A Coming Out Story Chords by Calum Scott

[Gm] _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Gm] The beautiful thing about [Eb] childhood [Bb] is that for those first few years you move [Gm] through the world just as you are
[Eb] without [Bb] questioning who you should be.
[Gm] I look back and [Eb] remember being a child the way that [Bb] probably most people do, full of laughter and [Gm] innocence.
_ [Eb] _ [Bb] But I also remember myself as a kid who learned at [Gm] a young age that love [Eb] also meant loneliness [Bb] and confusion.
_ [Cm] _
[Bb] I found friends who made me feel part of [Eb] something and it made me confident and it made me feel [Cm] normal.
But then [Bb] when my friends started to care about having [F] girlfriends, I really didn't.
[Gm] I would literally sit and [Eb] think, what's wrong with me?
[Bb] Why can't I be normal like everyone else?
[Gm]
I locked [Eb] those sort of questions deep inside me [Bb] for years and I knew that I couldn't ask them out [Gm] loud.
[Eb] And I just had to learn to live with [Bb] the sleepless nights and [F] that constant knot in my [Gm] stomach.
_ [Eb] The [Bb] very first person that I told was my [F] best friend [Bb] and all I remember him saying [Eb] was,
are you trying to tell me you're [Bb] gay?
And I watched him tell everybody [Gm] else in my group, one by one.
[Eb] And [Bb] I felt my heart break because I knew none of them [Gm] would ever speak to me again.
[Eb] _ _ [Bb] It's painful to watch people walk away from [Gm] you as if you've done something wrong.
[Eb] And to me it felt like punishment [Bb] for something that I couldn't control and didn't even really understand [Gm] myself.
_ [Eb] Dad, [Bb] Callum.
_ _ [Cm] Telling my mum was [Bb] probably one [Eb] of the most terrifying things I've ever done in my life.
But her reaction [Bb] was just magical.
[F] _ Callum, I love you no matter what.
[Gm] _
[Eb] I could not ask [Bb] for any more from her.
But even with that, even with [Gm] the power of that,
[Eb] nothing would have undone the trauma [Bb] that came with seeing my friends completely abandon me and walk away from [Gm] me.
So I [Eb] continued to suppress my sexuality.
[Bb] I dreaded conversations [A] about girlfriends [Gm] and relationships in [Eb] general.
And I learned to [Bb] avoid it.
_ I was so [Eb] used to hiding.
But when [Bb] I auditioned for Britain's [Eb] Got Talent, the doors of my life opened to [Bb] the world.
[Eb]
And even though [F] my dreams were coming true, I was [Gm] terrified that showing the world [F] who I truly [Dm] was
would [Cm] mean seeing people walk [Bb] away from me all over again.
[Eb] _ _ _ I found the courage to be honest.
And I found that courage through [Gm] music.
[Eb] I found answers to [Bb] questions that I was too afraid to ask.
And also the [Gm] courage to tell my story.
[Eb] _
[Bb] I know that there are people, [F] young and old, [Gm] still struggling with the same [Eb] questions.
And living [Bb] with that relentless [F] fear, the trauma, [Gm] the heartbreak.
_ [Eb] _
I make the [Bb] music that I do because [F] I desperately [Gm] want to inspire [Eb] the right kind of [Bb] conversations.
I think that's what we're missing.
[F] _ [Bb] If one less [Eb] kid can grow up without [Bb] having to hide who they are along the way,
or [F] without having [Gm] to believe that who they love is [Eb] something that will make them lonely,
[Bb] then everything I went through will have been worth it. _ _ _