| Mother said: «Stand up straight.
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| «Don't let your classmates make,
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| «You feel like you don’t belong.
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| «So not like the rest of them,
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| «Someday, the best of them,
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| «Will realize they were wrong.»
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| But in my world, different, an’then lonely
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| The last place I wanted to be…
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| Was standing out in a crowd,
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| Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out.
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| What are they whisperin’about?
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| You’re thinkin’up ways to take up less space…
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| I can’t see the grace in it…
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| Standin’out in a crowd. |
| (Standing out.)
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| Too short, too tall;
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| Flower against the wall…
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| The last one chosen to play.
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| Too smart, too dumb,
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| Too strange a place to be from…
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| Same shoes every day.
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| With all these ways to be different,
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| Then maybe that’s how you fit in.
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| By standing out in the crowd,
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| Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out.
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| What are they whisperin’about?
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| You’re thinkin’up ways to take up less space…
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| Instead of embracing it…
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| Standin’out in a crowd. |
| (Standing out.)
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| It’s funny how now,
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| It’s not such a bad place to be.
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| Standing out in a crowd. |
| (Standing out in a crowd.)
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| Standing out in a crowd.
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| Standing out in a crowd, (Standing out.)
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| Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out.
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| What are they whisperin’about?
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| You’re thinkin’up ways to take up less space…
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| There’s no escapin’it…
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| Standin’out in a crowd. |
| (Standing out.)
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| Standin’out in a crowd. |
| (Standing out.)
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| (Standin'out.) |