Joan Armatrading Follow

You've lived your life and how you survived
I'll never know people talk of hardships
What do they know what do they know?
Of the strength you had to show

To stop yourself from crying out
To keep you head above the sand
Those times when you were in dispair
When trouble seemed your only friend

Somehow you kept your spirits high
You told him straight don't call again
Now there were times, when it seemed I didn't care
Don't misjudge my silence you had my sympathy
I had sympathy and I admired how you

Stopped yourself from crying
Kept your head above the sand
When trouble seemed your only friend

Somehow you kept your spirits high
You told him straight don't call again
And now the future's looking bright
You fought alone and won the fight kept your faith

When times were hard you made it through
Trouble seemed your only friend
Somehow you kept your spirits high

You stopped yourself from crying out
You kept your head above the sand
Those times when you were in despair
Trouble seemed your only friend

Somehow you kept your spirits high
You told him straight don't call again