Russian Ballerina

It takes ten years just to get
 Your stinking leg up
 Then five more to make it
 Not look like shit
 Soviet children form a crowd
 Sized and tested — who will be a star
 Hero of passion of whom they'll say
 She took her final breath in grand plié
 Oh, my mother russian ballerina!
 You were a swan, but now you're swimming in the Carribean
 Oh, my mother russian ballerina!
 Nobody knows how you can live without the love of your life
 Everybody's asking me: "Where is Mary"?
 I don't see her at the theatre or the parties
 That's right, because she's carving bamboo
 Far from the artistic millieu
 Never thought she'd live without
 Allegiance to a life of art
 Oh, my mother russian ballerina!
 You were a swan, but now you're swimming in the Carribean
 Oh, my mother russian ballerina!
 Nobody knows how you can live without the love of your life
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 Life change — one day its eggshells and bread
 Married to an intellect — the next you drive a corvette
 Things change, you live your life for the stage
 Till your kidney floats away, thrown in a car accident
 A time for art, a time for living
 Sometimes the two can be conflicting
 And Mama, I'll meet you at Caribana
 Together we're the highest form of art
 Oh, my mother russian ballerina!
 You were a swan but now you're swimming in the Caribbean
 Oh, my mother russian ballerina!
 Nobody knows how you can live without the love of your life
 Oh, my mother russian ballerina!
 Too bad your pirouettes now look almost as bad as mine
 Oh, my mother russian ballerina!
 Who needs that bullshit — we can drink at the casino all night
 (Everybody now!)
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