[Intro - Call and Answer] [Call - Soloist, light and mocking] They laughed at me, they turned away, [Answer - Group, rhythmic and sharp] (What’d they say? What’d they say?) [Call - Soloist, dramatic and somber] They said I’d never find my place. [Answer - Group, whispering chant] (Hide your face, hide your face!) [Verse 1 - Rhythmic and Building] [Group snaps fingers to keep rhythm, bass hums low notes] Soloist: I showed them who I am inside, Group: (Turned their backs, ran to hide!) Soloist: Now I wear a thousand masks, Group: (To cover what they’ll never ask.) [Call - Soloist, louder, anguished] But underneath, I’m still that fool! [Answer - Group, chanting] (Still that fool! Still that fool!) Soloist: The one who broke their precious rules. [Answer - Group, sarcastic, rising] (Precious rules! Precious rules!) [Pre-Chorus - Unified Harmony] So now I know, I’ll never show, The side of me they’ll never know. [Chorus - Sing-Along Hook] [All voices, layered and bouncing] I’m a reject! (Reee-jact!) Hide it, disguise it, You won’t see it, deny it. I’m a reject! (Ooooh, reee-jact!) Cast away, cast away! [Funny Sing-Along Break - Call and Answer] [Call - Soloist, playful, fast-paced] Who’s a reject? [Answer - Group, in time, rising] (We’re all rejects!) [Call - Soloist, dramatic] What do we hide? [Answer - Group, exaggerated whisper] (The pain inside!) [Call - Soloist, confidently] And what do we do? [Answer - Group, yelling] (Laugh it through!) [Call - Soloist, sarcastic and sly] And why do we lie? [Answer - Group, deflated and slow] (‘Cause it feels too true...) [Verse 2 - Playful and Rhythmic] [Group hums with quick, rhythmic claps] Soloist: I looked into their empty eyes, Group: (Each time I tried, the hope just dies.) Soloist: Now I speak in borrowed tones, Group: (Their words are mine, no voice of my own.) [Call - Soloist, soft and bitter] But underneath, it tears at me... [Answer - Group, harmonized, rising] (At me, at me, tearing me!) Soloist: A secret I will never free. [Answer - Group, eerie, fading] (Never free, never free, never free...) [Pre-Chorus - Unified Harmony] So now I laugh and play along, ‘Cause being me is always wrong. [Chorus - Sing-Along Hook] [All voices, bolder and rhythmic] I’m a reject! (Reee-jact!) Hide it, disguise it, You won’t see it, deny it. I’m a reject! (Ooooh, reee-jact!) Cast away, cast away! [Bridge - Layered Vocals, Somber and Chanting] [Group hums a haunting melody, layered harmonies] Why try to be (Whooo-oooh) When all they do (Is break me down) I’ll never be (Never be) Anything but (Their bitter sound) [Final Chorus - Explosive and Triumphant] [All voices, full harmony, building to a climax] I’m a reject! (Reee-jact!) Hide it, disguise it, You won’t see it, deny it.
