[Verse 1]
Shoved my books inside the locker
Laughing as my papers fall
Heard my name turned into poison
Sprayed in marker on the wall
Tried to fold myself up smaller
Hide my colors
Blur my face
Counting tiles inside the bathroom
Just to make it through the day
[Pre-Chorus]
Every whisper felt like thunder in my chest
Thought if I disappeared
Maybe I could rest
[Chorus]
This is for the outcasts
Heads down in the back row
For the ones who learned to walk this hallway slow
You are not the names they wrote in ink on your skin
You are every time you chose to rise again
Raise your hands
Broken hearts together
We are loud
We are brave
We are better
This is for the outcasts
And we’re not backing down
[Verse 2]
Cut my hair to stop their comments
Changed my clothes a hundred times
Learned to laugh at all their punches
Turned my crying into lines
On a page I kept in secret
Where I finally spoke my name
Wrote a world where I was wanted
Till I felt it in my veins
[Pre-Chorus]
Every scar became a letter in my song
Every shaky breath kept pushing me along
[Chorus]
This is for the outcasts
Heads down in the back row
For the ones who learned to walk this hallway slow
You are not the names they wrote in ink on your skin
You are every time you chose to rise again
Raise your hands
Broken hearts together
We are loud
We are brave
We are better
This is for the outcasts
And we’re not backing down
[Bridge]
One day they’ll say they knew you
When your story lights the dark (oh)
But even if they never do
You’ve been golden from the start
So if you’re sitting in the bathroom stall
Tracing lines along the cracks
Hear my voice inside the echo:
You are so much more than that
[Chorus]
This is for the outcasts
Heads down in the back row
For the ones who learned to walk this hallway slow
You are not the names they wrote in ink on your skin
You are every time you chose to rise again
Raise your hands
Broken hearts together
We are loud
We are brave
We are better
This is for the outcasts
And we’re not backing down
[Outro]
This is for the outcasts
Stand up
Sing it now
We are not the outcasts
We are shining
Here and now