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.)
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[To fade]
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Standing Out In A Crowd
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Trisha Yearwood |