Lyrics
You Healed Me
© 2021 Susan Anders/Zanna Songs
We’ve never met
Never passed on the street
But you healed me
You healed me
You never knew
About your legacy
But you healed me
You healed me
You were a motherless Virginia girl
Growing kids and tobacco was your whole world
Worked hard, died young: life’s not fair
But now part of you is everywhere
They took a scraping
Studied it carefully
Then you healed me
You healed me
The other cells they had stopped growing
Yours lived on endlessly
A mystery
A mystery
They shipped you round and found cures
From that cell piracy
Discovery from larceny
Wish I had been there in your last few days
To say thanks for the gift you didn’t know you gave
To make them treat you like the queen you are
To hold your hand when it got hard
Just know you lived on
Spreading out gracefully
Till you healed me
You healed me
We’ve never met
Never passed on the street
But you healed me
You healed me