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Sandra Lyrics

Artist: Barry Manilow
Album: Barry Manilow II

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

Comments/Interpretations

by nea larry on 11/19/2008 12:57am
when it was first aired

by apple on 3/17/2009 11:25pm
i love this song because it talks about motherhood and how my mother felt with my being naughty.

by ken[squared] on 3/9/2010 1:53am
i really lyk this song

by Nui Homrod on 6/26/2013 4:12pm
Such a nice song. I dedicate this to my ex-wife. I still love her so much.
As they say we have the capacity to love many people in a lifetime, loving one never takes away from loving another.

by Dsay on 4/9/2017 10:37am
I like this song ,because its happen related to me

by nonie on 5/26/2017 11:25pm
i love you mom.. missin you each day!!