That's What Keeps Her Getting By

(Bobby Huff/Shane Minor/Danny Wells)

Stack of bills on her kitchen table
Out go the lights and off goes the cable
If she dont pay em by the 15th
And it dont look like shes gonna be able
Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done
A lot on her plate for a single mom at 21
From the outside looking in youd think her world would crumble
But she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel

Somehow she keeps getting by
The only soft shoulder she knows
Is on some lonely road
Shes going down, shes going down
Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not
No matter what shes gonna give her kids a better life
Than what shes got
And thats what keeps her getting by

Friday noon, parent teacher day
Its Johnson elementary or half a shifts pay
But she wouldnt miss it for the world
She looks around at all the Daddys in the room
Wishing her kids had one of them too
This aint how she planned it; her lifes going ten different ways,
Its off to little league and then to ballet

Somehow she keeps getting by
The only soft shoulder she knows
Is on some lonely road
Shes going down, shes going down
Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not
No matter what shes gonna give her kids a better life
Than what shes got
And thats what keeps her getting by

In every dark cloud
She keeps finding that silver lining

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not
No matter what, shes gonna give her kids a better life
Than what shes got
And thats what keeps her getting by
Stack of bills on her kitchen table
Out go the lights and off goes the cable
If she dont pay em by the 15th
And it dont look like shes gonna be able
Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done
A lot on her plate for a single mom at 21
From the outside looking in youd think her world would crumble
But she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel

Somehow she keeps getting by
The only soft shoulder she knows
Is on some lonely road
Shes going down, shes going down
Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not
No matter what shes gonna give her kids a better life
Than what shes got
And thats what keeps her getting by

Friday noon, parent teacher day
Its Johnson elementary or half a shifts pay
But she wouldnt miss it for the world
She looks around at all the Daddys in the room
Wishing her kids had one of them too
This aint how she planned it; her lifes going ten different ways,
Its off to little league and then to ballet

Somehow she keeps getting by
The only soft shoulder she knows
Is on some lonely road
Shes going down, shes going down
Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not
No matter what shes gonna give her kids a better life
Than what shes got
And thats what keeps her getting by

In every dark cloud
She keeps finding that silver lining

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not
No matter what, shes gonna give her kids a better life
Than what shes got
And thats what keeps her getting by