[SweetCrusader]

~*~ Concrete Angel ~*~

She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen and lace

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear, but they turn out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it'll be too late

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

(Martina McBride song)

My love to all you concrete angels out there...

[silver_queen]

That song made me cry, Angela. Thank you for posting it.

[Rapunzel]

Martina McBride can really get to me too. The thing that gets me in that one was all the people who could have done something and none of them did.

[lenjan]

That's literally the story of my life -- people who could have helped and didn't. I try not to be bitter about it, but sometimes I do get angry.

Candy

[SweetCrusader]

I don't think anyone blames you for that, Candy.