It Will Never Be That Way Again

Today is the day your daughter is being released!

Once life was simple

And entre nous

I was an ordinary nothing... just like you

Oh how I loved to cook and clean

My life an open magazine

Just like every happy housewife

Way back then

But it will never be that way again

I lost the apron

I found my voice

And now I live my life onstage

I have no choice

A woman doomed to entertain

Must use applause to ease the pain

When she gets that old familiar

Housewife yen

But it will never be that way again

Do you know what it's like to lie in bed night after night fighting the urge to defrost your freezer? Or to clean your own house? But I can't! I can't! I'm a star

Now people love me

From hell to Maine

So it's goodbye to apple pie

Bonjour, champagne!

Perhaps to you this won't make sense

I'll always miss my picket fence

I had a life, not just an ego, way back when

But now I star in Broadway shows

'Cause in my veins the talent flows

This time, I'm doing it for me, mama

It can never be that way again