No Man's Land

(John Scott Sherrill&Steve Seskin) That house on the hill is long gone Now she's livin' in a trailer with an astroturf lawn Got three little kids and no one to help Tryin' to be Momma and Daddy all by herself It's hard to hold down the fort when you're holdin' down a job She'd rob Peter to pay Paul but he's already been robbed She gets the food on the table and the clothes off the lines She'd break down and cry but she doesn't have time She's gotta be strong, life goes on Though it's nothin' like she had planned She's gonna be OK gonna find a way Livin' in no man's land Every now and then late at night She thinks of how it would feel to hold someone tight And there's a guy down at work he keeps callin' her up But she ain't ready for none of that stuff She's still siftin' through the ashes of a love that's been and gone Lookin' for a clue, tryin' to find out what went wrong It ain't always easy, but she knows she's gotta try Every time she looks into her babies' eyes She's gotta be strong, life goes on Though it's nothin' like she had planned