[Verse 1]
They laugh at her shoes
Call her names
Just for fun
Marker on her locker
They think it’s just one more joke
Eyes on the floor
Counting tiles to the bell
Lunch in the bathroom
Just to hide the swell in her chest
[Chorus]
But she’s folding paper planes in her locker
Tiny wings out of homework lines
Writing “one day I’ll fly past you”
In the crease where the paper shines
Every cruel word
Every shove in the hallway
She tucks inside the frame
One day she’ll walk right through those doors
And they’ll just see
Her paper planes
[Verse 2]
Teacher calls her name
Voice shakes
Hands in her sleeves
Back row snickers echo
Like they’re living rent-free in her dreams
Mama says “they’re scared
Of the things they don’t understand”
So she draws herself as older
With the world resting in her hands
[Chorus]
Yeah
She’s folding paper planes in her locker
Tiny wings out of homework lines
Writing “one day I’ll fly past you”
In the crease where the paper shines
Every cruel word
Every shove in the hallway
She tucks inside the frame
One day she’ll walk right through those doors
And they’ll just see
Her paper planes
[Bridge]
Maybe tomorrow
She tells one friend the truth
Maybe next summer
She believes it too
That this small
Scared girl
Is just chapter one
And the wind she needs
Is already in her lungs (oh)
[Chorus]
So she’s folding paper planes in her locker
Tiny wings out of homework lines
Writing “one day I’ll fly past you”
Like a promise she’ll underline
Every cruel word
Every shove in the hallway
She turns into a flame
One day she’ll walk right through those doors
Say “you don’t get
To write my name”
And the sky outside that old brick school
Will fill with all
Her paper planes