There's been mistakes and there'll be again We'll fall from grace every now and then Loving and losing from pillar to post The things we hold dear can hurt us the most It's just the price of surviving we pay For sticking it out through another day But it's better than taking the other way out Ghosts at the table, junkmail and trash I bury myself in cigarette ash I draw the curtain, there ain't much to see The world moves along and forgets about me It's just the price of surviving we pay For sticking it out through another day But it's better than taking the other way out Hope, carry me now Hope, carry me now It's gonna take us the long way around It's just the price of surviving this life Learning to breathe through the trouble and strife When living is only being alive Then it's just the price of surviving we pay For sticking it out through another day But it's better than taking the other way out