Ten, in the Cloakroom

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Verse

I am ten years old and hiding in the coats behind the bell
There are twenty-seven children and they're standing in a row
And they picked their teams already and there's nowhere left to go
So I'm counting all the boot prints that the morning left in snow
Oh the cloakroom smells like wet wool and it's warmer here, and so
I am not exactly crying, I'm just not exactly well
And I've got a book of dinosaurs that nobody can tell
Is the best thing in the building, but I know it very well

Chorus

It's okay, it's okay
There's a somebody who's waiting at the end of every line
And you won't believe how quickly you will not be only nine
And the ones who didn't pick you will be nothing but a sign
Oh I promise you, I promise you, I promise you it's fine
It's okay, it's okay
You are early, you are early, that is all, and that's okay
And the rest of it is coming, it is coming, it's on its way

Verse

There's a teacher who has noticed and she doesn't make a sound
She just leaves a piece of paper and a pencil on the chair
And she says the lunchroom's loud and I could stay right over there
And I draw a hundred dinosaurs and nobody would care
Oh I never said thank you to her, never anywhere
Mrs. Somebody, wherever you are standing on the ground
You were ten feet of an ocean when I couldn't hear a sound
And a kid is not forever, but a kindness sticks around

Chorus

It's okay, it's okay
There's a somebody who's waiting at the end of every line
And you won't believe how quickly you will not be only nine
And the ones who didn't pick you will be nothing but a sign
Oh I promise you, I promise you, I promise you it's fine
It's okay, it's okay
You are early, you are early, that is all, and that's okay
And the rest of it is coming, it is coming, it's on its way

Bridge

It will take a little while and I'm not saying it's not long
There'll be years you feel invisible and years you're not alright
There'll be hallways full of people and a hallway is a fight
But I've read ahead, I've seen it, and I'm telling you tonight
That the boy inside the cloakroom turns out absolutely right
You were never really broken, you were only very young
And the quiet that you're keeping is the start of every song
And you're going to be fine, and you were never in the wrong