Olivia Rodrigo
pretty isn’t pretty lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2023
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:20
Bought a bunch of makeup, tryna cover up my face
I started to skip lunch, stopped eating cake on birthdays
Bought a new prescription to try and stay calm
'Cause there's always something missing
There's always something in the mirror that I think looks wrong
When pretty isn't pretty enough, what do you do?
And everybody's keeping it up, so you think it's you
I could change up my body and change up my face
I could try every lipstick in every shade
But I'd always feel the same
'Cause pretty isn't pretty enough anyway
You can win the battle, but you'll never win the war
You fix the things you hated, and you'd still feel so insecure
And I try to ignore it, but it's everything I see
It's on the poster on the wall, it's in the shitty magazines
It's in my phone, it's in my head, it's in the boys I bring to bed
It's all around, it's all the time, I don't know why I even try
When pretty isn't pretty enough, what do you do?
And everybody's keeping it up, so you think it's you
I could change up my body and change up my face
I could try every lipstick in every shade
But I'd always feel the same
'Cause pretty isn't pretty enough
And I bought all the clothes that they told me to buy
I chased some dumb ideal my whole fucking life
And none of it matters, and none of it ends
You just feel like shit over and over again
No, it'll never change
Pretty isn't pretty enough, mm
Everybody's keeping it up, oh
Pretty isn't pretty enough
Pretty isn't-
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Key vocabulary
- dumb
- not intelligentC1
- everybody's
- belonging to everyoneA1
- feel
- have an emotionA1
- it's
- it isA1
- know
- have understandingA1
- looks
- appears; face shapeA1
- lunch
- midday mealA1
- never
- not at any timeA1
- pretty
- attractiveA1
- something
- an unknown objectA1
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About this song
Olivia Rodrigo is an American pop singer and songwriter. She is known for emotionally driven alt-pop albums SOUR (2021) and GUTS (2023), including the break-up breakthrough “drivers license.”