Standing On Your Shoulders

I'm on a stage right now

It's wild that it's me they're here to listen to

And not some other fool

You're back in my hometown

I've been meaning to call you up

And ask what you've been doing

I bet cleaning out the pool

You believed in me when no one did

You'll always have a part of this

Deep down I'm just a little kid

Hoping I make you proud

I've been standing on your shoulders

For my whole life

Wasn't 'til I started getting older

That I started realizing

All the ways you made a way for me

The things you sacrificed

I'm up here 'cause I've been standing on your shoulders

For my whole life, yeah

My whole life

It shouldn't be this hard

To tell someone the part they played in making you

Guess that's why we never do

So I wrote this down

It ain't half of what I'd really like to say to you

But it'll have to do

You had a quiet steady confidence

You said it without saying it

Days and years and brick-by-brick

You said I made you proud

I've been standing on your shoulders

For my whole life

Wasn't 'til I started getting older

That I started realizing

All the ways you made a way for me

And things you sacrificed

I'm up here 'cause I've been standing on your shoulders

For my whole life

My whole life

I've been standing on your shoulders my whole life

Oh, yeah-yeah

In your rolled-up sleeves

You did the best you could

You saw the best in me

And that's more than I could ask for

I've been standing on your shoulders

For my whole life

It took getting older

'Fore I started realizing

All the ways you made a way for me

And things you sacrificed

I'm up here 'cause I've been standing on your shoulders

For my whole life

My whole life

I've been standing on your shoulders my whole life

Yeah

My whole life