She Started in a Little Girl's Bedroom lyrics

She got this far She got this far Pink walls and a window That faced the backyard oak A little girl with big dreams And words she never spoke She'd write them in a notebook Hide it under her bed A whole world living quietly Inside her little head Nobody knew how loud it was The silence that she kept She prayed before the morning came And cried herself to sleep She started in a little girl's bedroom Talking to the ceiling like it was God She started with nothing but a feeling That she was made for more than what she got Every dream she tucked beneath her pillow Every wish she made on broken stars She started in a little girl's bedroom And that little girl got her this far Mama down the hallway Daddy somewhere else She learned to be her own comfort Learned to raise herself She danced in front the mirror Pretending she was free Not knowing that the woman she'd become Was who she'd be Nobody knew how loud it was The silence that she kept She prayed before the morning came And cried herself to sleep She started in a little girl's bedroom Talking to the ceiling like it was God She started with nothing but a feeling That she was made for more than what she got Every dream she tucked beneath her pillow Every wish she made on broken stars She started in a little girl's bedroom And that little girl got her this far See her now in everything I do Every time I choose myself I'm choosing her too She didn't know it then But she was building me Every tear she cried in secret Was a part of my story She started in a little girl's bedroom Talking to the ceiling like it was God She started with nothing but a feeling That she was made for more than what she got Every dream she tucked beneath her pillow Every wish she made on broken stars She started in a little girl's bedroom And that little girl got her this far She got her this far She got her this far That little girl, she got her this far