[00:24.53]It takes ten years just to get
[00:29.29]Your stinking leg up
[00:34.60]Then five more to make it
[00:39.96]Not look like shit
[00:45.38]Soviet children form a crowd
[00:48.85]Sized and tested
[00:50.45]Who will be a star
[00:55.76]Hero of passion of whom they'll say
[00:59.02]She took her final breath in grand plie
[01:08.85]O! My mother!
[01:10.38]Russian Ballerina!
[01:12.81]You were a swan
[01:13.74]But now you're swimming in the Carribean
[01:19.20]O! My mother!
[01:20.68]Russian Ballerina!
[01:23.01]Nobody knows how you can live without the love of your life
[01:29.73]Everybody's asking me
[01:34.90]Where is Mary?
[01:39.95]I don't see her at the theatre
[01:45.09]Or the parties
[01:49.64]That's right, because
[01:51.81]She's carving bamboo
[01:54.09]Far from the artistic millieu
[02:00.74]Never thought she'd live without
[02:04.25]Allegiance to a life of art
[02:14.08]Oh! My mother! Russian ballerina!
[02:17.87]You were a swan but now you're swimming in the Carribean
[02:24.39]Oh! My mother! Russian ballerina!
[02:28.12]Nobody knows how you can live without the love of your life
[02:34.87]La la la,la la la la la (x4)
[03:02.74]Life changes
[03:04.23]One day its eggshells and bread
[03:05.91]Married to an intellect
[03:07.62]The next you drive a corvette
[03:12.89]Things change
[03:14.43]You live your life for the stage
[03:16.18]Til your kidney floats away
[03:17.87]Thrown in a car accident
[03:23.15]A time for art
[03:24.49]A time for living
[03:26.48]Sometimes the two can be conflicting
[03:33.06]And mama I'll meet you at Caribana
[03:36.66]Together we're the highest form of art
[03:46.65]Oh! My mother!
[03:48.12]Russian Ballerina!
[03:50.40]You were a swan but now you're swimming in the Caribbean
[03:56.95]Oh! My mother!
[03:58.41]Russian Ballerina!
[04:00.69]Nobody knows how you can live without the love of your life
[04:07.31]Oh! My mother!
[04:08.85]Russian Ballerina!
[04:10.94]Too bad your priuettes now look almost as bad as mine
[04:17.50]Oh! My mother!
[04:19.04]Russian Ballerina!
[04:21.34]Who needs that bullshit we can drink at the casino all night
[04:26.76](Everybody now!)
[04:28.21]La la la,la la la la la