Lyrics for Thank God I'm Pretty as interpreted by MaritheGreat

Thank God I'm Pretty Lyrics
Thank God I'm pretty
The occasional free drink I never asked for
The occasional admission to a seedy little bar
Invitation to a stranger's car
I'm blessed
With the ability to rend a grown man tongue-tied
Which only means that when it's dark outside
I have to run and hide can't look behind me
Thank God I'm pretty

Thank God I'm pretty
Every skill I ever have will be in question
Every ill that I must suffer merely brought on by myself
Though the cops would come for someone else
I'm blessed
I'm truly privilaged to look this good without clothes on
Which only means that when I sing you're jerking off
And when I'm gone you won't remember
Thank God I'm pretty

Thank you God
Oh, lord
Thank you God
Oh, oh and when a gaggle of faces appears around me
It's lucky I hate to be taken seriously
I think my ego would fall right through the cracks in the floor
If I couldn't count on men to slap my ass anymore
I know my destiny's such, that I'm all stocking and curl
So everybody thinks that I'm a fucking suicide girl

Thank you God
For the occasional champagne I never asked for
The occasional admission to a seedy little bar
Invitation to a stranger's car
I'm blessed
With the ability to rend a grown man tongue-tied
Which only means that when it's dark outside
I have to run and hide can't look behind me
Thank God I'm pretty

Thank God
Thank God
Thank you
Thank you
Thank you God!

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Halissa
10-22-2006

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I haven't heard the song, but it seems like she's sarcastically illustrating why it's not a good thing to be pretty; because she isn't taken seriously and has to keep an eye out for unwanted attention from males.

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ivyautumn
11-04-2006

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I love this...it's as if it's making fun of the superficial, appearance-based society we live in. Go emilie.

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demonwings
12-30-2006

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I really love this song.. about the course of being pretty..everyone just sees the pretty girl but never the smart one.. and i like the part "So everybody thinks that I'm a fucking suicide girl" becouse same told me that i look like one.. and i'm never really shure if thats a compliment^^

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l177l30n3
03-30-2007

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This song hits close to home, I am unfortunately a pretty and a smart girl, but few people tend to look past the outside, to see the depth inside, I am in the process of becoming a suicide girl, just so I can feel I am making a difference, and can have a voice, if it means I have to use my looks to get something said, then so be it, I throughly enjoy her sarcasm, and the venom with which she looks at being beautiful in this song

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Haibane
04-09-2007

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I love how sarcastic this song is but she still sounds narcissistic.

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mana-mad
06-13-2007

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This is a hidden track on Opheliac...it's great and definitely my fave song...

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indiamayormaynot
08-02-2007

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She makes a point about how appearance-driven we are and that, as much as it seems the opposite, attractive people's lives are as difficult as unattractive, for different reasons. I like the sarcasm in it, because if it were straightfoward in saying "being pretty kind of sucks" she'd sound like a whiny prat. The sarcasm helps, but I agree with Hailbane. She sounds really stuck up.

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Matt Holck
11-03-2007

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knowgirl found it funny

she says
if pretty is pinnacle of the female ideal
it doesn't get you much

likens it "I'm just a girl" by NO DOUBT

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LucieAndCo
12-11-2007

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She's truly privileged to look this good without clothes on? Well! It's not as if anybody was forcing her to wear lingerie or less, and release her albums with more photographs than words in the booklets, and a poster, too, etc. etc. And it isn't even her God-given striking features that the world gets to see, it's all buried under six feet of make-up.
I do think her music wouldn't be half as much 'listened' to if it came from someone plump, pimpled, and pasty-faced in a giant woolen sweater and shapeless blue jeans, but something tells me that that isn't what she's complaining about - much rather, she seems upset by the realisation that other people may have noticed how much she sells just on appearance, and now she's rushing to say IT'S NOT MY FAULT IS IT before accusations are made (well, they certainly HAVE been made already), using sarcasm to show her intelligent view on a subject that someone so eager to be viewn as intelligent might not have wanted to draw even more attention to. To me, it only furthers 'suspicion'. I've nothing against Emilie Autumn and she has every right in the world to be the image she wants to be - but complaints about an unfair focus on outer aspects from someone who obviously pays such a great deal of attention to their looks and style seem somewhat phoney.

