It Will Never Be That Way Again

Lyrics

[SYLVIA, spoken] Today is the day your daughter is being released! [GINGER] 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 [GINGER, spoken] 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 [GINGER] 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 [GINGER, spoken] This time, I'm doing it for me, mama [GINGER] It can never be that way again