Beautiful

Beautiful by Christina Aguilera is featured in Home, the sixteenth episode of Season One. It is sung by Mercedes, with the Cheerios and other Glee Club members doing back-up.

During the song, people (notably Quinn being the first) start standing up and singing with Mercedes. Sue seems the most shocked as she didn't expect the performance and was afraid Tracy was going to give her a horrible report thanks to Mercedes. But instead, this song causes Tracy to give Sue a good report instead of the horrible one he was going to give her.

Lyrics[]

Mercedes:
Ooooooooh yeah, yeah, oh, oh, oh, yeah
Every day is so wonderful
And suddenly it's hard to breathe
Now and then I get insecure
From all the pain
I'm so ashamed

I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring me down, oh no
So, don't you bring me down today

No, no, no, no, no, no, mmmm

To all your friends you're delirious
So consumed in all your doom
Tryin' hard to fill the emptiness, the piece is gone
Left the puzzle undone, ain't that the way it is?

'Cause you are beautiful no matter what they say

Mercedes and WMHS Students:
Words can't bring you down

Mercedes:
Oh no, no, no
You are beautiful in every single way, yes,

Mercedes with WMHS Students:
Words can't bring you down, (Mercedes: Oh no, oh)
So don't you bring me down today

WMHS Students:
No matter what we do

Mercedes and WMHS Students:
No matter what we do

WMHS Students:
No matter what we say

Mercedes and WMHS Students:
No matter what we say

WMHS Students:
We're the song that's outta tune
Full of beautiful mistakes

Mercedes:
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah

WMHS Students:
And everywhere we go

Mercedes:
And everywhere we go

WMHS Students:
The sun will always shine (Mercedes: The sun will always, always shine)
But tomorrow we might awake over on the other side

Mercedes and WMHS Students:
'Cause we are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words won't bring us down (Mercedes: Oh, no, oh, oh, oh)
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring us down (Mercedes: Oh, oh, oh)

Mercedes:
So don't you bring me down today oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Don't you bring me down today hey, yeah, oh
Don't you bring me down today

Trivia[]

The song is Glee's hundredth performance.
The song was performed at the Kids Inaugural Concert 2013.

Mistakes[]

When Mercedes has finished singing the song, you can see Kurt push through Santana to get to Mercedes, but in the next shot, you can see him push through again. We can also see some people clapping, but there is no sound of the clapping.