Girl Can't Be Herself

Lyrics

When a girl can't be herself no more
 I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world
 When a girl can't be herself no more
 I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world
 In the morning from the minute that I wake up
 What if I don't want to put on all that make up?
 Who says I must conceal what I'm made of?
 Maybe all this Maybelline is covering my self-esteem
 Whose job is it to straighten out my curves?
 I'm so tired of that image, that's my word
 What if today I don't feel like putting heels on?
 Who are you to criticize when beauty's only in the eyes...
 Of the beholder, so behold her
 Sing, sing, sing, why, oh, oh, oh, why, oh?
 When a girl can't be herself no more
 I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world
 When a girl can't be herself no more
 I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world
 Uh, uh, I'm so secure with insecurities
 Why is being unique such an impurity?
 Why are the numbers on the scale like a God to me?
 All of these indifferences are based on our appearances
 We please to be appeased
 The truest pleasure is the fact that we can breathe
 Think it into existence, do it, then achieve
 A fairy tale reality, beauty was with a beast
 Uh, uh, uh, you're the image of my reflection
 Ah, ah, ah, I'm the image of my reflection
 Sing, sing, sing, why, oh, oh, oh, why, oh?
 When a girl can't be herself no more
 I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world
 When a girl can't be herself no more
 I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world
 

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Song Details

Duration
02:39
Key
7
Tempo
89 BPM

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