A little girls dream world

Of ribbons and long curls

Reflections of yesterdays past

Now headline and footlights

Wee hours and long nights

Keep everything movin so fast



It's taken a long time

And she's walked a thin line

But the fame and the fortune arrived

She kept on strivin

Half way surivin

Til part of those dreams came alive



And she wishes she looked

Like they tell her she looks all the time

What she'd give just to feel like

She tells them she's feeling

"Just fine"

And all that money she makes every night

Ain't as much as it seems

It's a dollar a wrinkle

And less than a nickle a dream



Her heart may be breakin

But she keeps on takin

What she thought she wanted back then

It's too late to change her

There's always a stranger

To tell her she's someone again



And she wishes she looked...