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Ugly Little Girl

ABOUT THE SONG:

"Ugly Little Girl" is about praying to God and everything holy, that the one you are madly in love with will love you back, even though you feel there's nothing about yourself to be loved. I realized years after writing the song, that it wasn't that I was un-lovable or "ugly", but that the feelings I held so long for that boy were so immense, that everything else (namely me and anything I did or said) just seemed mundane, boring and generally unattractive TO ME. When you don't think much of yourself, it's pretty hard for someone else to. I wouldn't be twelve years old again for anything in the world!

What ever happened to that boy? I think of him every day, I still dream of him at night. Oh yeah- and he usually calls me on his way home so I know when to expect him for dinner.

LYRICS:

UGLY LITTLE GIRL
Words & Music by Heather Little
©2005

After twelve or thirteen years
Being one of the boys
One of those same boys stole my heart
Invisible as ever I hid my starry eyes
So as not to show that boy what he had
And in a funny kind of way it made me mad

Because every time he’d come around
I’d feel myself turn inside out
And my heart would open up
And fill with sad sweet love, as I’d become

Some ugly little girl no boy would ever marry
No one would care about
No one would love
No one would love

How my heart just overflowed
Everytime I’d see a bicycle in the yard out by the road
But only once or twice was it you
And only in my dreams you loved me too
And always in my heart did I pray
For our someday

Summers came and went
And I was far from home
But I returned and found you still the same
Irresistible as ever
So I hid my starry eyes
So you would not recognize my loving gaze
And I couldn’t think of one smart thing to say

Because every time you’d walk in
I’d see myself from the outside in
And my heart would open up
Like I had not grown up and I’d become

Some ugly little girl
No boy would ever marry
No one would care about
No one would love
No one would love

How my heart just overflowed
Every time I’d see a big, white Ford
Come riding down my road
But only once or twice was it you
And only in my dreams you loved me too
And always in my heart did I pray
For our someday

Because every time you’d walk in
I’d see myself from the outside in
And my heart would open up
And fill with sad sweet love, as I’d become

Some ugly little girl
No boy would ever marry
No one would care about
No one would love
But someone will love

How my heart will overflow
On the day the one who’ll love me too
Comes riding down my road
And we’ll live in love forever and always
In our someday