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