Job's gone, rent's due
I don't know what I'm gonna do
Baby's crying, baby's daddy always lying
Childhood flashback, a little kid with a dream
Can this really be what happened to my dreams?

Life ain't always a bed of roses
You gotta get up, get up, get over it
Be strong

Life ain't always a bed of roses
You gotta get up, get up, get over it
Be strong

Single mothers, incarcerated brothers
Loveless, hopeless, working to turn it all around
Government cutbacks, war kills, you can't take it back
Families left wondering what happenеd to our dreams

Life ain't always a bed of rosеs
You gotta get up, get up, get over it
Be strong

Life ain't always a bed of roses
You gotta get up, get up, get over it
Be strong
It is said that only the strong survive
And remember how good it is to be alive
All around me I see pain and poverty
And it's hard to imagine that thing of
Being all that I can be
But I visualise and I see the light that shines

Life ain't always a bed of roses
You gotta get up, get up, get over it
Be strong

Life ain't always a bed of roses
You gotta get up, get up, get over it
Be strong