Songtexte Standing On Your Shoulders - Ben Rector

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