Greatest Hits is the first compilation
album by American country music singer Martina
McBride, issued by RCA Nashville in 2001. In addition to
chronicling the greatest hits of her career at the time, it includes four new
songs, all of which were released as singles. The compilation reached number 1
on Top Country Albums and received a
Quadruple-platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) on December 12, 2018.
Martina Mariea McBride (née Schiff,
born July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer-songwriter
and record producer. She is known for her soprano singing
range and her country pop material.
McBride was born
in Sharon, Kansas, and relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1989. She signed
to RCA Recors in
1991, and made her debut the following year as a neo-traditionalist country
singer with the single, "The Time Has Come". Over
time, she developed a pop-styled crossover sound,
similar to Shania Twain and Faith Hill,
and had a string of major hit singles on the Billboard country
chart and occasionally on the adult contemporary chart. Five of these singles
went to No. 1 on the country chart between 1995 and 2001, and one peaked at No.
1 on the adult contemporary chart in 2003.
McBride has fourteen studio albums, two greatest hits compilations, one "live" album, as well as two additional compilation albums. Eight of her studio albums and two of her compilations have an RIAA Gold certification, or higher. In the U.S., she has sold over 14 million albums. In addition, McBride has won the Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist of the Year award four times (tied with Reba McEntire for the third-most wins) and the Academy of Country Music's "Top Female Vocalist" award three times. She is also a 14-time Grammy Award nominee.
She walks to school with the lunch
She packed
Nobody knows what she's
Holdin' back
Wearin' the same dress
She wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with linen
And lace
The teacher wonders but she
Doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain
Behind the mask
Bearing the burden
Of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was
Never born
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel
Somebody cries in the middle
Of the night
The neighbors hear, but they turn
Out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands
Of fate
When morning comes
It'll be too late
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel
A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In her world that she can rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where
She's loved
Concrete angel.
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