Standing Out In A Crowd

Mother said stand up straight

Don't let your classmates make

You feel like you don't belong

So you're not like the rest of them

Someday the best of them

Will realize they were wrong

But in my world

Different meant lonely

The last place I wanted to be

Was

Standing out in a crowd

Where the spotlight finds you

And singles you out

What are they whispering about

You're thinking up ways

To take up less space

You can't see the grace in it

Standing out in a crowd

Too short, too tall

The flower against the wall

The last one chosen to play

Too smart, too dumb

Too strange a place to be from

Same shoes every day

With all these ways to be different then

Maybe that's how you fit in

By standing out in a crowd

Where the spotlight finds you

And singles you out

What are they whispering about

You're thinking up ways

To take up less space

Instead of embracing it

Standing out in a crowd

It's funny how now it's not such a bad place to be

Standing out in a crowd

(Standing out in a crowd)

Standing out in a crowd

Standing out in a crowd

Where the spotlight finds you

And singles you out

What are they whispering about

You're thinking up ways

To take up less space

There's no escaping it

Standing out in a crowd

(Standing out in a crowd)

Standing out in a crowd

(Standing out in a crowd)

(Standing out in a crowd)