(Peter YarrowBarry MannCynthia Weil)

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 or 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 friend

Don't give up on the dream, and don't you let it end.

Carry on my sweet survivor, you've carried it so long

So it may come again, carry on

Carry on, carry on.