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7. Nicole

by Dave Schindele

(c) Words Unheard Publishing ASCAP

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Dave: piano, vocals

Tracy: cello

You burst on-scene a starlet

Skin of cream hair scarlet

Figure curved and statuesque

Range thriller to burlesque

Thus was begun your unswerving quest

Not to take you to task Just a question to be asked

Mentioned in passing so as to see you whole

Is there a there for you Nicole without a role?

Where it's just you and your soul cast together?

Enduring painful shyness

Tempering sharp slyness

'Til by all accounts acquired success

Craft of fire and finesse

Quite simply now the best—

Our new Princess of Monaco

But must you always spin and dart

Confined within fine art?

Depart yourself for parts unknown?

Is there a there for you Nicole without a role?

Where it's just you and your soul cast together?

Now pop-up paparazzi to avoid

Mortifying morning tabloids

All immortalized in celluloid

You're a Walk-of-Fame household name

At the top of your game

But where do retire to when you're too tired to

Aspire to your next role?

When you're all acted out and all you've acted out

Exacts its toll?

Hope there's a there for you Nicole

Without a role

Where it's just you and your soul cast together

Hope there's a there for you at last Nicole...

(for Nicole Kidman)