Job's gone, rent's too, I don't know what I'm gonna do Baby's crying, baby's daddy always lying A childhood flashback, a little kid with a dream Can this really be? What happened to my dream? Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to get up, get up, get over it, be strong Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to 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 happened to our dream? Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to get up, get up, get over it, be strong Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to 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 Well, around me, I see pain and poverty And it's hard to imagine that thing of being all that I can be But I visualize and I see the light that shines Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to get up, get up, get over it, be strong Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to get up, get up, get over it, be strong Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to get up, get up, get over it, be strong Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to get up, get up, get over it, be strong Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to get up, get up, get over it, be strong Life ain't always a bed of roses You got to get up, get up, get over it, be strong