It's a fibro house with a rip screen door
They don't have visitors anymore
The lawns un mowed and the car wont start
They've got to find some cash for that new part
It's the second best house in the second best street
They're doing their best just to make ends meet
Just to make ends meet

Jesse don't run
Sam don't fight
I'll be glad when your in bed tonight
I've been running this race since God knows when
She says, "Things would be different......
If I had my time again"

Had two kids by age eighteen
Traded school for a washing machine
Traded dreams on the boy next door
But he don't come around much anymore
He was a third rate man with a third rate heart
He pushed around right from the start
Right from the start

When the day is done and all is quiet
Under the stars she lays outside
She sees the moon and feels alone
But it's the only home that she's ever known
It's a first rate love from a first rate heart
And nothing's gonna tear her family apart
Her little home apart

Jesse don't cry it'll be alright
We'll still be here in the morning light
We're gonna run this race until the end
She says, "Some things would be different...
Well a few things could be different my child...
But nothing would be different...
If I had my time again."