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The Strong One Lyrics

When God made woman I wonder sometimes
If it was a flower he had in mind when he made her
A touch as gentle as a butterfly
A kiss so sweet it could stop time forever
God gave man a chance to be the kind of strength a woman needs
He was suppose to be the one to carry that load


CHORUS:
But there she goes
Baby in her arms
World on her shoulders when her day starts
Working a job that don't pay much
but she thanks God it's enough
There she is
on her own two feet
He walked out
but she's still got dreams
Trys to laugh when she feels like crying
Nobody'd blame her if she stopped trying
But she's got a heart that gives and gives
Now you tell me who the strong one is


Tonight's the first night in a while
She'll put on her makeup wearing a smile
She's going out
And everything was all planned out
but the fever that the baby's got now
It's all shot down

She gives up what she wants to do for what she has to
That's what a momma does
She'll be there like she always is
when the sun comes up

CHORUS
And there she goes
Baby in her arms
World on her shoulders when her day starts
Working a job that don't pay much
but she thanks God it's enough
There she is
on her own two feet
He walked out
but she's still got dreams
Trys to laugh when she feels like crying
Nobody'd blame her if she stopped trying
But she's got a heart that gives and gives
So you tell me who the strong one is

You tell me who the strong one is

 

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Country singer prides himself on work ethic

Wearing his trademark black cowboy hat, Black and his smooth good lucks and regular-guy voice ushered in the era of the '90s country megastar. He crossed over into pop around the same time as Garth Brooks, Travis Tritt and Alan Jackson, putting out the sentimental love song "A Better Man" in 1989, which made him the first male country singer with a No. 1 debut hit in a decade and a half. His first two albums, 1989's "Killin' Time" and 1990's "Put Yourself in My Shoes," would go platinum times five.

"He was part of a renaissance for country music at the time, where it just shifted to real songwriting," says Phyllis Stark, Nashville-based executive editor of country music for radio-info.com. "That's primarily where Clint had a huge advantage — he was a fantastic songwriter as well as a great singer. He had access to not only the best of the best Nashville songs, but his own songs, too, which were on par."

In 1991, when the record industry famously changed its retail rules, counting albums more accurately with a high-tech system known as SoundScan, country stars were immediate beneficiaries. Suddenly, Brooks was able to become a pop megastar, hitting No. 1 and starting a streak of sales dominance that would help define the decade. Black, however, says he couldn't fully take advantage. He was in the middle of a conflict with his manager, Bill Ham, over royalties and publishing, which would lead to a lawsuit.

"It was a real ugly battle, and (Ham) managed to get the record company to sue me at the same time," Black recalls. "I'm enjoying making my third album — and everybody put out their third album (with the sales boost from) SoundScan — and I just watched it go by from the sidelines.

"I'm all past it, you know," he adds. "But I do have to understand my own history in order to not repeat it."

For a while in the late '80s and early '90s, Black seemed like he was scoring a new smash every few minutes, but in fact, he recalls, he actually was taking his time. His label, RCA, wanted a new release every year, but he typically ran up to 26 months. So it wasn't especially surprising when he withdrew from the music business in 2001, when Hartman (by then his wife) gave birth to their daughter, Lily. Black wouldn't make another album until 2004. His last album of new material, 2005's "Drinkin' Songs & Other Logic," was characteristically straightforward, well-crafted and inspired by Bob Wills and James Taylor alike. Black threatens every few years to put out something new, but it keeps not happening.

In part, that's because Black's own record label, Equity, which helped break promising country band Little Big Town, went out of business in 2008. Investors are still hashing out the financial issues in court, causing further delays, he says.

"I'm free to make music — I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out," Black points out, adding that he's working on soundtrack songs for an upcoming musical, which he can't really talk about, and trying to sell his new material to record labels. "I don't think there's any rush. It's going to be quite a while before there's going to be a finished album.

"I'm one of those people that thinks things happen for a reason, and you just have to look for the reason. I've always been that way," he says. "I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do."

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Clint Black happy focus is on music, not celebrity

Lisa Hartman knew all about superstardom when she started dating Clint Black in 1990. She had portrayed rock singer Ciji Dunne on "Knots Landing," posed in big hair and skimpy swimsuits for pinup posters and was the kind of TV personality recognized on the streets.

Black, however, was just on the brink of becoming one of country music's biggest singers, having graduated from street performer in his hometown of Katy, Texas, to the Grand Ole Opry to selling 3 million copies of "Killin' Time."

"She understood a lot of what I was going through before I did," Black recalls, in a phone interview from Grass Valley, Calif., where he's on a tour of casinos and theaters. "I was surrounded by chaos. When I would get some time off, the idea of going out anywhere — a mall, you name it — was just 'No, no, I don't think so, I'm tired and I don't want any.' It was pretty overwhelming, to become a celebrity so quickly."

"She really got me out doing things in the real world again. I don't know how I would have handled that otherwise. Lisa's attitude was, she's just going to go and do things. She was famous for longer than I was, and she was able to enjoy life in spite of discomfort at being gawked at. I thought, 'I'm going to have to figure out how to do that too.' If it hadn't been for her, who knows? I may have spent all my time off secluded."Wearing his trademark black cowboy hat, Black and his smooth good lucks and regular-guy voice ushered in the era of the '90s country megastar. He crossed over into pop around the same time as Garth Brooks, Travis Tritt and Alan Jackson, putting out the sentimental love song "A Better Man" in 1989, which made him the first male country singer with a No. 1 debut hit in a decade and a half. His first two albums, 1989's "Killin' Time" and 1990's "Put Yourself in My Shoes," would go platinum times five.