Mama, mama, mama made me the way I am My face, my eyes, someone turn me up, I'm speaking my mind And I, and I, I've been wasting a lot of time Looking in mirrors and hating on me, but now I like what I see I know, I know I'll never be perfect I know, I know But I'm gonna work it Let go, let go Put your new shoes on, the new you on We are who we are, who we are Pretty's just a pretty word And I'm gonna shine like a star 'Cause I'm the only me in this world Throw away the books and the magazines I'm never gonna look like a beauty queen We are who we are, who we are And I'm just doing me, just doing me And I'm just doing me, just doing me Mama, mama, mama made me the way I am She told me I should look up on the world with my head held high And I, and I, I've been wasting a lot of time Looking in mirrors and hating on me, but now I like what I see I know, I know I'll never be perfect I know, I know But I'm gonna work it Let go, let go Put your new shoes on, the new you on We are who we are, who we are Pretty's just a pretty word And I'm gonna shine like a star 'Cause I'm the only me in this world Throw away the books and the magazines I'm never gonna look like a beauty queen We are who we are, who we are And I'm just doing me, just doing me And I'm just doing me, just doing me I know, I know I'll never be perfect I know, I know But I'm gonna work it Let go, let go Put your new shoes on, the new you on We are who we are, who we are Pretty's just a pretty word And I'm gonna shine like a star 'Cause I'm the only me in this world Throw away the books and the magazines I'm never gonna look like a beauty queen We are who we are, who we are And I'm just doing me, just doing me And I'm just doing me, just doing me And I'm just doing me, just doing me And I'm just doing me, just doing me And I'm just doing me, just doing me

You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love Falling from you, drop by drop What I had left here I just held it tight So someone with your eyes Might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ, hold me like a knife We're born at night So much to the lives Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are It's who we are You and I burned out our steam Chasing someone else's dream How can somethin' be so much heavier But so much less than what it seems? Darling, we sacrificed We gave our time to somethin' undefined This phantom life sharpens like an image But it sharpens like a knife We're born at night So much of our life Is just carvin' through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are That's who we are You only feel it when it's lost Gettin' through still has its cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love Fallin' from you, drop by drop