Lyrics to
Pretty As You Feel

This version of Pretty As You Feel was released by Jefferson Airplane in 1971.

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You’re only pretty as you feel
only pretty as you feel inside
you’re only pretty as you feel
just as pretty as you feel inside

when you wake up in the morning
rub some sleep from your eye
look inside your mirror
comb your hair

don’t give vanity a second chance
no no no
beauty’s only skin deep
it goes just so far ’cause
you’re only pretty as you feel
you’re only pretty as you feel inside
just as pretty as you feel

now you’re feelin pretty
now you’re feelin good
now you’re ready to face the world girl
now you’re feelin good
go out there ‘n’ knock ’em silly girl
go out there ‘n’ show ’em how ta thrill
’cause you’re only pretty as you feel
only pretty as you feel
you’re only pretty as you feel
just as pretty as you feel inside
feelin’ so pretty, feelin’ so pretty
pretty mama.

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About Lyrics and Pretty As You Feel by Jefferson Airplane

When you decide to study the lyrics to Pretty As You Feel, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1971 song by Jefferson Airplane. Some of the lyrics to Pretty As You Feel have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Jefferson Airplane and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Pretty As You Feel if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Pretty As You Feel" means the words set to the music of Pretty As You Feel, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Jefferson Airplane. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Pretty As You Feel and the lyrics to Pretty As You Feel are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Jefferson Airplane who came here looking just for the lyrics to Pretty As You Feel, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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