Stack of bills on her kitchen table 票据在她厨房的桌子堆

Out go the lights and off goes the cable 走出去的灯光和关闭进电缆

If she don't pay 'em by the 15th 如果她不支付时间由15日

And it don't look like she's gonna be able. 而且它看上去并不像她要能够。

   

Two mouths to feed, two jobs barely get it done 两个多人要供养，两份工作勉强把它做

A lot on her plate for a single mom at twenty-one 很多关于她的盘子的单亲妈妈，在21

From the outside looking in you'd think her world would crumble 从外面看，你会觉得她的世界会崩溃

But she keeps finding that light at the end of the tunnel. 但她不断发现，光在隧道的尽头。

   

Somehow she keeps gettin' by, 不知怎的，她一直刚开了通过，

The only soft shoulder she knows. 唯一柔软的肩膀，她知道。

   

Is on some lonely road she's going down, she's going down 是一些寂寞的路，她是怎么回事了，她是怎么回事了

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel but she's not 有时她感觉就像认输，但她不

No matter what she's gonna give her kids 不管是什么，她要去给她的孩子们

A better life than what she's got. 美好的生活比她有。

   

And that's what keeps her gettin' by 而这正是通过让她刚开了

Friday noon, parent teacher day 周五中午，家长教师节

It's Johnson elementary or half a shift's pay 这是约翰逊小学或半个转变的薪酬

But she wouldn't miss it for the world. 但她不会错过世界。

   

She looks around at all the daddy's in the room 她环顾四周，所有的爸爸在房间里

Wishing her kids had one of them too 希望她的孩子们有他们的一个过

This ain't how she planned it her life's going ten different ways 这不是她是如何计划好了她的生活是怎么回事十种不同的方式

It's off to little league and then to ballet 这是关到小联盟再到芭蕾

   

Somehow she keeps gettin' by 不知怎的，她通过不断刚开了

The only soft shoulder she knows. 唯一柔软的肩膀，她知道。

   

In every dark cloud, oh she, keeps finding that silver lining. 在每一片乌云，哦，她，一直找到了一线希望。

   

Sometimes she feels like throwing in the towel, but she's not 有时她感觉就像服输，但她不

No matter what she's gonna give her kids 不管是什么，她要去给她的孩子们

A better life than what she's got 比什么她有更好的生活

And that's what keeps her gettin' by. 而这正是通过让她刚开了。

   

Yeah, that's what keeps her gettin' by... 是啊，这就是通过让她刚开了...