Beautiful Lyrics - Riverdale Cast

[VERONICA:] 

September 1st, 1989 

Dear Diary: 

I believe I'm a good person. You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but—here we are! First day of senior year! 

And uh... I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened? 

[KIDS:] 

Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-eyes! Poser! Lard-ass! 

[VERONICA:] 

We were so tiny, happy and shiny 

Playing tag and getting chased 

[KIDS:] 

Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus! 

[VERONICA:] 

Singing and clapping, laughing and napping 

Baking cookies, eating paste 

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[KIDS:] 

Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback! 

[VERONICA:] 

Then we got bigger, that was the trigger 

Like the Huns invading Rome 

Oh, Sorry! 

Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school: 

This is the Thunderdome 

Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon 

[KIDS:] 

White trash! 

[VERONICA:] 

College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June! 

But I know, I know, life can be beautiful 

I pray, I pray for a better way 

If we changed back then, we could change again 

We can be beautiful... 

[VERONICA:] 

Just not today 

Hey, are you okay? 

[HIPSTER DORK:] 

Get away, nerd 

[VERONICA:] 

Oh, okay 

[KIDS:] 

Freak! Slut! Cripple! Homo! Homo! Homo! 

[VERONICA:] 

Things will get better soon as my letter 

Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown 

Wake from this coma, take my diploma 

Then I can blow this town 

Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés 

[RAM:] 

Watch it! 

[VERONICA:] 

Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze! 

[RAM:] 

Ooooops 

[VERONICA:] 

Ram Sweeney. Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick 

[RAM:] 

What did you say to me, skank? 

[VERONICA:] 

Aah, nothing! 

[VERONICA:] But I know, I know... [KIDS:] I know, I know... 

[VERONICA:] Life can be beautiful [KIDS:] Beautiful 

[VERONICA:] I pray, I pray [KIDS:] I pray, I pray 

[VERONICA:] For a better way [KIDS:] For a better way 

[VERONICA:] We were kind before; [KIDS:] Oooh... 

[VERONICA:] We can be kind once more [KIDS:] Oooh... 

[VERONICA:] We can be beautiful... [KIDS:] Oooh... Beautiful... 

[VERONICA:] 

Agh!... Hey Martha 

[MARTHA:] 

Hey 

[VERONICA:] 

Martha Dunnstock. My best friend since diapers 

[MARTHA:] 

We on for movie night? 

[VERONICA:] 

Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail 

[MARTHA:] 

I rented "The Princess Bride." 

[VERONICA:] 

Ho-ho-ho, again? Wait, don't you have it memorized by now? 

[MARTHA:] 

What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending 

[KURT:] 

Martha Dumptruck! Wide load! Honnnnnk! 

[KURT:] 

Hahaaa! 

[VERONICA:] 

Kurt Kelly. Quarterback. He is the smartest guy on the football team. Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf 

[KURT:] 

Haha! Alriiight! 

[VERONICA:] 

Hey! Pick that up! Right now! 

[KURT:] 

I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me? 

[VERONICA:] 

Yes, I am. I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend. You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. A future gas station attendant 

[KURT:] 

...You have a zit right there... 

[VERONICA:] 

Dear diary: 

Why... 

[HIPSTER DORK:] 

Why do they hate me? 

[REPUBLICAN GIRL:] 

Why don't I fight back? 

[KURT:] 

Why do I act like such a creep? 

[VERONICA:] 

Why... 

[MARTHA:] 

Why won't he date me? 

[RAM:] 

Why did I hit him? 

[STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING & BLOW-DRIED PREPPY:] 

Why do I cry myself to sleep? 

[VERONICA:] 

Why... 

[KIDS:] 

Somebody hug me! 

Somebody fix me! 

Somebody save me! 

[KIDS & VERONICA:] 

Send me a sign, God! 

Give me some hope, here! 

Something to live for! 

[KIDS:] 

Ahh! Heather, Heather, and Heather! 

[VERONICA:] 

And then there's the Heathers. They float above it all 

[KIDS:] 

I love Heather, Heather, and Heather 

[VERONICA:] 

Heather McNamara, head cheerleader. Her dad is loaded—he sells engagement rings 

[KIDS:] 

I hate Heather, Heather, and Heather 

[VERONICA:] 

Heather Duke, runs the yearbook. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants 

[KIDS:] 

I want Heather, Heather, and Heather 

[VERONICA:] 

And Heather Chandler, the Almighty 

She is a mythic bitch 

[KIDS:] 

I need Heather, Heather... 

