She reads all the ads in the paper each day And dreams about how it will be Taking vacations and buying new clothes When the hard times are over for me She sets the table and sings in the kitchen Believing we'll make it some day And if that's all it took was believing and love The hard times would all go away. When the hard times are over I'm gonna show her The good times she dreams of today She'll keep us together until things get better The hard times won't stand in her way. Sometimes she gets up alone in the night When the kids have all fallen asleep And I know she cries over things they can't have Till the hard times are over for me. So I'll keep on trying that's all I can do Taking each step as it comes Making the most of whatever we have Till the hard times are over and done. When the hard times are over I'm gonna show her The good times she dreams of today She'll keep us together until things get better The hard times won't stand in her way. She knows they'll be over some day.