You have asked me why the days fly by so quickly   And why each one feels no different from the last?   And you say that you are fearful for the future   And you have grown suspicious of the past      And you wonder if the dreams we shared together   Have abandoned us or we abandoned them   And you cast about and try to find new meaning   So that you can feel that closeness once again      Carry on my sweet survivor   Carry on my lonely friend   Don't give up on the dream and don't you let it end      Carry on my sweet survivor   Though you know that something's gone   For everything that matters, carry on      You remember when you felt each person mattered   When we all had to care for all was lost   But now you see believers turn to cynics   And you wonder was the struggle worth the cost      Then you see someone too young to know the difference   And a veil of isolation in their eyes   And inside you know you've got to leave them something   Or the hope for something better slowly dies      Carry on my sweet survivor   Carry on my lonely friends   Don't give up on the dream and don't you let it end      Carry on my sweet survivor   Though you know that something's gone   For everything that matters, carry on      Carry on my sweet survivor   You've carried it so long   So it may come again, carry on   Carry on, carry on