keep on keeping on back where everyone can tell their prying eyes know so well a man that s being put through hell back home sit all alone somebody waits for me not like it used to be we d be missing each desperately further we fall each day growing older into the hole we dig through the week i am a cold and wind beaten soldier tired and in too deep back home ex on the phone she hadn t seen in years an option to disappear yeah she s thinking bout leaving here hopes somehow maybe the babies don t have to know watch as they push and pull cry out momma please don t go further we fall each day growing older into the hole we dig through the week i am a cold and wind beaten soldier tired and in too deep girl don t you know that you need me i think you know i need you too we re gonna get through darling don t you know i still love you i think you know you love me too we re gonna get through through stormy skies the future lies in the palm of your own hand at times you learn your life won t turn out quite the way you planned no honestly a part of me has begun to understand we re gonna get through this phase though it gets so hard some days further we fall each day growing older into the hole we dig through the week i am a cold and wind beaten soldier tired and in too deep girl don t you know that you need me i think you know i need you too we re gonna get through darling don t you know i still love you i think you know you love me too we re gonna get through we re gonna get through we re gonna get through we re gonna get through