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Concrete Angel by Martina McBride

She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holding back
Wearing the (1)________ dress she wore yesterday
She (2)__________ the bruises with the linen and (3)________ (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
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a (4)__________ 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 (5)________ turn out the light
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it will be too late
Through the wind and the rain
She stands (6)________ as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams (7)________ her wings
And she flies to a place
Where she's loved
Concrete angel

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel (8)________ 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 (9)____________ give her wings
And she (10)__________ to a place
Where she's loved
Concrete Angel

Answers:
(1) same(2) hides(3) lace(4) world(5) they(6) hard(7) give(8) girl(9) dreams(10) flies