The Ugly Beautiful Verse 1 Sent the text and now I'm staring At three dots that never come Checked my phone eleven times now Feeling stupid, feeling dumb Said the thing I shouldn't say Laughed too loud, stayed too long Now I'm replaying every moment Wondering where it all went wrong Verse 2 Canceled plans again tonight Told them something came up fast Truth is nothing came up I just couldn't make it past The door, the shoes, the mirror The voice that says stay small Some days the couch is safer Than risking anything at all Pre-Chorus And I know I'm not the only one Who wonders if they're enough Who practices conversations Then chokes when it gets tough Chorus Do they like me? Did I talk too much? Am I too intense? Not intense enough? I'm a grown adult Eating ice cream in the dark Wondering why confidence Feels like a foreign art This is the ugly beautiful The mess we never show The wars we fight in silence That nobody will know This is the ugly beautiful And maybe that's okay We're all just scared and hoping We'll figure out the way Verse 3 Wrote the email fourteen times Still haven't hit send Overthinking every word How it starts and how it ends Wonder if they notice When I disappear for days Or if I'm just background noise Lost in the haze Pre-Chorus And I want to be the person Who walks in like they belong But most days I'm just pretending And praying nothing goes wrong Chorus Am I boring? Am I too much? Why's connection feel like Something I can't touch? I rehearse goodbyes Before the hello's done Brace myself for rejection Before it's even come This is the ugly beautiful The doubt beneath the smile The question with no answer That lingers for a while This is the ugly beautiful The human underneath The part we keep in shadows Afraid of what they'll see Bridge I just want to know I matter Want to feel like I belong Want to stop apologizing For everything I've done wrong I want to trust the silence Doesn't mean they've walked away Want to believe that I'm worth staying for At the end of the day Final Chorus So here's to the overthinkers The ones who feel too deep Who lie awake with questions When they should be asleep This is the ugly beautiful And you're not alone in this The mess is not a failure The mess is what it is This is the ugly beautiful The truth we finally speak We're all just scared and human And that don't make us weak Outro Do they like me? Yeah, I hope they do But tonight I'm learning Maybe I like me too.
