That's What Keeps Her Getting By

Stack of bills on her kitchen table

Out go the lights and off goes the cable

If she don't pay 'em by the 15th

And it don't look like she's gonna be able

Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done

A lot on her plate for a single mom of twenty-one

From the outside looking in you'd think her world would crumble

But she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel

But somehow she keeps gettin' by the only soft shoulder she knows

Is on some lonely road she's going down, she's going down

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel

But she's not, no matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life

Than what she's got and that's what keeps her gettin' by

Friday noon, parent teacher day

It's Johnson elementary or half a shifts pay

But she wouldn't miss it for the world

She looks around at all the daddy's in the room

Wishing her kids had one of them too

This ain't how she planned it, her life's going ten different ways

It's off to little league and then to ballet

But somehow she keeps gettin' by the only soft shoulder she knows

Is on some lonely road she's going down, she's going down

And sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel

But she's not, no matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life

Than what she's got and that's what keeps her gettin' by

In every dark cloud, oh she, keeps finding that silver lining

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel

But she's not, no matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life

Than what she's got and that's what keeps her gettin' by

Yeah, that's what keeps her gettin' by