Every Version

I was seventeen with a borrowed guitar

Writing little truths underneath bedroom stars

Thought every heartbreak meant the world had to end

Thought every goodbye was a door to a friend

I kept every ticket,

every note, every name

Every photograph where I didn’t look the same I didn’t know then

what I know now You can lose yourself and still figure it

out

Somewhere between the leaving

And learning how to stay

I became all those strangers

I was trying to outrun yesterday

Every version of me Is standing here tonight The girl who dreamed

too loudly The woman who learned to fight The one who loved

completely The one who walked away Every scar,

every song Every wrong turn along the way If you’ve ever felt

forgotten If you’ve ever changed your name If you’ve ever started over

You already know this place

Sing it like you mean it Let the whole room disagree With

everything they thought you were You’re every version of me (ooh-ooh)

I wore confidence like somebody else’s coat

Learned some people love you better when you don’t grow

There were nights I couldn’t recognize my face Then I heard an

old song and knew I’d found my way

Every version of me Is standing here tonight The girl who dreamed

too loudly The woman who survived The one who loved completely The

one who learned to leave

Every scar, every song Is a part of what you

see

Oh-oh-oh Every version

Oh-oh-oh

Every

version of me

Maybe the point was never

To become somebody new Maybe every girl I left behind Was leading

me to you

The first one taught me dreaming The broken one taught me trust

The lonely one taught me boundaries And the hardest one taught me

enough

You don’t have to erase it.

You don’t have to hide it.

You don’t have to become

Who somebody else decided.

Every version of me Is standing here tonight!

The girl who dreamed too loudly The woman who survived!

The one who loved completely The one who learned to leave Every

scar, every song Is a part of what you see!

If you’ve ever lost your way If you’ve ever started again Raise

your voice until they hear you And let the whole room sing!

You’re every version!

You’re every version! You’re every version

of me! (yeah-yeah-yeah!)

EVERY VERSION! OF ME!

Every version

of me.