Makes You Pretty

It starts when you're thirteen, looking at a magazine

Flawless faces

Then you're touching up your photos

Spending too much on your clothes

Endless chasin'

You think it's your hair if it's done just right

Or if you lose five pounds by Friday night

But it's the lines on your face when you laugh and the way

That you get back up at the end of the day

It's the tears that you cry

It's the strength that you find

On the bathroom floor in the middle of the night

Sometimes it ain't pretty

But that's what makes you pretty, girl

When you're sending up a prayer

No one's caring what you wear

Your heart's wide open

Calling up an old friend, asking wondering how they been

You start glowing

No mascara, lights up your eyes

No gloss on your lips can make you shine

Like the lines on your face when you laugh and the way

That you get back up at the end of the day

It's the tears that you cry

It's the strength that you find

On the bathroom floor in the middle of the night

Sometimes it ain't pretty

But that's what makes you pretty, girl

Oh

Pretty girl, oh

It's the grace and the grit

It's the walls that you hit

When you're running full speed to a dream, don't quit

The lines on your face when you laugh and the way

That you get back up at the end of the day

It's the tears that you cry

It's the strength that you find

On the bathroom floor in the middle of the night

Sometimes it ain't pretty

But that's what makes you pretty, girl