There's a picture of a happy couple

In a frame on a mantle in a house

Piece by piece they put their world together

Some kids a mortage and a pair of wedding vows

She's a mother and a working woman

He sweats 9 to 5 with big dreams in his head

There's too much month at the end of the money

Wolf's at the door and the bankbook's in the red

I guess every fairy tale has a monster underneath the bed



Whatever happened to the Prince and Cinderella

That wide-eyed boy and girl

What happens after happy- ever-after

Love in the real world



She leaves him notes on the refrigerator

He phones in messages to say he's working late

So hard to find a tender moment together

So many modern ways to miscommunicate

Guess every honey moon has and experation date



Whatever happened to the Prince and Cinderella

That wide-eyed boy and girl

What happens after happy- ever-after

Love in the real world



That old photograph

May be faded and worn

But when illusions die

True love will cary on



What ever happened to the Prince and Cinderella

That wide-eyed boy and girl

They're graduatin' from happy-ever-after

To love in the real world



What happens after happy-ever-after

Love in the real world



There's a picture of a happy couple

In a frame on a mantle in a house