The Survivors

(Tennant/Lowe)

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Cross a windy bridge

one winter night

Past Embankment Gardens

enter warmth and light

Face the music

(it's never easy)

Forget the chill

Face the future

(it's never easy)

Find the will

If life is worth living

it's got to be done

One might be forgiven

for thinking

it's a life on the run

Many roads will cross through

many lives

but somehow you survive

Look around

Picture what's in store

Is this the final edit

or is the subject now a bore?

Don't shrug your shoulders

(it's always easy)

You can't ignore

That life is worth living

it's still worth a damn

One might be forgiven

for thinking

it's something of a sham

Many words may make it sound contrived

but somehow we're alive

(The survivors)

Our heads bowed

(The survivors)

At memorials for other faces in the crowd

Teachers and artists

(it's never easy)

and Saturday girls

in suits or sequins

(it's never easy)

or twinsets-and-pearls

If life is worth living

it's got to be run

as a means of giving

not as a race

to be won

Many roads will run through

many lives

but somehow we'll arrive

Many roads will run through

many lives

but somewhere we'll survive