Little Ballerina

Little Ballerina - Emile Haynie/Rufus Wainwright

I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance

I know it's hard to find romance

When all your dreams slipped out your hands

Oh darlin'

I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance

I know it's hard to find romance

When all your dreams slipped out your hands

Oh darlin'

Come the nighttime I'm your lifeline such a fool to fall

I'm a lifeline maybe I'm a fool for love such a fool to fall

Maybe I'm a fool for love such a fool to fall

I'm a lifeline for love for love

As soon as she walked in

We started talking

As if nobody else exist

With her bleach blond hair and her cold hard stare

And her lucky 13 on her wrist

And all night long I play my song

Until she broke down in tears

Oh it's just the same caught up in the game

Of life so home made my dear

'Cause all I need is time

All I need is time

I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance

I know it's hard to find romance

When all your dreams slipped out your hands

Oh darlin'

I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance

I know it's hard to find romance

When all your dreams slipped out your hands

Oh darlin'

So I take her to the ocean

Love to watch her floating

Hoping that she drifts my way

All those waves drown her sorrow

She'll need me tomorrow

So what's another empty day

But all my friends they see the end

She's been doing this for years

But I swear I know that her heart can grow

Beyond that lonely little life that she fears

'Cause all I need is time

All I need is time

I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance

I know it's hard to find romance

When all your dreams slipped out your hands

Oh darlin'

You've been trying so hard

For all of your life

Never got it quite right

This I know

Oh you say you need it slow

Or you just lose control

Baby if I find the way

To take off your mind away from the cold

Just tell me that you'll go oh

I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance

I know it's hard to find romance

When all your dreams slipped out your hands

Oh darlin'

I just want the chance to let that little ballerina come dance

I know it's hard to find romance

When all your dreams slipped out your hands

Oh darlin'

Come the nighttime I'm your lifeline such a fool to fall

I'm a lifeline maybe I'm a fool for love such a fool to fall

Maybe I'm a fool for love such a fool to fall

I'm a lifeline for love for love

Maybe I'm a fool for love such a fool to fall

Maybe I'm a fool for love such a fool to fall

Maybe I'm a fool for love

For love for love for love