Mistake

Verse 1

There’s a name tag hanging off my shirt But I don’t think it fits me right Everybody says I’m doing well I just nod and smile polite

I keep my trophies in the closet

With the boxes that they came in Sometimes I take them out at midnight Just to see if they still mean something

And the people in the photographs

Look a little more like strangers now I keep waiting for somebody

To come and tell me how

Pre-Chorus

I learned to laugh before the punchline Learned to leave before the blame If I never call it mine

They can never take my name

Chorus

I think somebody made a mistake

Put the wrong kid in the right place

Gave me wings and called it fate

Now I'm scared they'll see my face

And everybody says I'm golden

But I feel like borrowed paint

I'm just hoping no one notices

I'm not who they think I am

Oh, somebody made a mistake Somebody made a mistake

Verse 2

I rehearse my little conversations

In the mirror by the stairs

Practice sounding like

I know things

Like I didn't get here by accident

And I hate it when they praise me

'Cause I never know what to say

So I make a joke about being lucky

And I give the credit all away

There's a little voice inside my bedroom That gets louder when it's late

Says the door was left wide open

And I wandered through the gate

Pre-Chorus

I can memorize the answers I can learn to fake the tone

But I still feel like a visitor

In a house I call my own

Chorus

I think somebody made a mistake

Put the wrong kid in the right place

Gave me wings and called it fate

Now I'm scared they'll see my face

And everybody says I'm golden

But I feel like borrowed paint

I'm just hoping no one notices

I'm not who they think I am

Oh, somebody made a mistake Somebody made a mistake

Bridge

What if I'm not special?

What if that's okay?

What if all the stars I envy

Are just burning anyway?

What if I don't have to earn it?

What if I can just exist?

What if I'm the only person

Who doesn't know

I belong here yet?

I keep knocking on the door

Of a room I'm standing in

I keep asking for permission

From the person underneath my skin

Final Chorus

Maybe nobody made a mistake

Maybe I'm just scared to take my place Maybe I can have a bad day Without giving all my luck away

And everybody says I'm golden

I don't have to feel the same

Maybe I can stop pretending

That I'm waiting to be replaced

Oh, somebody made a mistake—