Daughter-in-Law Blues

She came in with a bottle of rain

And a suitcase full of rain

Smiled through the family table

Hid the weight of every strain

Hands worn thin from sunrise

Heart worn down from holding on

Living in a house full of silence

Where she never felt she belonged

Oh, daughter-in-law, you carry the stone

Trying to keep the peace while your own world falls apart

Oh, daughter-in-law, strong through the ache

You give and you give until there's nothing left to take

She folds the clothes, she mends the cracks

She swallows what she feels

Learns to laugh when it is needed

Learns to stand when nothing heals

Every door she opens

Feels like walking into blank

Still she lights another candle

And she never speaks her shame

Oh, daughter-in-law, you carry the stone

Trying to keep the peace while your own world falls apart

Oh, daughter-in-law, strong through the ache

You give and you give until there's nothing left to take

If the night gets long, may someone finally see

All the tears she kept behind her

All the love she gave for free

She is tired, she is human

She deserves a softer road

Not just the burden of surviving

Not just the weight she's told to hold

Oh, daughter-in-law

You carry the stone

Trying to keep the peace while your own world falls apart

Oh, daughter-in-law, strong through the ache

May the dawn be kind to the life that you make