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{Note: The Madonna Timeline is an ongoing feature, where I put the iPod on shuffle, and write a little anecdote on whatever was going on in my life when that Madonna song was released and/or came to prominence in my mind.}

Just take me with all my stupid flaws
Changing me’s like shooting in the dark
Patience please, I’ll never be as perfect as you want me to be-lieve me I want it just as bad
Forgive me, wish I could change the past
Take it ’cause I’ll never be as perfect as you want

I think you’re confusing me with somebody else
I won’t apologize for being myself

Take me with all of my beautiful scars
I love you the way that you are
I come to you with all my flaws
With all my beautiful scars

A bonus track from 2015’s ‘Rebel Heart’ collection, ‘Beautiful Scars’ is standard Madonna fare – an airy disco-lite track that finds our heroine musing on the inner beauty to be found in the face of all our flaws. A nice-enough message with a nice-enough musical track, but I understand why it didn’t make the proper album cut. It percolates like coffee in the morning – nothing exceptional, nothing new, and nothing horribly offensive. Dare I say a little dull? I dare. Give it a listen and see what you think.

I love you the way that you are
With all my beautiful scars

Don’t judge me, just gotta let me be
Accept me, although I’m incomplete
My imperfections make me unique that’s my belief

I think you’re confusing me with somebody else
I won’t apologize for being myself

Take me with all of my beautiful scars
I love you the way that you are
I come to you with all my flaws
With all my beautiful scars
I love you the way that you are
With all my beautiful scars

Never say never
Anything is possible
Always been a rebel
Overcoming obstacles
I can’t give you perfect
But I can give you forever.

SONG #145: ‘Beautiful Scars’ – Spring 2015