Caviar Dreams

[JACKIE]
Here lies Jackie Mallery
Minimum-wage salary
With a tiny life and great, big dreams
She has no clue how to achieve
Growing up in a town called Endwell
Where the only way things end well
Is if you find a way
To leave

Tonight, my friends'll all be hanging at the Oakdale Mall
Where time moves slower than the Susquehanna
It's just another Friday evening in what you could call
Our slice of lower-middle-class Americana

But where I wanna be seems farther than those distant stars
Far from those auto lots, chain restaurants, and poolroom bars
Out where another kind of lifestyle gleams
With champagne wishes and caviar dreams

In their humongous, fancy houses up on Hilltop Road
There's people living what we call "the high life"
While I'm just sitting here and feeling like I might explode
Before I get to make that "high life" my life

And there's this ticking here inside of me, a clock or bomb
Or just a warning that I shouldn't turn into my mom
Still remembering as she does the dishes
Her caviar dreams and champagne wishes

American royalty
Nightly on my TV
Some folks can live with a lack
I'm on a different track

American royalty
Meet Jackie Mallery

[JACKIE, ENSEMBLE]
Someday I'm gonna be you, and you're gonna be (Ooh)
Me (Ah)

[JACKIE]
I've always known I would be somebody who's

[JACKIE & ENSEMBLE]
Going far

[JACKIE, ENSEMBLE]
I've known it ever since I learned to toddle (Since I learned)

[JACKIE]
Don't have the talent as an athlete or an acting star
And I'm not tall enough to be a famous model
But, I've got

[JACKIE & ENSEMBLE]
Brains

[JACKIE]
And I've got

[JACKIE & ENSEMBLE]
Guts

[JACKIE]
And I'll be

[JACKIE & ENSEMBLE]
Using that

[JACKIE]
Until I'm

[JACKIE & ENSEMBLE]
Finally the one who they're all looking at

[JACKIE, ENSEMBLE]
No matter how unlikely now it seems (Ah, ah, ah-ah-ah)
I'm gonna have a life of chocolate creams (Ah, ah, ah-ah-ah)
And it'll all come true and be so delicious
Those champagne wishes (Champagne wishes)
Those champagne wishes (Those champagne wishes)
My champagne wishes (Ah-ah-ah)
And caviar dreams (Dreams)