INTRO Stack of bills on the kitchen table, Out go the lights and off goes the cable. If she don't pay em by the 15th, Then it don't look like she's gonna be able. Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done, A lot on the plate for a single mom of 31. From the outside lookin' in, you'd think her world would crumble, But she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel. But somehow she keeps getting by, The only soft shoulder she knows is off some old broken road, She's goin' down...she's goin' down. Sometimes she feels like throwin' 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 getting by. Friday at noon its parent/teacher day, Its Johnson Elementary or half a shift's pay, She wouldn't miss it for the world. She looks around at all the daddies in the room, Wishin' her kids had one of them too. This ain't how she planned it, her life's goin' ten different ways, Its off to little league, and then to ballet.. But somehow she keeps getting by, The only soft shoulder she knows is off some old broken road, She's goin' down...she's goin' down. Sometimes she feels like throwin' 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 getting by. In every dark cloud oh, she keeps findin' that Silver lining. INSTRUMENTAL Sometimes she feels like throwin' 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 getting by. Yeah, that's what keeps her getting by.