Still That Girl

Oh my gosh.

I found my old songwriting notebook.

Wow.

My handwriting was terrible. (hahaha)

...But I had some pretty big dreams.

There’s a little pink notebook In a drawer beside my bed

Full of half-finished love songs And the things I never said

There’s a picture on the mirror

Of a girl with crooked bangs

Holding up a hairbrush microphone Like the whole wide world could hear

her sing

She didn’t know the road ahead

Or how the story would unfold

But she believed in something Even when nobody told her so I’m

still that girl

With a song inside her chest Still making little wishes Still trying

to do her best

I’ve seen a bigger world Than I ever thought I’d see

But the girl who dreamed of getting here Is still a part

of me

Through every twist and turn

And everything I’ve learned I’m still that girl

I remember singing way too loud Till the neighbors knocked at eight

And writing down my future autograph Before I had a single fan

to thank

I wore sunglasses in the kitchen

Practiced interviews alone

Told my mom I’d be a superstar She said,

“Great, now put your laundry home!” (hehe)

And some of those dreams came true

In ways I couldn’t plan

But I still call my mother When I don’t know who I

am

I’m still that girl

With a song inside her chest Still making little wishes Still trying

to do her best

I’ve seen a bigger world Than I ever thought I’d see

But the girl who dreamed of getting here Is still a part

of me

Through every twist and turn

And everything I’ve learned I’m still that girl

If I could sit beside her

On that old bedroom floor

I’d tell her there’s a thousand things She hasn’t dreamed of yet

in store

I’d tell her she’ll make mistakes And laugh at all the wrong

times And some days she’ll feel smaller

Under all those bigger lights

But don’t you change that funny laugh Or the way you care

too much

The world might learn your name someday But that’s not what makes

you enough

I’M STILL THAT GIRL

With a song inside her chest Still making little wishes Still trying

to do her best

I’ve seen a bigger world Than I ever thought I’d see

But the girl who dreamed of getting here Is still a part

of me

And if the lights go

down And the whole world turns away

I’ll still have all these songs to sing And a reason to

sing them anyway Through every twist and turn

And everything I’ve learned I’m still that girl Still that girl

With a hairbrush in her hand Still believing

In the things she barely understands

Hey, little me…

We did okay.