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Eileen

She’s sitting on the porch of her childhood home
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in this boring small town
She’s humming a lullaby and she’s rocking her baby to sleep
Her mum is preparing the supper, her dad is watching TV
   Even though still a child
   Yet a mother herself
   At the age of fifteen
   Eileen, Eileen, what happened to your dreams?

Grown up well sheltered by the love of mom and dad
She got everything she wanted, got everything she said
She was daddy’s little princess, she was mummy’s little girl
They would have done everything for her
   But it never seemed to be enough
   Eileen reached for the stars
   Now she is falling deep
   Eileen, Eileen, what happened to your dreams?

She was everybody’s darling, and she looked very fine
She was the belle of the ball every year on junior high
She was elected captain of the cheerleading squad
It seemed that everything she wished, she got
   But she just felt boredom
   With this hicktown and her life
   She was hard to be pleased
   Eileen, Eileen, what happened to your dreams?

Since she’d been a child, she dreamed of being a star
Dreamed of Hollywood and the Sunset Boulevard
She dreamed of wild parties, caviar and iced drinks
Dreamed of ball gowns and diamond rings
   She dreamed of taking the center stage
   On every awards show
   She dreamed of a career on the screen
   Eileen, Eileen, what happened to your dreams?

On her fifteenth birthday, she went celebrating with her friends
At the closed down gas station, at the town’s end
Despite their age, they got some alcohol
Anyway, the party was boring and dull
Till this dude from L.A. passed by and joined their bash
He got a red Camaro, on its hood a yellow flash
He talked about all these things, Eileen was dreaming about
And he promised to take her away from this hicktown
They left her friends and drove down to the creek
And they spent the night together on the small beach
   When she awoke at dawn
   The young man was gone
   Had left her behind pregnant in this small-town reality
   Eileen, Eileen, what happened to your dreams?

Now she’s sitting on the porch of her childhood home
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere in this boring small town
She’s humming a lullaby and she’s rocking her baby to sleep
Her mum is preparing the supper, her dad is watching TV
   Even though still a child
   Yet a mother herself
   At the age of fifteen
   Eileen, Eileen, what happened to your dreams?

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