Story Behind The Song

Some friends of mine have children, two of them are little girls. One day I needed help with something so I asked for volunteers saying ?I need two very pretty girls to help me, are there any pretty girls here?? They were ages 4 and 7 and they both raised their hands high into the air with huge smiles on their faces. I remember stopping stone cold in my tracks for a moment, wondering to myself, how old are we when we have to lose that, when the world has beaten us down so that we no longer can shoot our hands into the air saying ?yes, I am a pretty girl!? I grew up thinking I was ugly, awkward and unattractive, I suppose like most people do. I never dated much and even when my high school boyfriend tried to tell me I was beautiful, in my mind, he was just saying it to make me feel good. I did not believe him. As I got older and fell in love, real love, even I was transformed into thinking I wasn?t so hideously ugly. And if it could happen for me, I know it could happen for so many others. I always wish I could give that gift to people, to help them know that they are beautiful even if society tells them they are not. I cried in the studio when I recorded this song, and I have to admit, even after all this time, I still cry sometimes when I sing it.

Song Description

We are raised in this society to think that only ?beautiful people? can have it all. We are so often told by so many forces that we are NOT beautiful that by a very young age most of us start to believe it. The transforming power of love is that it gives beauty to each one of us. And in the best of situations each person can discover that that beauty is actually already within us, not something that comes as an external artifact of love.

Lyrics

He likes a little sweet sugar in his coffee
He likes a sunset in the mountain air
He don?t have drop dead good looks
Or the money to get him there
Tonight he?s gonna pop the question
It took him a year to buy that diamond ring
He says I don?t know what you see in me
But it sure feels like the real thing

But only beautiful people fall in love
So I don?t know how this came to be
Cuz beautiful people fall in love?not me
Oh no, no not me

She tries to put on a little makeup
To get a face she can see in a dream
But when she opens her eyes
Well she don?t look like those magazines?oh no
She says hey baby, I don?t know what ya see in me
I wasn?t the homecoming queen of my day
But when you hold me in your arms
I sure feel that way

But only beautiful people fall in love
So I don?t know how this came to be
Cuz beautiful people fall in love?not me

Ain?t it tough to face the truth on the outside
But darlin? love sees with its own eyes
I promise you baby
Love sees with its own eyes
Love knows, love knows

That only beautiful people fall in love
That?s what you gave to me
That beautiful people
I never was those beautiful people
I thought that only beautiful people
Beautiful people, beautiful people
Well love knows that only beautiful people
Can fall in love
I promise you baby