I am in a foreign world

They speak a language of their own

Nobody knows where I have come from Daddy

I can't help but feel alone

I am in a foreign world

I am different I am strange

I know that I should try to fit in somehow

But I don't think that I can change

And I know you won't believe it

I just wanna be like other girls

Wear fancy shoes like other girls

Write a literary masterpiece

For scholars to peruse

Like other girls

Sallie McBride is my best friend

I told her that my folks had died

'Cause I can't tell her where I come from Daddy

Is that the same as having lied

For I have shut out the remembrance

'Cause I just wanna be like other girls

Make lemon pies like other girls

Cure disease and write a symphony

And win the nobel prize

Like other girls

I bought an evening dress

Oh glory be

You can't imagine how it feels

Dressed in gingham all your life

Wearing hand-me-downs

From girls who didn't like you

It takes it toll

It takes it toll

The bitterness of wearing your enemies' clothes

Eats into your soul

I am in a foreign world

I am in a foreign world

I am different I am strange

I know I should try to be

I know that I should try to fit in somehow

But I don't think that I can change

And I know you won't believe it

But I just wanna be like other girls

Get all dressed up like other girls

Become a scientist a motorist

A suffragette a Methodist

A Fabian a Freudian

The class valedictorian

Or what else

Heaven knows

Like other girls

Like other girls

Like other girls