pretty isn't pretty

[Intro]
D  G  Bm  A
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
Bought a new prescription
   Bm             A
To try and stay calm
               D                    G
'Cause there's always something missin'
               Bm                             A
There's always something 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 anyways
 
 
[Verse 2]
D                  G
You can win the battle
Bm                       A
But you'll never win the war
D                    G
Fix the things you hated
          Bm                A
And you'd still feel so insecure
      Em                    Bm/F#
And I try to ignore it, but it's everything I see
            G                                A
It's on the posters on the wall, it's in the shitty magazines
           Em                                  Bm/F#
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 and 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                          Bm/F#
And I bought all the clothes that they told me to buy
         G                  A
I chased some dumb ideal my whole fucking life
    Em                     Bm/F#
And none of it matters and none of it ends
         Em                      A       D G Bm
You just feel like shit over and over again
    A
No, it'll never change
 
 
[Outro]
D            G             Bm  A
Pretty isn't pretty enough
D           G           Bm  A
Everybody's keepin' it up
D            G            Bm  A
Pretty isn't pretty enough