Title: “Tryin’ Anyway”

(Verse 1)

I don’t wear the right clothes, don’t say the right things

I trip on my words and fall out of sync

They’ve got circles I can’t seem to spin in

Like there’s a rulebook I was never given

I smile when I’m breaking, stay calm when I shake

Keep showing up even when I ache

I study their faces, I copy their moves

But somehow I’m always the one who loses

(Pre-Chorus)

They don’t see the fire in my chest

They just see a girl who doesn’t fit with the rest

(Chorus)

But I’m tryin’, even when they look away

Tryin’, even when there’s nothing they say

I’m pushing through the noise, through the doubt

Even if no one ever figures me out

I fall, I cry, I break — but I stay

I don’t fit in…

But I’m tryin’ anyway

(Verse 2)

They laugh a little softer when I speak

Like I’m some puzzle that’s missing a piece

But I’ve got dreams they’ll never touch

And a heart that still believes too much

I care too loud, I feel too deep

I lose sleep over things they’d never keep

But I show up, and I give my all

Even if no one ever sees me at all

(Pre-Chorus)

I don’t shine the way they do

But I’ve got a light I’m holding onto

(Chorus)

And I’m tryin’, even when the room goes cold

Tryin’, though I never fit the mold

I’m climbing up through every no

Even if I’ve got a long way to go

I fall, I cry, I break — but I stay

I don’t fit in…

But I’m tryin’ anyway

(Bridge)

Maybe I was made to stand apart

To lead with my own kind of heart

Maybe fitting in ain’t the goal

Maybe I’m just learning to feel whole

(Final Chorus)

So I’m tryin’, not to be like them

Tryin’, just to love myself again

I’m rising up from what they don’t see

Becoming who I’m meant to be

I fall, I cry, I break — but I stay

I don’t fit in…

But I’m tryin’ anyway