Oh Say Can You See

You're just eleven and it ain't fair

They laugh about your clothes and your dreams going nowhere

Those Coppell mean girls like to talk

You used sit with the cool kids

But now they're calling you stupid

While you're eating all alone in a bathroom stall

Oh, darling, right now it's hard to understand that

This moment right here is gonna write your anthem

Oh say can you see

It don't matter what they think

And sometimes walking through the dark is the only way out

Hey, younger me

You'll get back off your knees

And up on a stage one day singing to the crowd

Oh say can you see me now?

Me now, yeah

Hold on to your microphone hairbrush

Even when the weight of the doubt feels too much

It's hard for you to believe what I believe

Oh

But I promise I'ma show you

They'll go from pretending they don't even know you

To singing every word to your songs in the nosebleeds, yeah

Oh say can you see

It don't matter what they think

And sometimes walking through the dark is the only way out

Hey, younger me

You'll get back off your knees

And up on a stage one day singing to the crowd

Oh say can you see me now?

It's kinda shaky in those shoes where you're standing

But just keep on dancing to the beat of your own anthem

Oh say can you see

It don't matter what they think

And sometimes walking through the dark is the only way out

Hey, younger me

You'll get back off your knees (Back off your knees)

And up on a stage one day singing to the crowd

Oh say can you see (Can you see, can you see me?)

Oh say can you see (Can you see, can you see me?)

Oh say can you see me now? (Can you see, can you see me now?)

Can you see, can you see me now?

Can you see me?

Can you see me now?

Can you see me now?