[Verse 1]
Mother said, "Stand up straight, don't make 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

[Chorus]
Wa 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

[Verse 2]
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

[Chorus]
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
[Bridge]
It's funny how now it's not such a bad place to be
Standing out in a crowd
Standing out in a crowd

[Chorus]
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

[Refrain]
Standing out in a crowd