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Intro

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 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 school

And she puts down the phone when her husband comes home

 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 swear I love my husband, I love my kids

 I wanted to be like my mother

 But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did

 Oh there might have been time to be me

For myself, for 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's a sweetheart, except when she's moody

 It's hard to get through to her then

 Depressed for a while when the youngest was born

 Oh 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 or two before dinner

 But she always knows when to stop

 She says I swear I love my husband and I love my kids

 You know I wanted to be like my mother

 But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did

 Oh there might have been time to be me

For myself, for 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

 Oh they used to hold hands at the movies

 Now it's seldom if ever they go

 Once you've paid for the sitter 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 by mistake)

 It was real touch and go for a while

 She says Oh God I love my husband 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

 Oh there might have been time to be me

For myself, for 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