Pretty Isn't Pretty
Pretty Isn't Pretty
Capo 2
Chords Needed:
C Am F (or Fsus2) G (or Gsus4)
Strumming:
DD UU DU
Intro:
C F Am G (x2)
Verse 1:
C F
Bought a bunch of makeup
Am G
Tryna cover up my face
C F
I started to skip lunch
Am G
Stopped eatin' cake on birthdays
C F
I bought a new prescription
Am G
To try and stay calm
C F
'Cause there's always somethin' missin'
Am G
There's always somethin' in the mirror that I think looks wrong
Chorus:
C F Am
When pretty isn't pretty enough
G
What do you do?
C F Am
And everybody's keepin' it up
G
So you think it's you
C F
I could change up my body, and change up my face
Am G C
I could try every lipstick in every shade
F
But I'd always feel the same
Am G C F Am G
'Cause pretty isn't pretty enough anyway
Verse 2:
C F
You can win the battle
Am G
But you'll never win the war
C F
You fix thе things you hated
Am G
And you'd still feel so insecure
Dm C
And I try to ignorе it, but it's everything I see
F G
It's on the poster on the wall, it's in the shitty magazines
Dm C
It's in my phone, it's in my head, it's in the boys I bring to bed
F G
It's all around, it's all the time, I don't know why I even try
Chorus:
C F Am
When pretty isn't pretty enough
G
What do you do?
C F Am
And everybody's keepin' it up
G
So you think it's you
C F
I could change up my body, and change up my face
Am G C
I could try every lipstick in every shade
F
But I'd always feel the same
Am G
'Cause pretty isn't pretty enough
Bridge:
Dm C
And I bought all the clothes that they told me to buy
F G
I chased some dumb ideal my whole fucking life
Dm C
And none of it matters, and none of it ends
F G C F Am
You just feel like shit over and over again
Outro:
G
No, it'll never change
C F Am G
Pretty isn't pretty enough
C F Am G
Everybody's keepin' it up, oh
C F Am G
Pretty isn't pretty enough
C
Pretty isn't
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