I´m on a stage right now
And 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 till 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

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 till 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

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
Before 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
My whole life