Your little hands wrapped around my finger
And it's so quiet in the world tonight
Your little eyelids flutter 'cause you're dreaming
So I tuck you in, turn on your favorite night light
Erik carried his 4 year old daughter into her room she had fallen asleep in his lap while he played the organ for her. She craddled her small porcilen doll in her arms, her doll had currly jet black hair and a pink ribbon and blue eyes with a pink rose dress. Erik laid his daughter in her small bed in her room and kissed her head her eyes fluttered open for a split second.
"Love you Daddy." She rolled over and fell back asleep.
"Love you to Rain Drop." Erik tucked her in and turned down the lamp that was hanning on the wall.
To you, everything's funny
You got nothing to regret
I'd give all I have, honey
If you could stay like that
Erik stood there and watched her for a moment. He thought of today they had played in the rafters over the stage.
"Daddy Daddy watch this!" His daughter had said.
She jumped over one of the backdrops and it to his arms. The she had a giggleing fit
Oh, darling, don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow up
Just stay this little
Oh, darling, don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow up
It could stay this simple
"Daddy." She had said when she calmed down.
"Yes Rain Drop?" He had asked her.
"I don't EVER want to grow up."
I won't let nobody hurt you
Won't let no one break your heart
No, no one will desert you
Just try to never grow up, never grow up
"I wish you didn't have to." Erik said hugging her.
You're in the car on the way to the movies
And you're mortified your mom's dropping you off
At 14, there's just so much you can't do
And you can't wait to move out someday and call your own shots
"Gus you just don't get it!" She yelled at her best friend.
"Rain I get it. My parents don't want me to do anything fun etheir." She looked at her best friend as he tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and gently kissed her on the lips.
She looked at him stunned as she pulled back then smiled and kissed him again.
But don't make her drop you off around the block
Remember that she's getting older, too
And don't lose the way that you dance around
In your PJs getting ready for school
"Misty what are we going to do with that girl?" Erik said when he walked over to his wife, after rehursales.
"I don't know Erik she gets into so much trouble. What if she gets hurt? I've really been worrying about how she has been acting."
"So have I. I have been watching her and I've noticed her and Gus have a bit of a thing for each other." Erik kind of growled he didn't like Raoul and that poor boy has him written all over It was like Raoul had taken his first love and now his daughter.
Oh, darling, don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow up
Just stay this little
Oh, darling, don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow up
It could stay this simple
No one's ever burned you
Nothing's ever left you scarred
And even though you want to
Just try to never grow up
Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room
Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home
Remember the footsteps, remember the words said
And all your little brother's favorite songs
Erik sat with his two youngest children. His daughter and son, they both had perfect skin like their mother the boy was two and he smiled as he played the piano he was every bit of his fathers musical genius. The eldest stood by the red curtain that sealed off what was the main room from her bed room.
"Night time sharpens hightens each sensation." She mumbeled as her brother played their favoriate song from the piano.
He truned and looked at the middle child smileing and they both turned to look at their father their faces smooth and flawless.
'They will one day have the biggest roles in this opera house' She muttered retreating into the big room that was hers she pulled the string the two curtains that were fringed with gold closed like the stage curtains that were on the surface.
I just realized everything I have
Is someday gonna be gone
She walked over to the Large Organ that sat in the corrner and she began to play letting her fingers fall over the keys at will playing a random sweet melody as she hummed along to it.
So here I am in my new apartment
In a big city, they just dropped me off
It's so much colder than I thought it would be
So I tuck myself in and turn my night light on
Wish I'd never grown up
I wish I'd never grown up
She sat on her bed and cried into her pillows.
Oh, I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up
Could still be little
Oh, I don't wanna grow up, wish I'd never grown up
It could still be simple
Nothing was simple for her anymore it was all hard on her.
Oh, darling, don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow up
Just stay this little
Oh, darling, don't you ever grow up, don't you ever grow up
It could stay this simple
Images of her parents and sibblings flashed thorugh her head, Gus and the other De Chagnys and Meg Nate and their small son.
Won't let nobody hurt you
Won't let no one break your heart
And even through to you want to
Please try to never grow up
She dried her eyes and dressed in her black strapless dress that came to her knees in the front and to the bottom of her calves in the back she had sowen and then pulled on a long black cloak and black lace up boots and ran up the path to box five where she fell asleep at.
Don't you ever grow up
(Never grow up)
Just never grow up