He hasn't seen a drop of rain for months it seems The roll n river is nothing but a tricklin stream The crops are dyin in the harsh sun light The dust on his tongue is dry The fatted calf is down to skin and bones We carry on Alone in the city and she's only seventeen The boy left her black and blue on the streets so mean Just twelve weeks along and she's got a life inside Says she never ever felt so alone She walks in the shelter, they say welcome home CHOURUS: And we carry on, when our lives come undone We carry on, 'cause there's promise in the mornin' sun We carry on, as the dark surrenders to the dawn We were born to overcome We carry on Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells The happy endings and the fairy tales Is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams we carry on Carry on... It's the family that grieves for a lost loved one Its the soldier who wont leave 'til the job is done its the addict trying to turn his life around its pickin' yourself up off the ground when you've been knocked down repeat chourus 2x We carry on Carry on... He stands in the field, cooled by the winds of change she smiles as her baby moves and it starts to rain