What We Give For Love

In his song "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" Chris Gantry imagines a long-married woman's nostalgia as she remembers the pleasures of her youth and the boy she might have married, but didn't. He describes her as "the everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me." Marrying him meant that she sacrificed what she might have had. But she probably didn't see it that way at the time. When they married, in her eyes she was choosing the good life. Whatever she gave up, it was done in exchange for something she valued.