Not Pretty

Why am I not pretty
And it’s a chorus, are you singing it with me
As they make up the foundation
To sell us one side of an equation
Seventeen to twenty four
Til they don’t want you anymore
And I fell into the sway
But it’s not what I thought, okay
As I was labelled beautiful and sexy
Til I gained weight and then it’s like, next, we
Don’t have time
To be the victims of your favourite crime
And you’re just jealous coz they don’t see
The same thing when they’re looking at me
And is it some kind of superficial
To be so contrived in the official
Way they tow the line
Because I feel fine
The way I am
Have no ambition to Uncle Sam
My way into the American dream
And be a supernova queen
On the cover of a magazine
I just want to scream
That everything just fades and falls
And all the walls
I thought I had up
Just drop away in this love
As someone somewhere says I look like the sky
And the days I wanted to die
Are long gone
But that song
Still sings on repeat
Don’t judge someone
Til you’ve felt their heartbeat

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