Strong

You know I think its funny, She used to call me the strong one But I don't think that 'strong' sleeps until three I don't think strong watches Ricki Lake two times a day And I don't think strong is me I'm thinking strong is faith, accepting, then learning But it can't mean understanding, because I don't understand But see, I'm trying to learn that, Well being the strong one That's a relative term [Chorus] I never was that strong To hold her as high as she needs to be held And I never was that strong To love her so much, that she'd learn to love herself And after I'de given her everything I can I bury my head in these empty hands I pray when everything falls a part The end would spring a new start Broken, God teach me some wisdom through this pain Show me the sunshine behind this cloudy head of mine And he gives me two trees, that have fallen on one another But they're perfectly balanced with eachother Now she is hangin' by her last root And he is still hanging by, well, maybe two or three So calls himself the strong one, but what he's missing Is in a codependency, she needs you to love and you just Love her to need. I think you're only as strong as her dependency [Chorus] As fait would have it. someone she knows gives her a firm foundation And the freedom to grow. Well I never gave her that and maybe that hurt the most, But you need to be needed, you need to learn to be alone. [Chorus]