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winemysavior
01-14-2008

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this makes me think of that common saying "it's easy you're pretty" or " you can get whatever you want you have a pretty face" or any other sayings close to that.
I think the meaning is trying to tell us that just because someone is pretty doesn't mean they can get things the easy way. She also humorusly portrays situations in which she sarcastically says 'thank god im pretty'
great song. Emilie Autumn is a superb songwriter!

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winemysavior
01-14-2008

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ah and i forgot to add that a 'pretty face' does have it tough and those situations are good examples of it too!. Getting hit on at the bar by skeevy people doesn't really make your day. Also it's possible a person won't take a beautiful person seriously so yea just wanted to add to the previous comment =)

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--WRINGER--
01-23-2008

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I love this song, because I can totally relate, but I look at it differently, than you guys do.
a lot of people are intimidated by the way I look. They think I'm scary, just because I wear dark make up and have really big hair, so the way I see it, none of these things are happening to her, because she doesn't fit the typical ideal of beauty, and she's making fun of girls who are really conventionaly pretty.
which makes sense if you've ever had people be frightened or uncomfortable because of your appearance, even though other people like you think you're beautiful.
I also read somewhere that EA was mocked a lot by her peers because she's been dressing this way since she was in high school, and they weren't used to girls like her.

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ladyofshallott
01-26-2008

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She's saying that all the pretty girls are not taken seriously, and are basically preyed upon by all men. This is true, in a sense, for I've found that the average male is usually fixed on looks, and not cleverness. There are few men out there anymore who will look past the outside. Sometimes it seems the only place we girls can ever find "Mr.Right" is in romance novels and fairy tales.

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--WRINGER--
01-31-2008

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"Every ill that I must suffer, merely brought on by myself, tho the cops would come for someone else" is definately commentary on her being abused when she was younger. so this song was probably built up around that experience, and how horrid it is for her to go through the crap from men that a "normal" girl could probably deal with well, or might even like.
However, it's meaning to me personally doesn't change by my discovery that she'd been abused, because it can still bend other ways for people like me.

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btrswtbutterfly
04-25-2008

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Definately a sarcastic way of saying being pretty isn't everything, and it's actually blaming being pretty for her problems. No one takes her seriously. Men just look at her as a pretty face to "jerk-off" to, and the whole line of "when it's dark outside, I have to run and hide" makes it clear that the man who raped her in her past probably said the typical line, "I'm so sorry that this had to happen to you. It's just that you're so pretty." And this song is mainly blaming her good looks for being raped. This is a typical thing that girls go through after rape. They blame themselves. They think, "Maybe if I wasn't wearing..." or "Maybe I gave him the wrong message..." or "Maybe it's because I make myself look too enticing..."

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vrykolakas
05-21-2008

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Quite obviously, a very sarcastic response to people who claim pretty girls get everything, or perhaps to people who have personally claimed people only like her because she's pretty (which she is, but she's also extremely talented, the reason for which so many adore her). Just illustrating what attractive women really get. i.e. "I think my ego would fall right through the cracks in the floor, if I couldn't count on men to slap my ass anymore. I know my destiny's such, that I'm all stocking and curl, so everybody thinks that I'm a fucking suicide girl."

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iamtheshit
07-19-2008

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Being good looking, being ugly, being average looking, what have you, in life alot of the time you have to prove people wrong, and work harder. Wether it's because of a stereotype..."pretty girls don't have brains" or ..random.."ugly people are super smart and have no social skills" whatever it is, people have to work somewhat hard to convince people that their is something else there, wether it be you feel ugly, you want people to see past your looks, wether it be you are beautiful and want to people to see past your looks, that its not just a pretty face. Everyone has to work somewhat hard, and deal with some things.

Sure an ugly girl won't get attention like a beautiful girl might, but an ugly girl sees the not getting attention at all part a problem. While, the beautiful girl might see the overload of attention as a problem.

So basically, I just think the whole message of this song is original and nicely played out, but it just comes off very dramatic to me. It comes off too dramatic for something that, well...really isn't that big of a deal.

But she seems to be a dramatic person. So she can do what she wants. Lol.

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ChromePiggy
08-13-2008

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This song is hilarious because of how sarcastic it is. Emilie Autumn's voice irks on my nerves, but she sure knows how to compose a song.

