Intro (x2): D G Bm A

Verse 1:
D                       G
Bought a bunch of makeup
Bm                A
Tryna cover up my face
D                 G
I started to skip lunch
        Bm                  A
Stopped eatin' cake on birthdays
  D                         G
I bought a new prescription
   Bm                A
To try and stay calm
               D                        G
'Cause there's always somethin' missin'
               Bm                             A
There's always somethin' in the mirror that I think looks wrong

Chorus:
     D            G             Bm
When pretty isn't pretty enough
            A
What do you do?
    D           G             Bm
And everybody's keepin' it up
                  A
So you think it's you
        D                      G
I could change up my body, and change up my face
        Bm                 A           D
I could try every lipstick in every shade
               G
But I'd always feel the same
       Bm           A                D   G Bm A
'Cause pretty isn't pretty enough anyway

Verse 2:
D                      G
You can win the battle
Bm                       A
But you'll never win the war
    D                        G
You fix thе things you hated
          Bm                A
And you'd still feel so insecure
      Em                         D
And I try to ignorе it, but it's everything I see
            G                               A
It's on the poster on the wall, it's in the xxxxxx magazines
           Em                                  D
It's in my phone, it's in my head, it's in the boys I bring to bed
          G                                      A
It's all around, it's all the time, I don't know why I even try

Chorus:
     D            G             Bm
When pretty isn't pretty enough
            A
What do you do?
    D           G             Bm
And everybody's keepin' it up
                  A
So you think it's you
        D                      G
I could change up my body, and change up my face
        Bm                 A           D
I could try every lipstick in every shade
               G
But I'd always feel the same
       Bm           A
'Cause pretty isn't pretty enough

Bridge:
      Em                               D
And I bought all the clothes that they told me to buy
         G                  A
I chased some dumb ideal my whole xxxxxxx life
    Em                      D
And none of it matters, and none of it ends
         G                       A     D   G Bm
You just feel like xxxx over and over again

Outro:
A
No, it'll never change
D            G             Bm A
Pretty isn't pretty enough
D    G                   Bm   A
Everybody's keepin' it up, oh
D            G             Bm A
Pretty isn't pretty enough
D
Pretty isn't
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