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
 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
 Oh, she knows
 Oh, everyone knows
 We laugh, we cry
 We get high, we get low
 Oh, don't you know
 how suffering feels
 We all know how suffering feels
 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
 We all know how suffering feels