Woman of Steel

He leans on a banister starin' down the stairs

Toward the woman in gold with platinum blonde hair

Daddy's got the money, mother wears her heels

And their little girl's cold as steel

The family filters in in fours and fives

He puts out the plates and the forks and the knives

November's been bitter but let's be real

It hasn't been cold as steel

Well, the fire has died and the embers won't glow

And this chill in the air cuts to the bone

Oh, but there was a time babe was soft as silk

Now he's livin' like a villain with a woman of steel

They met in the hall, he studied her face

She pulled away as his hand touched her waist

When a copperhead bites sometimes it feels

Just as cold as steel

And uncle says the grace, they gather in the room

She grabs her plate and a silver spoon

And he's sittin' there like a sore thumb

That just won't heal next to the woman of steel

Yeah, the fire has died and the embers won't glow

And this chill in the air cuts to the bone

Oh, but there was a time babe was soft as silk

Now he's livin' like a villain with a woman of steel

The curb's cluttered with cars and trucks

He slides in his cab and cranks the heater up

Stares out the windshield toward Fayetteville

Where it's not cold as steel