She walks to school with the lunch she packed   Nobody knows what she's holding back   Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday   She hides the bruises with the linen and lace, oh      The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask   It's hard to see the pain behind the mask   Bearing the burden of a secret storm   Sometimes she wishes she was never born      Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone   In a world that she can't rise above   But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place   Where she's loved concrete angel      Somebody cries in the middle of the night   The neighbors hear but they turn out the light   A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate   When morning comes it will be too late      Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone   In a world that she can't rise above   But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place   Where she's loved concrete angel      A statue stands in a shaded place   An angel girl with an upturned face   A name is written on a polished rock   A broken heart that the world forgot      Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone   In a world that she can't rise above   But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place   Where she's loved concrete angel