The Beauty Game Lyrics & Tabs by Garnet Rogers
The Beauty Game
guitar chords lyrics
She stands before the mirror,
Selects a hat and tries it on for size.
She can't see the beauty looking back,
She only sees the lines around the eyes.
And the corners of her mouth turn down;
They tighten with self-consciousness and shame.
She takes off the hat and leaves the store,
Concedes another battle in the beauty game.
She's tried and failed to meet her mother's
Standards ever since she was a child
And the models she would like to be
Preach diet, self-loathing and denial.
And their legs are long and tawny,
Their eyes and lips and breasts all look the same.
They bear the marks of surgeons' knives
And their legs are long and tawny,
Their eyes and lips and breasts all look the same.
They bear the marks of surgeons' knives
And the deeper, hidden scarring of the beauty game.
She recalls the lies her mother taught her
When she was impressionable and young:
"Nice girls don't express themselves to get a man;
Play it safe and play it dumb."
Now her mother's old and bitter;
When she visits her she's sorry that she came:
A fading gentle tyrant,
One more walking wounded in the beauty game.
So she didn't get the hat she liked:
It didn't look as good as in the magazines.
Instead she phoned a friend up
To commiserate and talk about
What might have been.
"Why can't a man just love me for my humour
And my strength and my heart and brain?"
Worst of all, it's she who can't accept herself
And live outside the beauty game.
Worst of all, it's she who can't accept herself...
