I Loved Annie First

<br>Annie was a gangly little kid of 17<br>When first she saw a movie up on the big screen<br>Mom & Dad both had to vent their spleen<br>When Annie told them of her dream<br>She took the classes and she took all the diets<br>She learned to cry on cue and learned how to fight<br>Went to the theatre every Tuesday night<br>Reciting monologues in the moonlight<br>But I loved her first<br>And in my dreams, we kissed again and again<br>I loved her first<br>She ignores me now, like she did then<br>But I loved her first, nyah nyah nyah nyah, called it<br>Annie`s friends were skeptical at best<br>Seeing her rehearse, they were far from impressed<br>Even as she went to take her first screen test<br>They hoped it would make her less self-obsessed<br>She got her first part in a travelling play<br>Away from home, and she preferred it that way<br>No one else was around to have their say<br>Not that anyone`s complaining today<br>But I loved her first<br>And in my dreams, we kissed again and again<br>I loved her first<br>She ignores me now, like she did then<br>But I loved her first, nyah nyah nyah nyah<br>The parts came & went, & still she slogged on<br>Till soon the gawky teenager was gone<br>The duckling disappeared, replaced by a swan<br>A light toward which so many have since been drawn<br>I wrote her a letter that I never did mail<br>And I still buy her videos when they go on sale<br>And all her so-called friends who were so convinced she`d fail<br>Come over and try to follow her vapor trail.