I don't buy the lines in magazines
That tell me what I've gotta be
Don't base my life on a movie screen

Don't fit the mold society has planned

I don't need to be 19-years-old

Or starve myself for some weight I'm told
Or turn men's heads down that road
And I thank God I finally know just who I am


I ain't a movie star
They never see the view from where they are

And this old town may be as far as I'm goin'
What he'll hold tonight in his hands
He swears is so much better than

Anything this old world can show him

I'm a real live woman

In love with this man I see lyin' here next to me
Lost in the way that he's holdin'
This real live woman

In the arms of a man where I'll fall asleep knowin' there's
Nothin' on earth he loves more than
This real live woman


I work 9-5 and I can't relate
To millionaires who somehow fate

Has smiled upon and fortune made their
Common lives a better place to be


And I no longer justify
Reasons for the way that I behave
I offer no apologies

For the things that I believe and say
And I like it that way


Cause I'm a real live woman
In love with this man I see lyin' here next to me
Lost in the way that he's holdin'

This real live woman
In the arms of a man where I'll fall asleep knowin' there's
Nothin' on earth he loves more than

This real live woman