Housewife - Leon Russell

Well you’re stranded in the kitchen

The kids are gone to school

It’s oh so hard to follow all the rules

The children got their friends, your husband’s playing cards

And all that housework seems so hard

Forgotten in the bedroom as you listen to him sleep

You lay down in the night light crying

Too scared to take a lover

Too much in love to cheat

And you think about your life out on the street

Well the housewife is a hard life

Long days and lonely nights

Yes a housewife is a hard life

Darling I’m thinking of you tonight

What about the dream that never never will come true

Darling no one knows that special person that’s trapped inside of you

You’re waiting for tomorrow, you hope he’ll notice you

And all the special little things you do for him

'Cause all you really ask is some real security

And a honeymoon that never ends

Remember when we were friends

But it seems he’s always working or out there with the boys

You’re always sitting home without a choice

The kids are having nightmares that daddy’s gone away

So you send them down to Grandma’s house to stay

Well the housewife is a hard life

Long days and long and lonely nights

Yes a housewife is a hard life

But I’m thinking of you tonight

As you sit there listening

I’m thinking of you tonight