King of the World

At ten in the morningI was laughing at somethingAt the airport terminalAt nine in the eveningI was sitting crying to you over the phoneWhile passing the border from a state to anotherFilled with people whom I couldn't help to relate toAnd we stopped a while at a roadside restaurantWhere the waitress was sitting outside smoking in her carShe had that look of total fear in her eyesAnd as we drove away from there she looked at me andShe smiled

I keep running aroundTrying to find the groundBut my head is in the starsAnd my feet are in the skyWell I'm nobody's babyI'm everybody's girlI'm the queen of nothingI'm the king of the world

And once you asked me well what's my biggest fearThat things would always remain so unclearThat one day I'd wake up all aloneWith a big family and emptiness deep in my bonesThat I would be so blinded, turn a deaf earAnd that my fake laugh would suddenly sound sincere

Now I wasn't born for anythingWasn't born to say anythingOh I'm just here now and soon I'll be goneI'm nobody's babyI'm everybody's girlI'm the queen of nothingI'm the king of the world

Now everyday there's a short intermissionWhile I sleep they start dimming the lightsBut I've seen everything I ever want to seeScreaming "Fire!" in a theater people taking their seatsWatch it all go down like a stone in a streamIf you fall for your reflection you will drown in a dream

Tell me something realTell me something trueI just want to feel there's something left that I can doBut I'm nobody's babyI'm everybody's girlI'm the queen of nothingI'm the king of the world