Barry Manilow - Sandra

She’s a great little housewife
Oh 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 the words to her life

She says:
I swear I love my husband
I love my kids
I wanna to be like my mother
But if I haven’t done this as soon as I did
Oh, there might have been time to be me
For myself
For myself
There are so many things that she wishes
She don’t even knows what she’s missing
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
Upper that happens now and again
She might take a drink with her housework
Oh, when Michael’s kept late at the shop
A Martiny 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 wanna to be like my mother
But if I haven’t done this as soon as I did
Oh, there might have been time to be me
For myself
For myself
There are so many things that she wishes
She don’t even know what she’s missing
And that’s how she knows that she missed

Oh, they used to hold hangs at the movies
Now it’s shelled on their fevers to go
When they’ve paid for the cider and parked the car
Well, 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 risk, quite by mistake
It was real touching gold for a while

She says:
I swear I love my husband
And I love my kids
You know, I wanna to be like my mother
But if I haven’t done this as soon as I did
Oh, there might have been time to be me
For myself
For myself
There are so many things that she wishes
She don’t even know what she’s missing
And that’s how she knows that she missed