Concrete Angel

[Lisa]

She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holding back
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen and lace

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 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 neighbours hear, but they turn out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it'll 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 shaded place
An angel girl 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 dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

(Martina McBride)

[DLMURL="http://youtube.com/watch?v=QDm03Foq2T0&feature=related"]The song[/DLMURL]

 

[2quilt]

That could have been me.

 

[Lisa]

It's heart-breaking isn't it.

The song is about a child who died from abuse. The boy in the video is her friend. As the video plays through it becomes apparant that he is an angel to be there for her just before her death. At her funeral it shows the little boy and girl hug, and running off the play with other children, suggesting all the children died of abuse, and have now flown to a place where they are loved. This song was part of a campaign to stop child abuse. All types of abuse.

This song is about the only thing that will bring any emotion to the surface in me. Because of what it's about, and the reality of it.

Also every syllable means something to me, and my life.

 

[upstream]

I don't recal many times in my life when I cried... but this video moved me to tears.

 

[Cindy]

This strummed the strings in my soul. I too am a concrete angel, still alive and frozen solid some days and others thawing.

 

[pandora]

Let the crying commence!!!! That was sad....I have heard it, today it brought the tears.