"don't break your back for me," she said   Without hesitation   All these things we don't need, and   Two saved up vacations      Well don't you recall mornings spent   Half naked in a fray?    Fighting over money   Wishing we could run away      Chorus   (from) washing saturdays and ironing tuesdays (x2)      Once we had just one room to share   But now we have many   But I'll work just as hard as if   We didn't have any      Well I'd relive the blunders and   Mistakes that I've made   And sacrifice the precious, useless   Money that I've saved      Chorus (for)      I could have given up hope (and)   We could have split up (but)   Boxes of laundry soap (and)   Babies that spit up   Kept us together      All of these luxuries we have   They're just ornamental   And whether we have them or not   We can still afford to be sentimental      'bout times that try us, times that make us   Work just to survive   Ties that bind us, and remind us   That we're still alive      Repeat chorus