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Chaoticpsi
10-22-2008

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I got to say, of all the EA songs this is one of my favorite. It's very sarcastic and sure she's a little full of herself; but who (in her place) wouldn't be. Some background about EA is that she plays seven instruments. She learned how to conduct when she was fifteen and mastered the Violin before she was ten. She's considered to be a musical prodigy. Also she's the main spokes person for Manic Panic, a huge cosmetic line.

From what I've read about EA she's a ruthless business woman as well as a prodigy.

Before her career was launched EA was part of a band that Courtney Love put together, and publicly Love sold her as nothing more than a playtoy; she was never given credit for her musical talent or other contributions to the group. It was because she has a pretty face that the public bought it.

In fact I believe the line "So everyone thinks I'm a fucking Suicide Girl" is a direct stab at that time of her life.

The song "Thankgod I'm pretty" for EA is a sarcastic slap in the face for anyone who ever believed she was nothing more than a pretty face.

As far as what this song means to me (I have a very relative position on this one because I'm a guy) it reminds me not to take anyone (or anything) at face value; because what's underneath can sometimes be more amazing.

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xxEmolollipopsxx
03-09-2009

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I think this song is about how good looks can bring stuff from guys and how ugly people aren't getting that attention, "The occasional free drink I never asked for", as in, A guy buys her drinks because she's good looking.. "Invitation to a stranger's car I'm blessed With the ability to rend a grown man tongue-tied" and I think that strangers ask her to come to their house and she loves how she looks because she can leave a man tongue tied because of her beauty. "I think my ego would fall right through the cracks in the floor If I couldn't count on men to slap my ass anymore" and I think this means, if she was ugly, she wouldn't have all the men doing stuff for her.

But this is only how I see it in my eyes.




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xxEmolollipopsxx
03-12-2009

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And "Every ill that I must suffer merely brought on by myself, Though the cops would come for someone else"
this means that even the cops wouldn't take her in because she's so pretty so she can get away with it.
The true thing that confuses me are these lyrics, "Which only means that when I sing you're jerking off And when I'm gone you won't remember Thank God I'm pretty"

But, oh well. Just because someone writes lyrics doesn't mean they HAVE to be about something..


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youlostmysoul
07-08-2009

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i know demonwings, i was getting my pictures done, and the photogerpher said that i looked like a suicide girl.

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MelDaCat
09-22-2009

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Now, I am a real fan of Emilie Atumn. I find her very talented, but...I have real mixed feelings about this song.

On one end, I find it witty and insightful that being pretty isn't as wonderful as people like to believe. We're very looks-oriented in this society, and often assume, the prettier you are, the better, and more fortunate you and your life are. It's good to be reminded that it's not always greener on the other side. I think it's always good to consider how the other side lives before we judge or envy, and this song acts as a reminder.

However, I also have a few complaints.
Some of the problems she talks about occur for all women, not just the pretty ones. Many girls aren't taken seriously, or their skills/intelligence is doubted because of their gender. Many women shouldn't wander out alone at night, simply because they are women and are putting themselves in a vulnerable situation. To imply these things happen because she's pretty is, frankly, kind of insulting.
Also, for someone who obviously pays so much attention to her looks ( and let's be honest, corsets aren't self-lacing, and make-up doesn't apply itself ), it's a rather hypocritical statement.
Honestly, as witty, and catchy as the song is, it honestly feels more like a self-justification, than an insightful statement. I know we've all been in the situation where we feel guilty for having something/being better off than someone else, so we try to tone it down by saying 'O-oh well, it's really not all THAT great!', and then procede to list the lamest reasons why it isn't so good.
Again, as much as I love Emilie Autumn, I personally have to say I dislike this song.

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omgzeloswilder
11-04-2009

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There's nothing narcissistic about this song. It's strictly satire. A sexist will often say that women have it easier because they get free drinks at bars or are treated well by men because they are pretty.

What's the first thing you think of when you hear about a woman being raped on the news? Maybe she was drunk, maybe she was wearing revealing clothing. Maybe she was PRETTY. She asked for it, obviously. She was pretty.

Every women who has ever lived as lived by a rape schedule, whether they are conscious of it or not. Just got home from work and want to take a jog outside, but it's getting dark. Don't want to take the risk of being attacked. But hey, at least you get free drinks at bars. Women have it so easy!

That's what this song is about. I feel sorry for whoever said she sounds narcissistic, though I shouldn't be. Many people are incapable of deep thought.

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