[VERONICA:] 

They're solid Teflon—never bothered, never harassed 

I would give anything to be like that 

[KIDS:] 

Mmmm... 

[HIPSTER DORK:] 

I'd like to be their boyfriend 

[KIDS:] 

That would be beautiful... 

Mmmm... 

[STONER CHICK:] 

If I sat at their table, guys would notice me 

[KIDS:] 

So beautiful... 

Ooooh... 

[MARTHA:] 

I'd like them to be nicer 

[KIDS:] 

That would be beautiful... 

Ooooh... 

[BELEAGUERED GEEK:] 

I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse and leave her tied up for the rats 

[HEATHER CHANDLER:] 

Grow up, Heather. Bulimia is so '87. 

[HEATHER MCNAMARA:] 

Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather 

[HEATHER DUKE:] 

Yeah, Heather. Maybe I should 

[MS. FLEMING:] 

Ah, Heather and Heather 

...and Heather. Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting. You're late for class 

[HEATHER CHANDLER:] 

Heather wasn't feeling well. We're helping her 

[MS. FLEMING:] 

Not without a hall pass, you're not. Week's detention 

[VERONICA:] 

Um, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. Yearbook committee 

[MS. FLEMING:] 

...I see you're all listed. Hurry up and get where you're going 

[HEATHER CHANDLER:] 

This is an excellent forgery. Who are you? 

[VERONICA:] 

Uh... Veronica Sawyer. I crave a boon 

[HEATHER CHANDLER:] 

What boon? 

[VERONICA:] 

Um. Let me sit at your table, at lunch. Just once. No talking necessary. If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone... 

Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips, and absence notes 

[HEATHER DUKE:] 

How about prescriptions? 

[HEATHER CHANDLER:] 

Shut up, Heather 

[HEATHER DUKE:] 

Sorry, Heather 

[HEATHER CHANDLER:] 

For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure 

[HEATHER MCNAMARA:] 

And a symmetrical face. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. That's very important 

[HEATHER DUKE:] 

Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds 

[HEATHER CHANDLER:] 

And ya know, ya know, ya know? 

This could be beautiful 

Mascara, maybe some lip gloss 

And we're on our way 

Get this girl some blush; 

And Heather, I need your brush 

Let's make her beautiful 

[HEATHER MCNAMARA:] 

Let's make her beautiful... 

[HEATHER DUKE:] 

Let's make her beautiful... 

[HEATHER CHANDLER:] 

Make her beautiful... 

Okay? 

[VERONICA:] 

Okay! 

[KURT:] 

Out of my way, geek! 

[BELEAGUERED GEEK:] 

I don't want trouble.. 

[RAM:] 

You're gonna die at 3pm! 

[REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL:] 

Don't you dare touch me! Get away, pervert! 

[BELEAGUERED GEEK:] 

What did I ever do to them? 

[KIDS:] 

Who could survive this? 

I can't escape this! 

I think I'm dying! 

[MS. FLEMING:] 

Who's that with Heather? 

[KIDS:] 

Whoa 

Heather, Heather, Heather... 

[NEW WAVE GIRL:] 

And someone! 

[KIDS:] 

Heather, Heather, Heather... 

[GOWAN & COACH:] 

And a babe! 

[KIDS:] 

Heather, Heather, Heather... 

[MARTHA:] 

Veronica?! 

[KIDS:] 

Veronica? Veronica? Veronica?! 

[VERONICA:] 

And you know, you know, you know 

Life can be beautiful ([KIDS:] Aaahhh! Beautiful!) 

You hope, you dream, you pray 

And you get your way! 

Ask me how it feels ([KIDS:] Beautiful!) 

Lookin' like hell on wheels... 

My God, it's beautiful!([KIDS:] Aaahhh! Beautiful!) 

I might be beautiful...([KIDS:] Beautiful!) 

And when you're beautiful... 

[VERONICA:] 

It's a beautiful frickin' day! 

[KIDS:] 

Heather! Heather! Heather! Veronica! 

Heather! Heather! Heather! Veronica! 

Veronica! Veronica! Veronica! 

Veronica!