IntroVerse 1Four a.m., the kettle's on, the kitchen light is low,Lunch packed up the night before and a long way still to go.My father worked this floor before me, thirty winters straight.Said, "The work won't say it loves you, but it keeps food on your plate."ChorusI don't break easy. Go on, lay it on and see.I've been out in worse than this, and worse ain't done with me.Let the rain have the morning, let the wind have its say -I don't break easy. I bend and I stay.Verse 2We patched the roof in August where the shingles wouldn't hold,The jar above the icebox has fewer bills to fold.But my wife hums making supper, and the kid reads to me at night;With a house that keeps on laughing, I would say we're doing right.ChorusI don't break easy. Go on, lay it on and see.I've been out in worse than this, and worse ain't done with me.Let the rain have the morning, let the wind have its say -I don't break easy. I bend and I stay.BridgeThere's a crack in the front walk where the January froze,Been there since my father's day - and that's as far as it goes.Some things give, some things hold, some bow beneath the weight.I've been bone-tired and beaten, but I'm still here standing straight.Final ChorusI don't break easy. Go on, lay it on and see.I've been out in worse than this, and worse ain't done with me.Let the rain have the morning, let the wind have its say -I don't break easy. I bend and I stay.OutroNo, I don't break easy. I bend and I stay.
