Pretty Girls and Light ft. Joshua Villa & Elizabeth Teeter Lyrics

Imagine a ballroom

Filled with pretty girls and light

They're dancing to music

Like the kind we played tonight

And they're dressed in lace and linen

Their eyes like little lemons

With soft and satin hair

When I imagine that ballroom

I'm not even there

What could that mean?

That I don't fit in my own daydream?

Maybe if I was taller

Somehow thinner, somehow stronger

I'm not sure how others fold to fit

I could be that pretty daughter

Fill that glass like water

And smile and shine like I'm in control of it

When really I would like to rip

This weight, this face from off my skin

To bleed

Instead of blush

To breathe

Only when she must

Never wanted to be pretty

Til I learned that's what a daughter does

Never thought that I was ugly

Til some dumb kid said I was

And now I feel I can't get out

Of these eyes, these ears, this nose, this mouth

What I would give to go without

Or have a face that others daydream about

I swear there's no in-between

Either you're beautiful

Or you're never seen

Imagine a bedroom

Two girls sitting on the floor

One of them a shadow

The other wishing she could fade the way her friend appeared before

Grace, you don't mean that

I think that I do. I am so sick of all of this

Stop it. You just need to breathe and give yourself a break

To bleed / Imagine a ballroom

Instead of blush / Filled with pretty girls and light

To breathe / Look within, there's light and there's music there

Only when she must / Under your skin

Oh to be / Cuz Grace you're

Beautiful

To blush instead of bleed

Either you're beautiful

Or you're never seen