That's What Keeps Her Getting By-Tracy Byrd

[ti:That's What Keeps Her Getting By] [ar:Tracy Byrd] [al:The Truth About Men] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]That's What Keeps Her Getting By - Tracy Byrd [00:04.85]Written by：Bobby Huff/Shane Minor/Danny Wells [00:09.71]Stack of bills on her kitchen table [00:12.37] [00:13.16]Out go the lights and off goes the cable [00:16.55] [00:17.59]If she don't pay 'em by the 15th [00:19.70] [00:21.17]And it don't look like she's gonna be able [00:24.79] [00:25.85]Two mouths to feed two jobs barely get it done [00:28.86] [00:29.42]A lot on her plate for a single mom at 31 [00:32.96] [00:33.47]From the outside looking in you'd think her world would crumble [00:37.78] [00:38.53]But she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel [00:43.04] [00:43.70]Somehow she keeps getting by [00:48.55] [00:49.58]The only soft shoulder she knows [00:53.63]Is on some lonely road [00:55.80]She's going down she's going down [00:58.52] [01:00.11]Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel [01:05.78] [01:07.12]But she's not [01:08.21] [01:09.26]No matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life [01:15.12]Than what she's got [01:16.39] [01:17.17]And that's what keeps her getting by [01:19.96] [01:28.76]Friday noon parent teacher day [01:31.54] [01:32.56]It's Johnson elementary or half a shift's pay [01:35.78] [01:36.52]But she wouldn't miss it for the world [01:38.74] [01:40.74]She looks around at all the daddy's in the room [01:43.70] [01:44.84]Wishing her kids had one of them too [01:47.88] [01:48.71]This ain't how she planned it [01:50.77]Her life's going ten different ways [01:52.94] [01:53.80]It's off to little league and then to ballet [01:58.00] [01:59.17]Somehow she keeps getting by [02:03.78] [02:04.86]The only soft shoulder she knows [02:08.90]Is on some old broken road [02:11.08]She's going down she's going down [02:13.88] [02:15.40]Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel [02:21.10] [02:22.47]But she's not [02:23.59] [02:24.53]No matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life [02:30.33]Than what she's got [02:31.56] [02:32.51]And that's what keeps her getting by [02:35.23] [02:38.83]In every dark cloud [02:39.95] [02:41.71]She keeps finding that silver lining [02:46.60] [02:58.17]Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel [03:03.84] [03:05.36]But she's not [03:06.40] [03:07.19]No matter what she's gonna give her kids a better life [03:13.13]Than what she's got [03:14.44] [03:15.15]And that's what keeps her getting by [03:18.11] [03:23.21]Yeah that's what keeps her getting by