ever since i met you captured my heart
you treated me like a lady from the very start
guess i'm a little girl in her dreams
who doesn't want to see
that i have to grow older and change on my own
i want to be a singer, but go it alone
but it is so hard for me 'cause i don't want to see that

i'm too young for a man
but i'm too old for a boy
so can't we just pretend
that i'm older than i really am
but then, only little girls pretend

i put on all the make-up that i can possibly find
i'm five years older in just a minute's time
but i can't compete with the ladies that attract your kind
so i rummage through my sister's things
hoping to find something that will catch your eye
to make you change your mind
so i won't have to leave, so you won't say to me

i'm too young for a man
but i'm too old for a boy
so can't we just pretend
that i'm older than i really am
but then, only little girls pretend

i'm left out in the night
i've lost all my senses
i know this isn't right
but you've captured my defenses
i really am in love
well that's the way i feel
this game has to stop
'cause you know it can't be real

i'm too young for a man
but i'm too old for a boy
so can't we just pretend
that i'm older than i really am
but then, only little girls pretend

i know i'd make you happy
but i'm too young for a wife
love is always special but i know i can't rush life
so i'm waiting in the wings to see what life will bring
and maybe in a few years when i am wise and tall
love will light again and shine upon us all
he says i'm a little girl in her dreams
who doesn't want to see

i'm too young for a man
but i'm too old for a boy
so can't we just pretend
that i'm older than i really am
but then, only little girls pretend



"I'd have to hear it to know if it really was the Baltimore sessions. I did a song called Baltimore, I did one called Walking With You, and then I did a couple of other things around that period that were separate from that session. They were done in a church. Michael, my brother, was there - he's almost ten years older than I am - and I was about 14. Those were called, All I Have To Give, More Than Just A Friend, there was a song called Just Ellen and I can't remember the other one. I can hear it. The point is that I recorded a lot of things at that time. The Baltimore Sessions CD, I don't know if that's a tape that I did that day, or if it's an amalgamation of things done around that time. The thing I did at a wedding was something completely different - I was just being paid ten bucks to sing. The big requests then were Evergreen, We've Only Just Begun, The Wedding Song, you know. I did Baltimore in a studio, you know and I did the wedding things at a real wedding that somebody taped, probably with a terrible little tape recorder, and not just because of me, just taping the service. So it could've been a few years apart."
-- Tori; Record Collector Magazine, Nov 99