Games

Jamie Grace names a specific pattern of exclusion rather than describing meanness in general in "Games" — "what's the deal with girls? We're friends until we're not... you can't sit with us, you're not cool enough." The scenario is kept concrete and recognizable rather than vague.

"I remember 6th grade, same table every day, nobody sits beside me, but now they love to hear me sing" keeps the memory specific and personal, admitting that acceptance came later and for a particular reason, not automatically. "Your words might hurt more than you could ever think, when the wound's so deep we act just to heal it, but act on who you are not how you're feeling" names cruelty as a coping mechanism without excusing it.

"Beautiful, the way you are, wonderful, even with your scars, lovely, every little bit, no matter what you think, it is what it is" closes the song by naming worth as already settled, independent of whatever verdict the "games" earlier in the song tried to hand down.