Girl Can't Be Herself Lyrics - Alicia Keys

When a girl can't be herself no more 

I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world 

When a girl can't be herself no more 

I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world 

In the morning from the minute that I wake up 

What if I don't want to put on all that make up? 

Who says I must conceal what I'm made of? 

Maybe all this Maybelline is covering my self-esteem 

Whose job is it to straighten out my curves? 

I'm so tired of that image, that's my word 

What if today I don't feel like putting heels on? 

Who are you to criticize when beauty's only in the eyes... 

Of the beholder, so behold her 

Sing, sing, sing, why, oh, oh, oh, why, oh? 

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When a girl can't be herself no more 

I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world 

When a girl can't be herself no more 

I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world 

Uh, uh, I'm so secure with insecurities 

Why is being unique such an impurity? 

Why are the numbers on the scale like a God to me? 

All of these indifferences are based on our appearances 

We please to be appeased 

The truest pleasure is the fact that we can breathe 

Think it into existence, do it, then achieve 

A fairy tale reality, beauty was with a beast 

Uh, uh, uh, you're the image of my reflection 

Ah, ah, ah, I'm the image of my reflection 

Sing, sing, sing, why, oh, oh, oh, why, oh? 

When a girl can't be herself no more 

I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world 

When a girl can't be herself no more 

I just wanna cry, I just wanna cry for the world