Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
Little girls sleep at night
Safe inside their dreams, is it a scheme
They think they'll grow up into Queens
I am old, I am young and wise
I'm just a little girl in low cut clothes
Who hides behind a face, but really knows
That you devise what a child get for free
Can loving be that way once for me?
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl
A women is what a woman gives
Sometimes she gives too much, look but don't touch
Most times for me, there's not enough
When a man fall in love, with me
He moves into me like he would a house
He decorates me and lives his fantasies out
If you devise what a child gets for free
And I'll be viewed that way once... of me
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl
With Love so Innocent, I found so late
When all I've done with love is
Played and made mistakes
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Tonight I'm just a little girl oh hmmm
Tonight I'm just a little girl
Mh tonight I'm just a little girl
Mh Tonight I'm just a little girl
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl oh
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Oh Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl oh
Tonight I'm just a little girl
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
I'm just your little girl...
Safe inside their dreams, is it a scheme
They think they'll grow up into Queens
I am old, I am young and wise
I'm just a little girl in low cut clothes
Who hides behind a face, but really knows
That you devise what a child get for free
Can loving be that way once for me?
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl
A women is what a woman gives
Sometimes she gives too much, look but don't touch
Most times for me, there's not enough
When a man fall in love, with me
He moves into me like he would a house
He decorates me and lives his fantasies out
If you devise what a child gets for free
And I'll be viewed that way once... of me
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl
With Love so Innocent, I found so late
When all I've done with love is
Played and made mistakes
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Tonight I'm just a little girl oh hmmm
Tonight I'm just a little girl
Mh tonight I'm just a little girl
Mh Tonight I'm just a little girl
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl oh
Come on and hold me tight
Don't turn off the light
Oh Just let your words embrace me
Like a fathers loving arms
Protect me from the night it will be all right
Cause tonight I'm just a little girl oh
Tonight I'm just a little girl
Tonight
Tonight
Tonight
I'm just your little girl...
Lyrics submitted by Mellow_Harsher
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