Mother said: "Stand up straight
"Don't let your classmates make,
"You feel like you don't belong
"So not like the rest of them,
"Someday, the best of them,
"Will realize they were wrong"
But in my world, different, an' then 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 whisperin' about?
You're thinkin' up ways to take up less space
I can't see the grace in it
Standin' out in a crowd (Standing out)

Too short, too tall;
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 the crowd,
Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out
What are they whisperin' about?
You're thinkin' up ways to take up less space
Instead of embracing it
Standin' out in a crowd (Standing out)

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, (Standing out)
Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out
What are they whisperin' about?
You're thinkin' up ways to take up less space
There's no escapin' it
Standin' out in a crowd (Standing out)
Standin' out in a crowd (Standing out)

(Standin' out)

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