She's a great little housewife
Though sometimes she talks like a fool
But she helps at the store in the holiday rush
And she picks up the kids after schoolenter added
And she puts down the phoneenter deleted
when her husband comes homeenter deleted
And she changes from mother to wife
'Til she feels the words hanging between them
And she hangs by her words to her life

She says I says, “I swear I love my husband,enter deleted
I love my kids
I wanted to be like my mother
But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did
OhOh, there might have been time to be me
For for myself, for myself myself”

There's so many things that she wishes
She don't even know what she's missin'
And that's how she knows that she missed
She'sAnd she's a sweetheart, except when she's moody
It's hard to get through to her then
Depressed for a whileenter deleted
when the youngest was born
OhOh, but that happens now and again

She might take a drink with the housework
Or when Michael's kept late at the shop
A Martini martini or two before dinner
But she always knows when to stop

She says I swear says, “God, I love my husbandenter deleted
and I love my kids
You knowAnd though I wanted to be like my mother
But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did
OhOh, there might have been time to be me
For for myself, for myself myself”

There's so many things that she wishes
She don't even know what she's missin'enter deleted
And that's how she knows that she missed
OhOh, they used to hold hands at the movies
Now it's seldom if ever they go
Once you've paid for the sitterenter deleted
and parkin' the car
There's no money left for the show

She was doing the dishes
When a glass fell and broke on the tile
And she cut her wrist (quite quite by mistake) mistake
It was real touch and go for a while

She says Oh God says, “God, I love my husbandenter deleted
and I love my kids
You know I wanted to be like my, my mother
But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did
OhOh, there might have been time to be me
For for myself, for myself myself"

There's so many things that she wishes
She don't even know what she's missin'enter deleted
And that's how she knows that she missed