Three Women

There's a light in the kitchen, there's a glass on the stand Three women round the table and they're holding hands They're care taking the birthings, bringing food when they can They're easin' the leavin' and they're holding hands Love can get tangled and jumbled sometimes You can lose your way in this world, you can lose your mind But there's something love in which I can depend It's the strength in women, holding hands The night can be dark, so dark and wild And life burns like a diamond It's unbearably hard But it's sweeter than honesty, right from the jar Your eyes have the look of some different place You've got one foot in heaven and one still in this land So we breathe it in deep and we let it out slow We're holding up up while you're letting us go There's a free falling feeling I'm lighter than air And home burns like a beacon in your eyes But somehow we get anchored somehow we get by Here's to the women who bind the wounds tight Here's to the ones who sit talking half of the night Here's to the love and the life that they mend And here's to the strength in women holding hands And here's to the strength in women holding hands And here's to the strength in women holding hands --- Three Women - Carrie Newcomer