Beautiful
Christina Aguilera
Performed by Jessica Mauboy on Australian Idol
1. Watch this video with one or two other students.
2. Read the words to the song and go through the lyrics.
3. Discuss with the others how the words in this song make you feel. Look at the
Feelings and Moods list if you need some help.
4. List as many words as you can in your journal that express the emotions or feelings that are within this song.
5. Listen to the song again. How do you think Jessica, the girl who is singing this song is feeling?
6. Discuss with the group any songs that you might know that make you feel a certain way and why?
Beautiful
By Christina Aguilera
Sung by Jessica Mauboy on Australian Idol
Everyday is so wonderful
And suddenly, it's hard to breathe
Now and then, I get insecure
From all the pain,
I'm so ashamed
I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring me down, oh no
So don't you bring me down today
To all your friends say you're delirious
So consumed in all your doom
Trying hard to fill the emptiness,
The pieces gone,
Left the puzzle undone,
Ain't that the way it is?
You are beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring you down, no, no
Cause you are beautiful in every single way
Yes words can't bring you down, oh, no
So don't you bring me down today
No matter what we do
(no matter what we do)
No matter what we say
(no matter what we say)
We're the song inside the tune
(yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Full of beautiful mistakes
And everywhere we go
(and everywhere we go)
The sun will always shine
(sun will always, always shine)
But tomorrow we might awake
On the other side
'Cause we are beautiful,
No matter what they say
Yes, words won't bring us down, oh no
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring us down, oh no
So don't you bring me down today
Don't you bring me down today
Don't you bring me down...
Mmm, today