Welcome Inside My Head · Track 08

Both Things Can Be True

Caitlin Beadles4:36Out now

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Lyrics

Verse 1

Everybody thinks I’m fearless when I walk into a room,

Like I never second guess myself the way they do.

You’d think a girl who’s always laughing, always making everybody smile,

Wouldn’t cry in her driveway before walking in sometimes.

They see the pictures, all the places that I’ve been,

But they don’t see the war I fight beneath my skin.

They think confidence comes easy, like I woke up this way,

Like I don’t rehearse conversations twenty times a day.

You’d think I never get nervous,

You’d think I never get scared.

You’d think I always know exactly who I am,

But the truth is—

Some days I feel ten feet tall,

Some days I disappear.

Pre-Chorus

Maybe that’s the hardest part,

Being known for being strong,

When nobody sees the reasons

You had to be all along.

Chorus

’Cause I’m confident and insecure sometimes,

The life of the party, then I hide all night.

I’m the girl who’ll jump without looking down,

Then overthink every little thing I said out loud.

I’m strong enough to carry everybody else’s weight,

But sensitive enough to break from one thing they say.

I’m funny till I’m crying, loud until I disappear.

I’m both things at the same time standing here.

Maybe both things can be true.

Verse 2

Some days I feel bigger than my fear,

Some days I need somebody just to tell me I’m okay here.

I can lead the conversation all night long,

Then spend the drive home wondering if I did something wrong.

I know I look fearless from the outside,

But courage isn’t never being terrified.

It’s showing up anyway and letting people see

All the messy contradictions inside of me.

Pre-Chorus

Maybe I’m not hard to understand,

Maybe I’m just human.

Chorus

’Cause I’m confident and insecure sometimes,

The life of the party, then I hide all night.

I’m the girl who’ll jump without looking down,

Then overthink every little thing I said out loud.

I’m strong enough to carry everybody else’s weight,

But sensitive enough to break from one thing they say.

I’m funny till I’m crying, loud until I disappear.

I’m both things at the same time standing here.

Maybe both things can be true.

Bridge

I spent so long trying to pick a side.

Am I brave or am I terrified?

Am I healed or still hurting?

Am I glowing or still searching?

Then it hit me like a wave rolling through—

Maybe strength doesn’t mean choosing.

Maybe I’m all of it.

Maybe that’s the truth.

Final Chorus

I’m confident and insecure sometimes,

The center of attention, then I need to hide.

I’m strong enough to survive what should’ve broken me,

And sensitive enough to still feel everything.

I’m funny till I’m crying, loud until I’m quiet.

Still learning I don’t have to apologize for either.

I’m not one thing, never was, never will be.

I’m a thousand different versions,

And they’re all still me.

Yeah, both things can be true.

Both things can be true.

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Both Things Can Be True

Some days I feel ten feet tall,
some days I disappear.

Courage isn’t never being terrified—
it’s showing up anyway.

I’m a thousand different versions,
and they’re all still me.

Maybe both things can be true. ♡

Behind the song

The story inside it

“Maybe strength doesn’t mean choosing. Maybe I’m all of it.”

I wrote Both Things Can Be True for the space between who people think I am and everything I feel when no one is watching. Someone can look fearless walking into a room and still cry in the driveway first. She can make everyone laugh and still replay every word she said on the drive home.

For a long time, I thought I had to choose one version of myself: confident or insecure, brave or terrified, healed or hurting. The song lets those opposites sit beside each other. Courage is not the absence of fear. Sometimes it is simply showing up while fear is still there.

The bridge is where the pressure to choose finally falls away. Strength and sensitivity do not cancel each other out; they belong to the same whole person. I do not have to apologize for being loud and quiet, glowing and searching, strong and soft. I am a thousand different versions—and they are all still me.

— Caitlin

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