Lyrics - Teenage Girls Self Image

BEAUTIFUL JESUS
Words & Music by Sara Beth Geoghegan

She looks in the mirror several times a day
And each time she's wishing that what she sees will change
And she blames God for making her that way
And now she's comparing to what she thinks the best
Her thoughts so consuming they leave her without rest
What a lovely mess
She lies down on the floor
She cannot take anymore

And she says beautiful Jesus
Make me look like you
Beautiful Jesus
I'm dying to be truly beautiful
Make me look like you

It's hardest at nighttime trying to fall asleep
Alone with her battles she's lying in her sheets
Will she never find peace?
And then in the morning the new day brings new fears
She looks in her closet and wants to disappear
And begs God to be near
The deceiver tries to deceive her
But the healer, oh He can heal her

And she says beautiful Jesus
Make me look like you
Beautiful Jesus
I'm dying to be truly beautiful
Make me look like you

Oh,
'Cause I've believed everything that this ugly world says about me

I'm dying to be truly beautiful
Make me look like you

Words & Music by Sara Beth Geoghegan
&cp[y; 2007 Universal Music Corp. / Cumberland Belle Music ASCAP All rights on behalf of Cumberland Belle Music controlled and administered by Universal Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

IN THE IMAGE OF GOD
Words & Music by Mandie Pinto & Steve Siler

As I look into the mirror
Give me eyes to see
Don't need to measure up to some ideal
I've reached for an illusion
Something that's not me
Help me now to value what is real
You are my creator
So why have I been afraid to be at home
in this temple that you made

In the image of God
You poured yourself into me
That ought to be enough
A beautiful reflection
of Heaven's perfect love
When I look at me
Give me eyes to see
The image of God

I never second guess you
I never doubt your hand
When I see the sunrise in the sky
So why is it I've questioned
And failed to understand
You chose the very color of my eyes
When I start to wonder
About what I would change
I need to stop
And remember I was made

CHORUS
Help me to remember
I don't have to earn your love
When I look at me
Give me eyes to see
The image of God

There's nothing left to chance
In your master plan
You made me just as I am

CHORUS

Words & Music by Mandie Pinto & Steve Siler
© 2001 ByHisGrace Music BMI / Word Music Inc. / Fifty States Music ASCAP

JUST THE WAY THAT I AM
Words & Music by Steve Siler

Made in love by your perfect hand
That's what I am
A reflection of your image
Meant to be a one of a kind
A special design
With nobody else like it
I don't have to change one hair on my head
'Cause I know you love me

Just the way that I am
Just the way I was made
A divine work of art in every way
Just the way that I am
Just the way I should be
I'm so glad
You made me just the way that I am

When I think I'm not good enough
Don't have the right stuff
That's the time I should be prayin'
'Cause it's when I'm closer to you
that I see the truth
and I know I'm gonna make it
I don't have to follow every trend
Cause my true friends will love me

CHORUS

You must've thought the world really needed me
'Cause in your perfect wisdom you created me

CHORUS

God I am so glad I'm the way that I am

© 2001 Word Music / Silerland Music

NO ONE CAN LOVE ME LIKE YOU DO
Words & Music by Wayne Tester & Steve Siler

Feeling like I'm drowning in
the ocean of my tears
I thought no one would want
my broken heart
But Jesus kept on reaching out
and calling me to faith
and somewhere deep
inside my soul
I heard him say

No one can love me like you do
Nobody else can take your place
Only your light shines that special way
No one can give me what you give
'cause nobody else walks in your shoes
After everything that you've been through
No one can love me like you do

Sometimes I'm defeated by
the doubts that shadow me
It's hard to let go of
these hopeless fears
But Jesus has a precious gift
he wants me to receive
and when I ask what I
can give to him
He says to me

CHORUS

He made himself a sacrifice
that I might have eternal life
So I'll just keep on saying to my Lord

CHORUS

© 2000 Testerfonics Music/ Disney Music Publishing / Word Music, Inc/ Fifty States Music

YOU LOVE ME
Words & Music by Scott Krippayne & Steve Siler

Advertisers sell me
and the TV tries to tell me
that my beauty's skin deep
I know that they're lying
So why do I keep on buying
What they want me to believe
There's another message
There's a better choice
Breaking through the madness
In a still small voice

You love me You love me
Just for being me
You love me You love me
Unconditionally
It's not about appearance
It's not about my style
No matter what the world is thinking of me
You love me

Surrounded by illusions
I slip into such confusion
that it's hard to see truth
Overwhelmed by questions
Lord I need to feel your presence
where there's nothing left to prove
When vision is betrayal
and darkness clouds my sight
I need to see the diamond
that sparkles in your eyes

CHORUS
I couldn't face the pressure if I had to stand alone
But every time I turn to you Lord, you let me know

CHORUS

Words & Music by Scott Krippayne & Steve Siler
© 2007 Word Music, Inc. ASCAP / Fifty States Music ASCAP / New Spring Music Publishing / Chips and Salsa Songs ASCAP

THE COST
Words & Music by Missi Hale & Steve Siler

I swallowed my anger
I choked down my pain
Took all of my feelings
and stuffed them away
I ate my words, I hid my heart
Did what I was told
'til it was me against the world
Oh, conflicted and alone
Then one day I realized
I didn't have to take it anymore

They can't make me eat if I don't want to
They can't make me keep it down
They can't live inside me
They can't deny me
Control
Oh, sweet control

Now we've got the power
Now we are in charge
We are the ones
that they can't pry apart
There's nothing wrong, why can't they see
Things are just the way that we want them to be
Oh, why are they so obsessed
with making life a restaurant?
and we're saying with our choice
"How's it feel to have no voice?"

