It’s hard to be you to be honest, be true when people want you to change when they only see you as strange

I want to open up To unleash my soul Let them flow freely But I'm not sure how

Sometimes You get swallowed by sadness Dragged down by loneliness And that's okay

There will always be people who want you to be something different Something that you are not Something that you don’t want to be

Not long ago You were always alone And no matter how you tried Nothing seemed to change that

People have always wanted you to be exactly one certain way They didn’t want you to change day after day after day

This label I was handed left me alone and stranded because it doesn’t fit the real me this isn’t what I want to be

When you were young you were handed a sign and they told you to hold it That it was who you were

You think there’s so much wrong with you That no one could possibly accept the real you So you bury it all deep down below Where no one will ever be able to go But despite everything “wrong”, you can still sparkle Because you see, all of this is completely normal

Your future was bright and shining Your smiles big and beaming But then you messed up and now there’s a voice That keeps yelling and screaming