Waiting For Valentino Lyrics - Cyndi Lauper

When I was young, 

way back in Sicily 

you should have seen me 

My hair then was long 

There was this one young man 

who always came around 

and gave me this ribbon of velvet brown 

Waiting for Valentino 

His dark eyes lock on mine 

Waiting for Valentino 

Then you did what you were told 

Married a cousin I didn't know 

He'd fallen in love with my photograph 

Oh why, worked harder then I could bare 

and he never seemed to care 

I bore his only son at the end of that year 

There is a place I can slip away to 

out in the desert of sand and dune 

My she's tan; she looks like a mirage 

Someday I'll escape there like Scherazade 

Waiting for Valentino 

His dark eyes lock on mine 

Waiting for Valentino 

To carry me off through time 

I had lived long as I can 

Made three generations American 

Now my daughter takes my hand 

and whispers to me 

There is a place I can slip away to 

out in the desert of sand and dune 

My she's tan; she looks like a mirage 

Someday I'll escape there like Scherazade 

Waiting for Valentino 

His dark eyes lock on mine 

Waiting for Valentino 

To carry me off through time 

To carry me off through time 

To carry me off through time 

To carry me off through time