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She's a great little housewife |
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Though sometimes she talks like a fool |
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But she helps at the store in the holiday rush |
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And she picks up the kids after school |
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And she puts down the 'phone |
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When her husband comes home |
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And she changes from mother to wife |
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'Til she feels the words hanging between them |
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And she hangs by her words to her life |
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She says.... |
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I swear I love my husband |
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I love my kids |
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I wanted to be like my mother |
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But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did |
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Oh, there might have been time to be me for myself, for myself |
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So many things that she wishes |
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She don't even know what she's missing |
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And that's how she knows that she missed |
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She's a sweetheart except when she's moody |
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It's hard to get through to her then |
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Depressed for a while when the youngest was born |
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Ah, but that happens now and again |
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Ah, she might take a drink with the housework |
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Or when Michael's kept late at the shop |
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A martini or two before dinner |
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But she always knows when to stop |
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She says.... |
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I swear I love my husband |
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And I love my kids |
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And, though I wanted to be like my mother |
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But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did |
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Oh, there might have been time to be me for myself, for myself |
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So many things that she wishes |
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She don't even know what she's missing |
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And that's how she knows that she missed |
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Oh, they used to hold hands at the movies |
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Now it's seldom, if ever, they go |
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Once you pay for the sitter, and parking the car |
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There's no money left for the show |
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She was doing the dishes |
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When a glass fell and broke on the tile |
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And she cut her wrist, quite by mistake |
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It was real touch and go for a while |
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She says.... |
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Oh God, I love my husband |
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And I love my kids |
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Well, I wanted to be like my mother |
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But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did |
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Oh, there might have been time to be me for myself, for myself |
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So many things that she wishes |
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She don't even know what she's missing |
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And that's how she knows that she missed |
