[00:00.00]Nickel Dreams (Album Version) - Nanci Griffith
[00:10.65]A little girl dreamer
[00:12.99]Ribbons and long curls
[00:15.35]Reflections of yesterdays past
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[00:20.21]Headlines and footlights
[00:22.80]Wee hours and long nights
[00:24.91]Keep everything moving so fast
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[00:30.13]It's taken a long time
[00:32.56]And she's walked a fine line
[00:34.99]For fortune and fame have arrived
[00:40.12]She kept on striving
[00:42.60]And half-way surviving
[00:44.98]Till part of those dreams came alive
[00:49.37]Now she wishes she looked like they
[00:52.35]Tell her she looks all the time
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[00:59.15]What she'd give just to feel like
[01:01.87]She tells them she's feelin' just fine
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[01:08.91]All that money she makes every night
[01:13.20]Ain't as much as it seems
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[01:18.95]Cuz it's a dollar a wrinkle and less than a nickel a dream
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[01:33.52]Well her heart may be breaking
[01:36.14]But she keeps on taking what
[01:38.75]She thought she wanted back then
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[01:43.80]It's too late to change her
[01:46.09]There's always a stranger to tell her she's someone again
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[01:52.99]Now she wishes she looked like they
[01:55.98]Tell her she looks all the time
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[02:02.64]What she'd give just to feel like
[02:05.37]She tells them she's feelin' just fine
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[02:12.45]All that money she makes every
[02:15.43]Night ain't as much as it seems
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[02:22.51]Cuz it's a dollar a wrinkle
[02:25.26]And less than a nickel a dream
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[02:32.14]Nickel a dream
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[02:36.95]Nickel a dream