Steel in Your Spine

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I’ve never understood / How you turned out so good

With all that you’ve had to endure

No-one expected you / To make the best of you

The deck stacked against you, for sure

The more that I learn / The more I admire

How you never got burned being forged in the fire

CHORUS An ordinary mortal would have quit by now

With a life like a field full of mines

You’re human, I know,  Only muscle and bone (alt: Made of muscle and bone)

But you must have steel in your spine

VERSE 2:  You never talk about / When you first figured out

That you’d have to go it alone

Breaks my heart to picture you / A child hiding out of view

So young to fight on your own, Still here you stand / Still here you are

Igniting the world with your luminous heart

BRIDGE:  And that would explain how you never admit any pain

So let me just say, that child has a lot to be proud of

But no longer needs to keep the world at bay