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from GRASP 2013 by Bay Area Girls Rock Camp

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Keyboard: Scribbles
Bass: Susannah
Drums:Marilyn
Guitar: Yanaijah
Vocals: Marcela

lyrics

(intro)
Now let me tell you something society
about a young girl
willing to lose her life
to throw away everything
she had strived for
all because she felt ugly

They whispered in her ear
spread the poison to her soul
She was forever lost
nothing more than a zombie
A zombie praying, pleading and
begging god to let her be beautiful
because for every taunt and tease
the longer she would stay on her knees
until they were bleeding raw

Until the meat on her bones
could no longer thaw the frozen heart
that was slowly killing her
She had internalized her oppression and
believed in the misogynistic misinterpretation of beauty.
Now you tell me, can she be beautiful?

(Verse 1)
Sitting on the couch,
waiting for tomorrow and
fearing life itself
I am living, living life
within my head
Oh TV’s on, she comes on
5’7, her beauty is that of heaven
She is emaciated on the outside
starving on the inside
Oh where is her pride

(Chorus)
Beauty, such an easy word to say
Beauty, Am I beautiful
Oh beauty, what an easy word to say
Beauty, Am I beautiful

(Verse 2)
If I look in the mirror
what will I see?
A plastic Barbie with no feelings
Aren’t I just a human being,
why can’t society accept me?
Society just let me be me
Just me.

(Chorus)

(Rap/Breakdown)
I’m chubby and I am fine with that
Don’t need no regulations telling
me what I can or cannot do
that I’m too fat
I have a free and open mind
that I decide rather than
to waste my time and
focus on those photoshopped beauties
I have a duty to me
and my sisters
whether they be brown
black or any color to love me.

To know in the knee deep
of my gut that beauty lies deep
within the eye of the beholder
DaVinci did not paint the Mona Lisa
just so that society could critique her
She is a masterpiece but in society’s eyes
she looks like a catastrophe
having one too many
twinkies for dinner
Are you kidding me
I am not going to be starving
I wanna rise to the top
not plunge to the bottom
of that toilet seat
leaving behind everything
I have decided to eat

There is a reason digestion
occurs to nourish the mind, body, and soul.
Oh beauty

(Chorus)

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from GRASP 2013, released May 16, 2013

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Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Oakland, California

Bay Area Girls Rock Camp is a nonprofit dedicated to empowering girls through music, promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity and collaboration. It is a place where girls learn to play instruments, form bands, and write and perform their own music.
These songs were written by campers between the ages of 8 and 18 in just five days.
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