[Verse 1]
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
Up the way your daddy did
I can see inside you're hurtin'
Even though your eyes are dry
But if a tear rolls down your cheek
Honey, that don't mean you're weak
You're just strong enough to cry
[Chorus]
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 you'll be weaker
If you let a tear fall from your eyes
Oh, but you don't understand
A woman needs a man
Who's strong enough to cry
[Verse 2]
Every rock that we lean on
It isn't just shaped out of stone
It didn't get that way by sittin'
There dry as a bone
It took a million years of changin'
As the rain fell on it from the sky
So if you wanna be that rock for me
Honey, I need you to be
Strong enough to cry
[Chorus]
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 you'll be weaker
If you let a tear fall from your eyes
Oh, but you don't understand
A woman needs a man
Who's strong enough to cry
Honey, you don't understand
This woman needs a man
Who's strong enough to cry2