on the outside

I've been trying to keep
My feet on the ground
I feel like I'm floating
Scared that I'll always be
Alone in the crowd
Where nobody knows me

'Cause they all laugh
Behind my back
Like I don't know
That my whole life
Is the punchline
To a bad joke

I feel like I try
But it's the same every time
Do you know what it's like
On the outside
Why am I so surprised
When it's the same every time
Do you know what it's like
On the outside

Yeah
In a different life
I would go out at night
And make friends with strangers
I'd be someone they'd like
If I could just get it right
I wouldn't be such a failure

But they all laugh
Behind my back
Like I don't know
That my whole life
Is the punchline
To a bad joke

I feel like I try
But it's the same every time
Do you know what it's like
On the outside
Why am I so surprised
When it's the same every time
Do you know what it's like
On the outside

I'm standing on my own
I'm out here in the cold
I just want to come down
You can let me go
If I'm too much to hold
I'll get better somehow
I'm standing on my own
I'm out here in the cold
I just want to come down
You can let me go
If I'm too much to hold
I'll get better somehow

I feel like I try
But it's the same every time
Do you know what it's like (what it's like)
On the outside
Why am I so surprised
When it's the same every time
Do you know what it's like
On the outside