You don't have to hold it all inside you   Or try to keep your feelings hid   You don't need to bottle your emotions   Of the way your daddy did      I can see inside you're hurtin'   Even though your eyes are dry   If you let a tear roll down your cheek   Honey, that don't mean you're weak   You're just strong enough to cry      They're not just little drops of water   That show the way you feel   They turn coal into diamonds   And iron into steel      I know you think that you'll be weaker   If a tear falls from your eye   Oh, but you don't understand   A woman needs a man   Who's is strong enough to cry      Every rock that we can lean on   It's not just shaped out of stone   It didn't get that way by settin'   Their dry as a bone      It took a million years of changin'   As the rain fell on it from the sky   You want to be that rock for me   Honey, I need you to be strong enough to cry      They're not just little drops of water   That show the way you feel   They turn coal into diamonds   And iron into steel      I know you think that you'll be weaker   If a tear falls from your eye   Oh, but you don't understand   A woman needs a man   Who's is strong enough to cry      Honey, you don't understand   A woman needs a man   That's strong enough to cry