We All Know

She's willing to climb a ladder
Up to the highest star
That's her with a stack of blankets
In her arms
She's taking them to a family
Sleeping in their automobile
She hears the children crying
And she wants to love for real

She knows how suffering feels
We all know how suffering feels
And you know you're alive
When you taste your own blood
Open hands to the sky
With your face in the mud
We all know how suffering feels

Her mom said goodbye last winter
Sometimes she cries in the dark
She's holding her new
Baby granddaughter
Close to her heart
Her spirit was wounded by
Sacred vows broken
Beginning to heal
Her oncologist gave her good news
Now she's living to love for real

Oh, she knows
Oh, everyone knows
We laugh, we cry
We get high, we get low
Oh, don't ya know?