stack of bills on her kitchen table out go the lights and off goes the cable if she don t pay em by the 15th and it don t look like she s gonna be able two mouths to feed two jobs barely get it done a lot on her plate for a single mom at twenty one from the outside looking in you d think her world would crumble but she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel somehow she keeps gettin by the only soft shoulder she knows is on some lonely road she s going down she s going down sometimes she feels like throwing 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 gettin by friday noon parent teacher day it s johnson elementary or half a shift s pay but she wouldn t miss it for the world she looks around at all the daddy s in the room wishing her kids had one of them too this ain t how she planned it her life s going ten different ways it s off to little league and then to ballet somehow she keeps gettin by the only soft shoulder she knows in every dark cloud oh she keeps finding that silver lining sometimes she feels like throwing 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 gettin by yeah that s what keeps her gettin by 