You Could Have Been a Roosevelt

Out into the world

With all the confidence and grace

That luck instills

Each and every girl

With dresses pressed

And faces fresh as daffodils

This could be us

But those were not the cards

That we were dealt

You're doomed to be a Kennedy

When you could have been a Roosevelt

Out into the world

You're sailing into life upon a glassy sea

Flags and sails unfurled

What must it be to be so young and whole and free

This could be us but we're the graves

At which our fathers knelt

You're doomed to be a Kennedy

When you could have been a Roosevelt

And we're glad

We can see in them versions

Of the life that we almost had

Out into the world

Where certain things will always be beyond

Our scope

Just to be a girl

With Jean Nate and Pink Camay

And Yardley Soap

This could be us

But there was just a trust we never felt

It's hard to be a Kennedy

When you could have been a Roosevelt

It's hard to be a Kennedy

When you could have been a Roosevelt