Champagne Taste

I was born simple and normal as one could be

Never wanting what was “best” and never wanting to be “she”

That girl who made parents swoon and teachers go berserk

I was happy to leave at school all of my homework

I have champagne tastes on a tap water budget,

Champagne tastes on a tap water budget,

The water will soon be cut off but I’m not carin’

I just spotted a well spout down the lane

My heart never fell into place in this universe

It seems they wanted me to be a vet or maybe a nurse

I dreamed of the days of marryin’ rich, having valets

‘Course they’ll never exist but I still pray

‘Cause I got champagne tastes on a tap water budget

Champagne tastes on a tap water budget

No I don’t see myself lazy

Just thinking of when someone will need me…

The moral is that I help the soul

My words comfort and make you whole

Your pains are forgotten and life’s all good

And I do it all for free

I work my fingers to the bone without asking for it

I’ll love you t’ill your dyin’ days, I swear it

I ask so little of those around me and pleasantly smile like a puppy-child

That’s why I have champagne tastes on a tap water budget

Life would so much easier without that damned budget

If heart was worth pennies I’d be in up to my eye balls…

And my life doesn’t suit me

I can’t scrapbook or quilt

Don’t ask me to cook or clean- I dare ya

You’ll do nothing but fill me with guilt

Champagne tastes on a tap water budget repeat [x3 to fade]