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



(oh oh)



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



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Through the wind and the rain

She stands hard as a stone

In her world that she can 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



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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



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