Your Seams Showing Through

[Verse 1]
You fold your sleeves to hide the paint
You count your words before they land
You laugh too loud at your own joke
Then tuck your grin back in your hand

You keep a list of little rules
For how a person ought to be
But every box you squeeze into
Was drawn too small for you and me

[Pre-Chorus]
So let the crooked picture hang
Let the odd note ring out long
All those parts you tried to change
Were trying to make you whole

[Chorus]
Be strange, be loud, be wonderfully wrong
Take up the room you’ve been shrinking in for so long
Your bent little compass still points you somewhere true
The world gets less alive when it edits out you
So come as you are, with your seams showing through
Be strange, be loud—there’s a place here for you

[Verse 2]
You name your plants like old friends
Wear that coat in July heat
Turn every grocery run into
A private parade down the street

Your hands keep moving when you talk
Your mind takes side roads just for fun
You thought that made you hard to love
It’s how you make the colors come

[Pre-Chorus]
Let the crooked picture hang
Let the odd note ring out long
All those parts you tried to change
Were trying to make you whole

[Chorus]
Be strange, be loud, be wonderfully wrong
Take up the room you’ve been shrinking in for so long
Your bent little compass still points you somewhere true
The world gets less alive when it edits out you
So come as you are, with your seams showing through
Be strange, be loud—there’s a place here for you

[Bridge]
I kept my hands behind my back
I kept my questions in a drawer
Then you showed up wearing stars
On a jacket made for four
And I saw my own odd shape
In the way you took your space
No more sanding down the edges
No more asking to be plain

[Final Chorus]
Be strange, be loud, be wonderfully wrong
Take up the room you’ve been shrinking in for so long
Your bent little compass still points you somewhere true
The world gets less alive when it edits out you
Come as you are, let the whole room see through
All the bits you hid are the bits we came to choose
Be strange, be loud—there’s a place here for you
A place here for you

[Outro]
Your seams showing through
There’s a place here for you