INTRO: C    G    C    G    F  C  G  C  F  C  G

F           C
Mother said stand up straight
G              C
Don't let your classmates make
F             C           G
You feel like you don't belong


           F            C
So, you're not like the rest of them
G           Am            F
Someday the best of them
                       G
Will realize they were wrong


       Am G      Em              F
But in my world, different meant lonely
    Am   G       F         G
The last place I wanted to be, was



CHORUS:
C        F        Dm7    G
Standing out in a crowd
          C         F             Dm7         G
Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out
C             F           Dm7     G
What are they whispering about?
      F                   C
We're thinking up ways to take up less space
    Eb                         G
You can't see the grace in it
                  F  C  G  C  F  C  G
Standing out in a crowd


F          C
Too short, too tall
G       C
Flower against the wall
    F        C         G
The last one chosen to play


F          C
Too smart, too dumb
G             Am          F
Too strange a place to be from
                 G
Same shoes every day


     Am  G     Em         F
With all these ways to be different
     Am G         F           G
Then maybe that's how you fit in, by


CHORUS:
C        F        Dm7    G
Standing out in a crowd
          C         F             Dm7         G
Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out
C             F           Dm7     G
What are they whispering about?
      F                   C
We're thinking up ways to take up less space
  Eb                     G
Instead of embracing it
                  F  C  G  C  F  C  G
Standing out in a crowd


BRIDGE:
     Bb
It's funny how now
     F                       G C G    C   G
E|t's| not such a bad place to be----
                  F  C  G  C  F  C  G
Standing out in a crowd
                  F  C  G 
Standing out in a crowd


CHORUS:
C        F        Dm7    G
Standing out in a crowd
          C         F             Dm7         G
Where the spotlight finds you and singles you out
C             F           Dm7     G
What are they whispering about?
      F                   C
We're thinking up ways to take up less space
Eb                      G
There's no escaping it
                  F  C  G  C  F  C  G
Standing out in a crowd
                  F  C  G  C  F  C  G
Standing out in a crowd