I Dance And Dance And Smile And Smile(Live At Carnegie Hall) - Dory Previn

I Dance And Dance And Smile And Smile (Live At Carnegie Hall) - Dory Previn
I'm always loving someone
More than he loves me
Lord
I wish
Just this once
That's not how it would be
I always try too hard
When I find someone new
God
I wish
Just this once
You'd need me more
That I need you
I danced
To please my father
Just to win once glance
Some sign of his approval
I danced and danced
And danced and danced
I smiled
To make my mother
Proud I was her child
To gain some small attention
I smiled and smiled
And smiled and smiled
My books and bikes
I bartered to try
To buy a friend
Now I'm grown
This heart I own
Is the currency
I spend and spend
And spend
And
In the end
I'll give you
Everything I own
Sure
You'd never want me
For myself alone
How I hate the way I am
Always trying to impress
Lord
If I could love me more
I could love you less
And if I could
Love you less
I would not
Confuse you
Dancing
Dancing
Smiling
Smiling
Till
Of course
I lose you