From the recording Other People's Lives

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Terra Spencer - vocals, guitar
Jake Smith - bass
Steve Reid - trumpet
Sarah Kasprzak - French horn

Lyrics

You love to act, but I can’t act my age
And I’ve got no taste for curtains unless they’re hanging on a stage
I’ve got no mind for fashion and I don’t do my hair
I’m not the kind of girl inclined to care

I don’t know the names of garden flowers
And I don’t make good coffee, I don’t have those superpowers
Dust and dishes settle ‘round our place
And your work shirts have more wrinkles than my face

I know I'm not like other people’s wives
With supper set to simmer as they work their 9-to-5
They don’t waste time writing songs about other people’s lives
I know I’m not like other people’s wives

I never feel I am where I should be
My woes and worries would be through if there were two of me
One to work out in the cold burying the dead
The other making love and baking bread

I know I'm not like other people’s wives
With supper set to simmer as they work their 9-to-5
They don’t waste time writing songs about other people’s lives
I know I’m not like other people’s wives

I can’t hold a mop and broom
While I play guitar down in the music room
Get the groceries, change the bed
No, I’m no use to you when there’s a song stuck in my head

Darling, I won’t blame you if you go
If you want to buy a ticket to another woman’s show
But before you do I ask one little thing
Just sit a while and smile when I sing

I know you’re not like other people’s men
Who only say I love you every now and then
Although there is no contest you are still a perfect ten
I know you’re not like other people’s men