Beautiful (GT Version)

This is me They say he's so ugly He couldn't be No part of me Damn Now what if she With her beauty Saw it in me No it couldn't be Damn Now this is me They say he's so ugly He couldn't be No part of me Damn Now what if she With her beauty Saw it in me No it couldn't be Or can it She worded it so perfect, my heart started hurting For the moment she decides that I ain't the same person She met in my music I'm used to losing em all When you told me stand tall, I just started to fall What started it all? we could go back Growing up I was too light to be Black, short and hella fat Didn't have no friends and just grew to accept that Spoke with an accent from a tongue that I never mastered Cutting class, headphones blasting "Ghetto Bastard" Way back then, when my best friend was Treach Plus hella other rappers that I also never met My medicine then and it never questioned what I look like Just gave enough fuel for me to put up a good fight I started writing, rocking mics, life got exciting But I never got to heal from all that time that I'd been hiding Until now and I'm still hiding, tryna fight any affection Under layers of protection Any smile in my direction gets ex-ed before it starts And we can only be friends, said we can only be friends You loving me has to end I am just too poisonous And you are just too beautiful for words Why don't you tell me the truth Too beautiful for words Why don't you tell me the truth This is for the ones that want love but are scared to Cuz all the love they ever knew came with abuse Stay beautiful y'all You don't deserve what they did And I believe you and me we can change this ish This is for the ones that want love but are scared to Cuz all the love they ever knew came with abuse Stay beautiful y'all You don't deserve what they did And I believe you and me we can change this ish My wings flame like Icarus Sink like every relationship Bridges burn, hearts break, all from staying ashamed And hating my shell Fear of not being accepted for being myself By nobody else, a self-induced hell Keep telling myself, don't feel weak But game-peep It ain't weak to be vulnerable That's like the deepest strength that I've ever seen Sure as I ever dream It's forcing me to trust she Coming from love We uncovered our scars buried She could of crush what she nurtured And what I thought I had murdered had new life My new sights finding beauty inside this fool I ran from my whole life Until I claimed this beauty with my own sight I couldn't walk with this warrior by my side Even when our lifelines don't want to intertwine I'll take the best in lessons as a blessing and invest em For all my relations Ain't no magazine beauty in the world ever moved me More then thick-hipped, chocolate skin and lips luscious Winds move to touch us We deep soul survivors Redefining beauty with every breath I'm a rider, no longer in denial This is for the ones that want love but are scared to Cuz all the love they ever knew came with abuse Stay beautiful y'all You don't deserve what they did And I believe you and me we can change this ish This is for the ones that want love but are scared to Cuz all the love they ever knew came with abuse Stay beautiful y'all You don't deserve what they did And I believe you and me we can change this ish This is for the children Beautiful and brilliant Take your vision back from this wicked-ass system Beautiful and brilliant You are not a victim Take your vision back from this wicked-ass system Black, beautiful and brilliant This is for the children Take your vision back from this wicked-ass system Young, beautiful and brilliant You are not a victim Take your vision back from this wicked-ass system