Simile #2

Concrete Angel
by Martina McBride

She walks to school with a 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 burdon 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 lights;
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;
Her 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

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Concrete Angel by Martina McBride shares a story where a young girl feels very alone and uncared for. She gets beaten at home and holding back the pain, she also she wished she were never born. Although her troubles and tribulations almost keep knocking her down, she tries with all her might to keep her head up “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”. An example of why I picked this song to analyze and also include a simile is because the quote “She stands as hard as a stone”. She soon realizes she obviously can’t stand as hard as stone and she begins to tumble down which would foreshadow her death.