Alexipharmic - Beauty lyrics

rate me

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls

You are jewels more precious than diamonds and pearls

And anyone who tells you otherwise is doin it to compromise

Their broken lives by telling lies to keep you down from flyin high

Up into the skies, to hell with their opinion

Calculated ignorance is blurrin their vision

Decisions made by fools, put yourself in their position

With the knowledge it's their mission to keep you locked in prison

Realize real beauty lies inside of the soul

And real eyes know that's the only place to go

And the real lies told by the ones who sold your soul

I you're beautiful (you're beautiful) you're beautiful (you're beautiful)

Ladies and Gentlemen, silicone or plastic

Flesh and bone are driven out by measures that are drastic

As age takes it's toll it's our goal to attack it

Flaws and imperfections? Shiiiiiit, burn em off or mask it

Ask yourself why we're putting on facades

Like Ali said we're fingerprints of God

Not flawed, just different, that's to be embraced

The future arrives and we've all got the same face

Cause it's in our nature to want to keep pace

With goals and desires of the whole human race

The thing of it is every single course is different

We're showin our kids it's not OK to be different

When daddy gets a paid-for-tan and mommy gets her breast implants

Just to achieve definitions we don't understand

Cause there isn't one, surgery's not the evil

It's the defining of beauty for other people

And the never-ending effort to accept what we're told

That what others say is the truth imposed

Expose holes in the logic of trying to conform to

Status quo complexions so everyone ignores you

No matter your efforts, there'll be those that abhor you

For breakin out the pack, leavin them to be scorned, too

Sheep that's black: the one that saves

The masses from the wolves cloaked in wools that are gray

Ladies and Gentlemen, stand and be proud

If you're hearin this sound, it means you've gotten up

Every time you've gotten knocked down, what was lost is now found

So-leave the skeletons and burn em to the ground

And raise a fist up you're here in the present

We're experts on our own lives, fuck all the skeptics

The message is this: we need to not place

Such weight on our weight and such hate on our face

Cause misplaced blame is the root of the problem

Measures that we take, our efforts to solve em

But understand this: conceptions of beauty

That are dictated by the magazines and movies

Change with the times and the minds of the media

Controlled by us, we're the people deceivin ya

Get you to believe what you need is to conform

Bleed to cover-up deviations from the norm

Enough-it's time to fight back

Against a system that's built upon leaving you trapped

And how we manage that is stand and turn it off

It's a personal commitment to get this shit to stop

No matter how hard we try, things will stay the same

Unless we recognize our own self is to blame

And realize in the end, nothing will change

Unless beauty's redefined as a fire with flames