He hasn't seen a drop of rain for months it seems   Rollin' river is nothing but a trickling stream   The crops are dying in the harsh sunlight   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 in the street so mean   Just twelve weeks along and she's got a life inside   Says she's never ever felt so alone   She walks in the shelter, they say "welcome home"      And we carry on   When our lives come undone   We carry on   Cause there's promise in the morning 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      It's the family that grieves for a lost loved one   It's the soldier who won't leave til the job is done   It's the addict trying to turn his life around   It's picking yourself off the ground when you've been knocked down      And we carry on   When our lives come undone   We carry on   Cause there's promise in the morning sun   We carry on   As the dark surrenders to the dawn   We were born to overcome      We carry on   When our lives come undone   We carry on   Cause there's promise in the morning sun   We carry on   As the dark surrenders to the dawn   We were born to overcome   We carry on      He stands in the field, cooled by the winds of change   She smiles as her baby moves and it starts to rain