You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess We were both young when I first saw you I close my eyes and the flashback starts I'm standing there On a balcony in summer air See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns See you make your way through the

I'm a Brooklyn baby He plays guitar while I sing Lou Reed I've got feathers in my hair They say I'm too young to love you Well, my boyfriend's in the band I get down to Beat poetry And my jazz collection's rare I can play most anything

Can you whisper The bittersweet between my teeth Trying to find the in-betweens Fall back in love eventually Yeah yeah yeah yeah We're only young and naive still We require certain skills The mood it changes like the wind Hard to control when it begins

Want to be free, got be free, want to be free, got be free Free, free, free So I'd be young and free Daddy made a way for me He paved a road so my burden is lighter And Momma did just the same Dropping love just like rain Knew she could make it right

So lucky to be loving you I only know what I know The passing years will show You've kept my love so young, so new And time after time You'll hear me say that I'm Time after time I tell myself that I'm So lucky to be The one you run to see

(Hmm, hum, hum) Ah, she keeps me moanin', groanin' Hey, because I feel so good, feel real good Why can't nobody love me like my baby does? Young girl turned out to be two times Quite the woman that I thought she was Oh she keeps me moanin', groanin' Hey,

What I'd give just to get a little bit back now Yeah, we fell in just as fast as we fell out We were too young to settle down and a big love in a small town In a small town, yeah We had big love in a small town In a small town Yeah, we were sixteen and

While we're young and beautiful It's a crazy ride And, baby, you and I Are keepin' our sweet love alive, tonight Like you mean it Kiss me like you mean it Cover me with sweetness Beautiful, beautiful, young and beautiful, oh Oh, so beautiful

You should be stronger than me Feel like a lady, and you my lady boy 'Cause I've forgotten all of young love's joy You've been here seven years longer than me Don't you know you supposed to be the man? Not pale in comparison to who you think I am You

To keep my rose in paradise She was a flower for the takin' Her beauty cut just like a knife And he was a banker from Macon Swore he'd love her all his life Bought her a mansion on a mountain With a formal garden and a lot a land But paradise became her