It takes some hellfire to forge the steel When life tries to break your back An iron will for the bones to heal But in the same place you will not crack Make peace with the blinding pain Run like the wind through the driving rain Hard luck and trouble Rising from the rubble Makes you stronger at the broken places It's a song of survival The moment of arrival A heart gets stronger at the broken places It takes a river running to the ocean To turn a mountain to a rolling stone It takes the highest kind of deep devotion To make this love that we're standing on You gotta run through the blackest dark To see the light of thousand stars Hard luck and trouble Rising from the rubble Makes you stronger at the broken places It's a song of survival The moment of arrival A heart gets stronger at the broken places Right now's about where you are It ain't about where you've been Don't waste it on a broken heart You're gonna learn to love again The weight of the world might lay you low But it ain't gonna break you once you know Hard luck and trouble Rising from the rubble Makes you stronger at the broken places It's a song of survival The moment of arrival A heart gets stronger at the broken places At the broken places At the broken places Hard luck and trouble Rising from the rubble Makes you stronger at the broken places It's a song of survival The moment of arrival Makes you stronger at the broken places