STEEL IN HER BONES

Her dad passed when was somewhere between being a woman and a teen
She wanted to hide and in her tears, she wanted to howl and scream
But she held steady despite it seeming her world was falling apart
‘Cause she needed to tend to her others, and cradle her mama’s broken heart

She could do it because she was born with steel in her bones

She later married, but not well, thеn one night the abuse camе down
She grabbed her gear and made out for safer, high ground
It added two hours to her commute, left her tired, needing to cry
But she didn’t buckle to the betrayal, just kept on, chin high

She moved on because she still had steel in her bones

You might not think, behind the sweetness and grace
Under her endless kindness, that ever-smiling face
Strength that most will never own
Because they don’t have the steel in her bones

The her mama died, her family reached out to break her fall
There was nobody she loved more, now nobody she could call
So she wear a locket with some ashes, takes her around the world
Living her life better than most despite what fate tried to do to her

She pass down to her children the steel in her bones