You don't have to hold it all inside you
Or try to keep your feelings hid
You don't need to bottle your emotions
Of the way your daddy did

I can see inside you're hurting
Even thou your eyes are dry
If you let a tear roll down your cheek
Honey, that don't mean you're weak
Your just strong enough to cry

They're not just little drops of water
That show the way you feel
They turn coal into diamonds and iron into steel

I know you think that you'll be weaker
If a tear falls from your eye
Oh, but you don't understand a woman needs a man
Who's strong enough to cry

Every rock that we can lean on
It's not just shaped out of stone
It didn't get that way by setting
Their dry as a bone
It took a million years of changing
As the rain fell on it from the sky
You want to be that rock for me
Honey, I need you to be strong enough to cry

They're not just little drops of water
That show the way you feel
They turn coal into diamonds and iron into steel

I know you think that you'll be weaker
If a tear falls from your eye
Oh, but you don't understand a woman needs a man
Who's strong enough to cry
Honey, you don't understand a woman needs a man
Who's strong enough to cry