That's What Keeps Her Getting By Lyrics - Byrd Tracy

(Bobby Huff/Shane Minor/Danny Wells) 

Stack of bills on her kitchen table 

Out go the lights and off goes the cable 

If she dont pay em by the 15th 

And it dont look like shes gonna be able 

Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done 

A lot on her plate for a single mom at 21 

From the outside looking in youd think her world would crumble 

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

Somehow she keeps getting by 

The only soft shoulder she knows 

Is on some lonely road 

Shes going down, shes going down 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not 

No matter what shes gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what shes got 

And thats what keeps her getting by 

Friday noon, parent teacher day 

Its Johnson elementary or half a shifts pay 

But she wouldnt miss it for the world 

She looks around at all the Daddys in the room 

Wishing her kids had one of them too 

This aint how she planned it; her lifes going ten different ways, 

Its off to little league and then to ballet 

Somehow she keeps getting by 

The only soft shoulder she knows 

Is on some lonely road 

Shes going down, shes going down 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not 

No matter what shes gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what shes got 

And thats what keeps her getting by 

In every dark cloud 

She keeps finding that silver lining 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not 

No matter what, shes gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what shes got 

And thats what keeps her getting by 

Stack of bills on her kitchen table 

Out go the lights and off goes the cable 

If she dont pay em by the 15th 

And it dont look like shes gonna be able 

Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done 

A lot on her plate for a single mom at 21 

From the outside looking in youd think her world would crumble 

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

Somehow she keeps getting by 

The only soft shoulder she knows 

Is on some lonely road 

Shes going down, shes going down 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not 

No matter what shes gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what shes got 

And thats what keeps her getting by 

Friday noon, parent teacher day 

Its Johnson elementary or half a shifts pay 

But she wouldnt miss it for the world 

She looks around at all the Daddys in the room 

Wishing her kids had one of them too 

This aint how she planned it; her lifes going ten different ways, 

Its off to little league and then to ballet 

Somehow she keeps getting by 

The only soft shoulder she knows 

Is on some lonely road 

Shes going down, shes going down 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not 

No matter what shes gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what shes got 

And thats what keeps her getting by 

In every dark cloud 

She keeps finding that silver lining 

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but shes not 

No matter what, shes gonna give her kids a better life 

Than what shes got 

And thats what keeps her getting by