Meadows - The Dove lyrics

How do you find the strength
To pick yourself up, to carry on?
To look that boy in the eyes, day after day
And say "Everything is okay"?

How do you come back to a place where there
Once was peace? Where there
Was joy in family? But with him gone
It just brings her to her knees

She had nowhere to run, from her situation
One half of the whole now gone
She was left to raise her sons all alone

Without any time to grieve
She just rolled up her sleeves
(All alone) she stayed strong, she picked up
She moved on she always came back
Her broken heart for her broken home
Dark was the day, followed by night

Those tired legs dragged in
With restless eyes
Forced to fight for survival
She found a way to provide
She worked two jobs, and sold her rings
To the pawn shop ambushed by fear
She was in the corner
But she stood her ground
She couldn’t retreat any further

She became like the dove
She was the dove that
Brought the Olive Branch
Searching for a place that she could rest
She was the hope for tomorrow
She cried, "Our Father, who art in Heaven
Give us the strength to live today god
Help us carry on"