beauty contest
(g. stefani, t. kanal)
from the recording of return of saturn

damsel in distress is quite submissive
look how somber my vanity is
a famine, a human creature
superficial seducing detour
i'm going to the mall for the cookie cutter
the ugly duckling will always suffer
contaminated standards, don’t try to fight it
i better get back on my diet

obsessed with a beauty contest
beauty contest
how my vanity is such a mess
beauty contest
i'm obsessed

reduce myself or cut the strict restrictions
not sexy enough without the regulations
i mold and pull, I can’t fit my fading features
born to blossom and bloom to perish

obsessed with a beauty contest
beauty contest
oh, i've got to get out of this mess
beauty contest
i'm obsessed

and i've fallen, i can't help myself
i’m feeling envious of all the rest
your bringing out the lemming in me
a victim of the cattle-call disease
not easy to be me

i feel swollen

obsessed with a beauty contest
beauty contest
how my vanity is such a mess
obsessed with a beauty contest

obsessed with a beauty contest
beauty contest
i’ve got to get out of this mess
obsessed with a beauty contest

obsessed with a beauty contest
beauty contest
how my vanity is such a mess
caught in the beauty contest
caught in the beauty contest
caught in the beauty contest
caught in the beauty contest
caught in the beauty contest

and i feel swollen
how my vanity is such a mess

my vanity's a mess.

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