[00:01.770]Miss Third Ward, your first question
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[00:06.140]What is your aspiration in life?
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[00:09.500]Oh, my aspiration in life
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[00:13.370]Would be to be happy
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[00:34.490]Mama said, you're a pretty girl
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[00:38.290]What's in your head, it doesn't matter
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[00:41.910]Brush your hair, fix your teeth
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[00:45.840]What you wear is all that matters
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[00:49.530]Just another stage, pageant the pain away
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[00:56.630]This time I'm gonna take the crown
[01:00.070]Without falling down, down
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[01:04.810]Pretty hurts, shine the light on whatever's worse
[01:09.990]
[01:11.180]Perfection is a disease of a nation, pretty hurts, pretty hurts
[01:17.860]Pretty hurts, shine the light on whatever's worse
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[01:25.840]Trying to fix something but you can't fix what you can't see
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[01:30.710]It's the soul that needs the surgery
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[01:37.130]Blonder hair, flat chest
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[01:40.880]TV says bigger is better
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[01:44.500]South beach, sugar free
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[01:48.680]Vogue says thinner is better
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[01:51.930]Just another stage
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[01:55.670]Pageant the pain away
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[01:59.410]This time I'm gonna take the crown
[02:02.850]Without falling down, down, down
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[02:06.780]Pretty hurts, shine the light on whatever's worse
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[02:14.070]Perfection is a disease of a nation, pretty hurts, pretty hurts (Pretty hurts)
[02:20.880]Pretty hurts (pretty hurts), shine the light on whatever's worse
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[02:28.620]Trying to fix something but you can't fix what you can't see
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[02:33.170]It's the soul that needs the surgery
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[02:35.910]Ain't got no doctor, no computer can take the pain away
[02:39.470]The pain's inside and nobody frees you from your body
[02:43.090]It's the soul, it's the soul that needs surgery
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[02:46.840]It's my soul that needs surgery
[02:49.840]
[02:50.960]Plastic smiles and denial can only take you so far
[02:54.330]And you break when the paper sign leaves you in the dark
[02:58.010]You left a shattered mirror and the shards of a beautiful girl
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[03:05.430]Pretty hurts, shine the light on whatever's worse (pretty hurts)
[03:13.170]Perfection is a disease of a nation, pretty hurts, pretty hurts
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[03:20.160]Pretty hurts, shine the light on whatever's worse
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[03:27.580]Trying to fix something but you can't fix what you can't see
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[03:32.200]It's the soul that needs the surgery
[03:33.820]When you're alone all by yourself
[03:36.570]And you're lying in your bed
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[03:40.500]Reflection stares right into you
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[03:44.300]Are you happy with yourself
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[03:48.230]It's just a way to masquerade
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[03:51.730]The illusion that's been shed
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[03:55.350]Are you happy with yourself?
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[03:59.530]Are you happy with yourself?, yes