Sandra — текст песни (Dusty Springfield)

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
So many things that she wishes
She don`t even know 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
Ah, but that happens now and again
Ah, 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
And, though 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
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 hands at the movies
Now it`s seldom, if ever, they go
Once you pay for the sitter, and parking 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
Well, 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
So many things that she wishes
She don`t even know what she`s missing
And that`s how she knows that she missed