True Beauty


I got a request from one of my dearest and most faithful friends, Carol Maddon, to post this song. So, here is True Beauty.

 

Toby Petrie and I were in the height of our songwriting productivity and I remember this one came fairly quickly and easily to us. Toby, of course, wrote the music, and I, the lyrics.

 

I’ve come a long way in my understanding of what it means to be beautiful since writing this song, and have gained a pretty strong sense of confidence in who I am, but as I listen to the lyrics in 2018, I am mindful that while we are more enlightened about our sense of what makes for a woman’s worth, there are still far too many young women and girls doing drugs and starving themselves to be thin, and far too many of my generation going under the knife in the ever futile attempt to recapture our lost youth. We are still being judged by appearance alone, and we fear we just don’t measure up to the magazine covers.

 

I put this video together several years ago and watching it today, I am astonished once again at the passing of time. Two women in the video are no longer living, including my mother. Some of the young girls are off to college, some are married with daughters of their own. This life really is ephemeral, but true beauty, that unmistakable light shining in each us, lives on.

 

True Beauty
@ Kay Bess and Toby Petrie

 

I aspire for acceptance
in an artificial world
I search in stacks of magazines
And wish I was the cover girl

 

As if somehow my happiness
lies in what I wear
In the perfect shade of shadow
In straight or waving hair

 

True Beauty
True Beauty
Waiting here inside of me
True Beauty
True Beauty
Waiting to be free

 

I’m the judge of my own body
My sentence is so cruel
I set myself against myself
A never-ending duel

 

Every day another struggle
As the mirror stares at me
How do I look beyond the image?
When will I see?

 

True Beauty
True Beauty
Waiting here inside of me
True Beauty
True Beauty
Waiting to be free

 

All that glitters, All that’s gold
Leaves me lifeless, Leaves me cold
Holy wisdom, Touch my eyes
One day I will realize

 

True Beauty
True Beauty
Waiting here inside of me
True Beauty
True Beauty
Finally free

 


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