She's an underdog who lives next door to me
She's always heard "you won't amount to anything"
And it kills me to watch the agony beyond her eyes
Tragic the way people pass her by
But now I realize that

Everyone sees her but nobody knows her
She screams in her pillow for a better tomorrow
She hates it but she takes it
Watch out for that girl
One day she may change the world

She's original, never trying to fit in
She's got a way to always go against the grain
Oh, yeah
Someday they'll see how beautiful she really is
I know that last will be the first
The tables gonna turn 'cause

Everyone sees her but nobody knows her
She screams in her pillow for a better tomorrow
She hates it but she fakes it
Watch out for that girl
One day she may change the world

Maybe she'll be in a movie
Maybe she'll be in a song, yeah
Better pay her some attention
Before she's gone

She's an underdog, yeah
She means the world to me, yeah

Everyone sees her but nobody knows her
She screams in her pillow for a better tomorrow
She hates it but she makes it
Watch out for that girl
One day she may change the world

Everyone sees her but nobody knows her
She screams in her pillow for a better tomorrow
She hates it but she makes it
Watch out for that girl
One day she may change the world


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Underdog Lyrics as written by Nicholas Jonas Mikkel Eriksen

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    underdog will not be on their new cd.

    they did do a revised version of it at a few shows. but it's not going to be on the new album.

    nicholieon July 21, 2008   Link

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