She came to Nashville with a suitcase full of hope,Seventeen and fearless, thought she'd never have to cope,With rejection letters piling up beside her single bed,While the city lights kept twinkling overhead.Chorus: Neon signs and broken dreams light up the honky-tonk,Every girl's a superstar until the money's gone,She's waiting tables at the diner, singing lullabies,To the ghost of what she thought would be her prize.Three years later she's still serving coffee black,Writing songs on napkins, wondering if she'll ever get back,To that girl who thought the world was waiting just for her,Now she's just another face that fame forgot for sure.Chorus: Neon signs and broken dreams light up the honky-tonk,Every girl's a superstar until the money's gone,She's waiting tables at the diner, singing lullabies,To the ghost of what she thought would be her prize.But Tuesday night at Murphy's Bar she takes the little stage,Pours her heart into the microphone, turns another page,And the crowd goes quiet listening to her guitar weep,Sometimes dreams don't die, they just learn to sleep.Chorus: Neon signs and broken dreams light up the honky-tonk,Every girl's a superstar until the money's gone,She's waiting tables at the diner, singing lullabies,To the ghost of what she thought would be her prize.Bridge: There's a man there in the corner with a business card,Says he likes her style of singing, knows it's been real hard,Maybe dreams don't always die the way we think they do,Sometimes they just take a different route to finding you.Final Chorus: Neon signs and second chances light up Murphy's Bar,Every girl's still got a shot at being a star,She's done waiting tables for her dreams to come alive,Tonight she's gonna let that sleeping dream revive.Yeah, let that dream revive.
