A little girl dreamer
Ribbons and long curls
Reflections of yesterdays past
Headlines and footlights
Wee hours and long nights
Keep everything moving so fast
It's taken a long time
And she's walked a fine line
For fortune and fame have arrived
She kept on striving
And half-way surviving
Till part of those dreams came alive
Now 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 feelin' just fine
All that money she makes every night
Ain't as much as it seems
'Cause it's a dollar a wrinkle
And less than a nickel a dream
Well, her heart may be breaking
But she keeps on taking
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
Now 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 feelin' just fine
All that money she makes every night
Ain't as much as it seems
'Cause it's a dollar a wrinkle
And less than a nickel a dream