Sometimes I look to the stars and wonder
Yeah I, begin to cry and I wonder
If they remember Karen Carpenter
They must think they’re God to take her thunder
How they took spirit and her fire
How they made her walk upon that wire
Feared falling from freedom, jumping too far
From those who tell us this is who you are
One of the greatest singers lost her voice
And life as they buried her soprano
Spitting on her grave as they made the choice
Broke down Britney and Demi Lovato
Play doctors but can’t diagnose your self
When the ones who are sick aren’t me, but you
You must look in that mirror and get help
Instead of me or stars we look up to
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The same people who say to love our self
Tell us we are nothing and hurt our health
Why do you want to keep us so thin?
Do you fear our strength, the women within?
So holding us down was all you could do
To keep us in your shadows, beneath you
Laughed at Mariah and then Christina
Said it was drugs or anorexia
And then it happened to Lady Gaga
As we the tabloids and magazines
And watch the video on TMZ
Saying her songs should be named Porker Face
And Papparazi need the wide lens out
So go on, yeah go ahead, tell those kids!
While we tell them that they are worthless
Not to become bullies, or be afraid
That they can become anything they want
When you don’t mean a damn thing that you say
The countless excuses for real writers
Make their money yet none will know their name
As woman after woman gets whiter,
Thinner, blonder, and are still put to shame
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So what becomes stronger, my loving me
Or my hating myself for what I see?
I will not starve myself or purge myself
Or worship your false image; hurt myself
Hate myself as I slowly kill myself
Won’t take those pills myself, or drink your shakes
To fit inside the mold of your dream weight
While you fill my head with your nightmares
Haunting my thoughts and killing my daydreams
Dreams to design my own line or to act
It’s been almost 20 years in this fight
Me against my body, darkness vs. light
But I will not surrender, will not kneel
Or take it as you say your lies are real
Now, the only time I bow is to pray
Not to porcelain or for what you say
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