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Concrete Angel by Martina McBride

She walks to school (1)________ the lunch she packed
Nobody knows (2)________ she's holding back
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday
She (3)__________ the bruises with the linen and lace (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 world (4)________ she can't (5)________ above
But her (6)____________ 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 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 hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place
Where she's loved
Concrete angel

A statue stands in a (7)____________ place
An angel (8)________ with an upturned face
A name is (9)______________ 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 dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place
Where she's loved
Concrete Angel

Answers:
(1) with(2) what(3) hides(4) that(5) rise(6) dreams(7) shaded(8) girl(9) written