There's little we can leave behind that will truly mark this earth But treachery and love are ours to keep for all their worth The flower of our eyes it is a bloom blood-dark but clear If you hold it in your open hand to carry on from here We cut into valleys, raise the mountains higher still As thieves strike like tipple bells and ring around our hills We sing out for salvation but regret we hold most dear Like Gold did in our very teeth to carry on from here This song is old as dirt, it speaks of life lived on a lie And far beyond the reach of any thought of yours or mine Possession is no part of love, it stands the side of fear There's nothing we can hold that means we carry on from here "Oh, where has gone the time?", we say, even as it moves Over and up ending everything we say it proves Just ahead or just behind, casting wide and clear We stand between the rumbling cars and carry on from here Well in the light remaining, after all the heart can bare Of circus wheels that loot their empty ladder in the air We spy the hand of God alive, and holding out the mirror Our every single face within to carry on from here Our every single face within to carry on from here