You can't make us eat if we don't want to
Oh, you can't make us keep it down
You can't live inside us
You can't deny us
Control
Sweet
They can't make us eat if we don't want to
Oh, they can't make us keep it down
They can't live inside us
They can't deny us
Control

Am I hurting you?
Are you leaving me?
This is not the victory I thought that it would be
I'm so frightened
and confused
'Cause even as I'm winning
I lose

But they can't make me.....
No they can't make me....
What's this thing inside me
That's always fighting
for control, yeah
Demands control
What's the cost
of control?
Who's in control?
Does it really get me what I need?
Control

Words & Music by Missi Hale & Steve Siler
&coppy; 2007 Lissabug Music Publishing ASCAP / Silerland Music ASCAP (Administered by The Copyright Company)

SWEPT AWAY
Words & Music by Allie Lapointe

On the path to beautiful
I wandered from the truth
Found a stream of guarantees
I just could not refuse
Waded into the promise
That thin could set me free
Now I'm trapped and can't swim back
I'm sinking deep

This current rages
These waters roar
Beneath the surface
I'm losing a silent war
I'm going under
I can't escape
I fear I might be
swept away
Swept away

I don't remember falling
And no one pushed me in
All I know is I'm in the place
I said I'd never be again
Secrets have me spinning round
I'm losing all control
I never knew it'd be so hard
To resist the flow

CHORUS

The cover girls, all skin and bones
Cheer me on from the shore
I didn't know how far I'd go
To find what glitters isn't gold

CHORUS

Words & Music by Allie Lapointe
© 2007 Story City Music BMI

TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE
Words & Music by Allie Lapointe & Sara Beth Geoghegan

Take away the curves, the waves
The softness of my form
Straight lines, stick figure's what I'm going for
Just a little smaller and then a little smaller still
I chase the moving target
Running uphill
Lord I'm fading fast
All that I can do is ask...

Will you draw my portrait
and tell me what you see
Will you shine your light of truth
on the real me
I can't see fact from fiction
and I long for clarity
So tell me what You see
Tell me what You see

You say I am your masterpiece
Your artwork, your design
Yet I've questioned every brushstroke
and I've altered all the lines
With every gain and every loss
My vision blurs with tears
'til I can't see anything
Past the stranger in the mirror
I don't recognize myself
Lord I'm desperate for your help, so...

CHORUS

Music & Lyrics by Allie Lapointe & Sara Beth Geoghegan
© 2007 Paper Princess Music / Story City Music BMI

TO BE FREE
Words & Music by Constance Rhodes, Mark Gersmehl and Missi Hale

Who's that stranger in the mirror?
My reflection left unclear
By all these voices in my head
I'm so tired of this cage
Of this fire that seems to rage
Consuming all my soul
To be whole would be heaven
But to get there seems like hell
And I don't know what it would mean

To be free to be free
Of these painful lies that threaten me
To be free, could it be
Something more than what I have believed
To be free

Another day and still I pray
Are you really even there
Or have I finally pushed you away (like everyone else)
I'm so lonely, I'm so afraid
I'm drowning in my shame
Yet I know there must be more than this
To be whole would be heaven
And I want to make this change
But I need some help to believe

To be free to be free
Would be sweeter than controlling everything
To be free
Could I see
What lies just beyond this fear in me
To be free

They say that freedom is a song
Oh how my heart longs
Lord just to see
How different life
Could be
To be free

Just to see myself like you see me
In your eyes I can fly
Become everything that I was made to be
Lord please help me know, I'm not alone
Give me strength to fight
and the will to find...
Freedom

Written by Constance Rhodes, Mark Gersmehl and Missi Hale
© 2007 Constance Rhodes / BMI / Lifetones Music ASCAP / Centricity Music Publishing ASCAP

TIME FOR A BREAKDOWN
Words & Music by Missi Hale & Kim Walling

Pressed against the window pane
Looking out at a world you want to embrace
But walls have enclosed your heart with fear
It's alright, it's alright if you cry
Don't you hold all those tears on the inside
Just let go
It's time you breathe again
So tell me

What are you waiting for
When love is knocking at your door
It's time for you to begin again
You're worn out from holding in
All of the hurt from where you've been
Release it
You know it's about
Time for a breakdown

It's alright tonight if you fall
There is grace to uphold the breakable
Hope can reach into your soul
and bring you life once more

So what are you waiting for
When love is knocking on your door
It's time for you to begin again
Worn out from holding in
All of the hurt from where you've been
Release it
You know it's about
Time for a breakdown

There's no need to cry without a sound
Let those tears fall to the ground, yea
It's time for a breakdown

So what are you waiting for
When freedom is knocking at your door
It's time for you to begin again
You don't need to keep on holding in
All of the hurt from where you've been
Release it
You know it's about
Time for a breakdown
Breakdown

Missi Hale & Kim Walling
© 2005 Centricity Music Publishing ASCAP

PIECE ME TOGETHER
Words & Music by Missi Hale & Cami Leinhard

There isn't any question
As to why I'm a mess inside
I've searched other places, oh yeah
All for the rest I need to find

I wait in this chaos
Clearly I created it for myself
The answer is simple
Oh Lord I need Your help

So, piece me together
Put me right back where you want me
Cause You are forever
And this is only temporary

I thought seeing was believing
But on my own, I've seen enough
I know your desire is
To see all I know get to my heart

So, piece me together
Put me right back where you want me
Cause You are forever
And this is only temporary

Written by Missi Hale & Cami Leinhard
© 2005 Centricity Music Publishing ASCAP