Jane Voss
Lyrics • The Thing That Makes You Beautiful

The Thing That Makes You Beautiful

There’s not a pretty or a handsome
That could hope to stand in place
Or hold a candle to the light I’ve seen
Shining from your face;
What no random quirk of nature
Could ever compromise,
The thing that makes you beautiful is in your eyes.
Oh, the thing that makes you beautiful is in your eyes.

Now some may prize the form of beauty
That’s been sized up by men,
Paraded and rated
On a scale from one to ten.
Don’t they know that there’s no contest
For the Fairest of the Fair?
‘Cause the thing that makes you beautiful is beyond compare,
Oh, the thing that makes you beautiful is beyond compare.

And there are those who say that beauty
Is the flower of a day,
That it blooms in youth only,
And with age will fade away;
But enduring as diamonds,
More shining than gold,
The thing that makes you beautiful cannot grow old.
Oh, the thing that makes you beautiful cannot grow old.

So if there’s ever any question,
If you get to feeling dull and old,
Won’t you let me be your mirror
Where the truth is always told.
In the eye of this beholder
You’re a bright and shining star,
‘Cause the thing that makes you beautiful is the way you are,
Oh, the thing that makes you beautiful is just the way you are.

French lyric by Jeanie McLerie:

Il y’a du monde qui dit que la beauté
C’est la fleur d’une journée
Que ça fleurit dans la jeunesse
Avec l’âge ça disparait

Plue éternel qu’un diament
Plus brillant que l’or
La chose qui te fait belle peût pas viellir

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