mine. So this victory— IS MINE! [CHORUS — HUGE] VICTORY IS MINE! MINE! I DIDN'T COME THIS FAR TO LEAVE IT BEHIND! VICTORY IS MINE! MINE! Took every hard year and turned it to TIME! You can keep the doubt! Keep the fear! Keep every voice that said I'd never get here! I KNOW WHAT IT COST! I KNOW WHAT I SURVIVED! VICTORY— IS— MINE! [GUITAR RIFF] [VERSE 2] Nobody handed me a beautiful road / I learned how to carry an impossible load / Made something from nothing / then did it again / Turned every dead end into somewhere to begin / And I don't need revenge. Look at me. That's enough. I don't need them sorry. I got up. I don't need an apology to close that door— I WON when I stopped needing anything from them anymore. [PRE-CHORUS] Every NO put some steel in my spine / Every WAIT made me sharper with time / Every loss put another damn tool in my hand— NOW WATCH ME BUILD THE LIFE THEY SAID I CAN'T! [CHORUS] VICTORY IS MINE! MINE! I DIDN'T COME THIS FAR TO LEAVE IT BEHIND! VICTORY IS MINE! MINE! Took every hard year and turned it to TIME! Keep the doubt! Keep the fear! I brought myself all the way from there to HERE! I KNOW WHAT IT COST! I KNOW WHAT I SURVIVED! VICTORY— IS— MINE! [GUITAR SOLO — bluesy, dirty, screaming bends] [BREAKDOWN — bass / kick / handclaps] Hold up. Victory ain't always everybody clapping. Sometimes victory is you finally sleeping at night. [BACKGROUND WOMEN] MINE. [LEAD] Money in the bank. MINE. Peace in my house. MINE. Keys in my hand. MINE. Name on the paper. MINE. Choice in my life. MINE. Nobody holding my survival over my head— [BACKGROUND] NOT THIS TIME! [LEAD] Say it again! [ALL] NOT. THIS. TIME! [DRUM BUILD] I didn't fight this hard just to stand outside of my own damn life. MOVE. [BAND EXPLODES] [FINAL CHORUS] VICTORY IS MINE! MINE! EVERY LAST INCH OF THIS LIFE IS MINE! VICTORY IS MINE! MINE! I LOST SOME YEARS BUT I DIDN'T LOSE TIME! 'CAUSE I LEARNED! I GREW! I BUILT! I KNEW! One day that road was gonna break on through! And HERE I AM! STILL ALIVE! STILL BUILDING! STILL RISING! STILL MINE! [ALL — STOMP CHANT] MINE! (VICTORY!) MINE! (VICTORY!) MINE! (VICTORY!) [LEAD] Who said I couldn't have it? [BACKGROUND] WHO?! [LEAD] Who said I wouldn't make it? [BACKGROUND] WHO?! [LEAD — LAUGH] That's what I thought. [FINAL GUITAR HIT] Victory. Is. MINE.
