when times are the worst you see who you ve got you know what is real and you find out what is not i thought i had something but now i hurt so bad you think you have friends that you don t really have oh i m a fragile tough girl break me if you can but i m a fragile tough girl i m a fragile tough girl steady as a tree i m a fragile tough girl and life is messy everyone has a ladder but at the top it s just another one none of it will matter in the end if you don t love someone the wounds that hurt the most are the wounds you cannot see i thought for sure when i needed you you d be here for me chorus repeat well you thought you were so wise to tell me i d grow from all the pain and yet you were never here for me even when i called your name i can take a slap like the best of them but when it hurts too much to feel i just dress my heart up in these bandages of steel oh i m a fragile tough girl break me if you can but i m a fragile tough girl i m a fragile tough girl steady as a tree i m a fragile tough girl so don t mess with me don t mess with me cause i m a fragile tough girl oh i m a fragile tough girl steady as a tree i m a fragile tough girl and life is messy