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Outside Lyrics

Artist: Mariah Carey
Album: Butterfly

VERSE 1
It's hard to explain
Inherently it's just always been strange
Neither here or there
Always somewhat out of place everywhere
Ambiguous
Without a sense of belonging to touch
Somewhere halfway
Feeling there's no one completely the same
CHORUS 1
Standing alone
Eager to just
Believe it's good enough to be what
You really are
But in your heart
Uncertainty forever lies
And you'll always be
Somewhere on the
Outside
VERSE 2
Early on, you face
The realization you don't
have a space
Where you fit in
And recognize you
Were born to exist
CHORUS 1
Standing alone
Eager to just
Believe it's good enough to be what
You really are
But in your heart
Uncertainty forever lies
And you'll always be
Somewhere on the
Outside
And it's hard
And it's hard
And it's hard
BRIDGE
Irreversibly
Falling in between
And it's hard
And it's hard
To be understood
As you are
As you are
Oh, and God knows
That you're standing on your own
Blind and unguided
Into a world divided
You're thrown
Where you're never quite the same
Although you try-try and try
To tell yourself
You really are
But in your heart-uncertainty forever lies
And you'll always be
Somewhere on the outside

Comments/Interpretations

by Jenn on 7/24/2010 9:46am
Such an amazing song: lyrics, arrangement, vocals. Mariah at her best. I think a lot of people can relate to this song.