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)