Russian Ballerina lyrics

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 plie

O! My mother!

Russian Ballerina!

You were a swan

But now you're swimming in the Carribean

O! 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

La la la,la la la la la (x4)

Life changes

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

Til 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 priuettes 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!)

La la la,la la la la la (x6)

• Artist:Michelle Gurevich
• Album:Party Girl