BF QOD: Beautiful You
Date posted: June 8, 2012 | By: Dawn Happy Friday, beauties!
Today’s BF QOD is straight from the horsey’s mouth…mine!
That’s right! The quote is from “Beautiful You”, a song I wrote for my 2008 debut album, Sweet Time.
“You can do anything. Dance, laugh and sing. You’re carried by love. All that you see will come to be so what will you do…beautiful you?” (Dawn McCoy
I wrote “Beautiful You” for a few young friends I’d met and then, as it happens sometimes, I realized I was writing the words for myself.
I’d like to say I was writing them for adolescent me…but..no. I was writing them for my friends – and for that insecure girl who kept mocking me back in the mirror every night.
So I wrote it for other girls in hopes they might never meet that mean girl in the mirror.
Funny how that happens.
Enjoy them, share them and I hope they mean as much to you now as they meant to me!
xoxo,
BF
BF Asks: What words make you feel more beautiful and secure?
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Well, first off- I love “Beautiful You” the song and I love beautiful you, BF! My new favorite song that hits the important notes about true beauty is a song by Sara Bareilles called “Beautiful Girl”. She has not released it via iTunes or on an EP or CD yet (tears) but you can easily find a video of her singing it on YouTube. I fortunately got to see her perform it live in April. She is amazing as is the message she conveys in this song. These are the lyrics from the refrain:
“So before you trade in your summer skin for those high heeled shoes, to make him want to be with you.
Let me remind you one more time…
That just maybe, you’re beautiful but you just can’t see. So why don’t you trust me.
They’ll see it too you beautiful girl you.”–Sara Bareilles, “Beautiful Girl”