Nickel Dreams

A little girl's dream world with ribbons and long curls

Reflections of yesterday's past

Now headlines and foot lights

Wee hours of long nights keep everything

Moving so fast

It's taken a long time

And she's walked a thin line

But the fame and fortune arrive

She kept on strivin'

Halfway survivin'

Til part of those dreams came alive

And she wishes she looked like

They tell her she looks like all the time

What she'd give just to feel like

She tells them she's feeling

Just fine

All that money she makes every night

Ain't as much as it seems

It's a dollar a wrinkle and less than a nickel a dream

Her heart may be breaking

But she keeps on taking

What she thought she wanted back when

It's too late to change her

There's always a stranger

To tell her she's someone again

And she wishes she looked like

They tell her she looks like 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 nickel a dream

Nickel dreams

Nickel dreams