(Harlan Howard)

The day you left I've felt so strange
I thought for sure that the world would change
But the birds still sing and babies still cry
And life goes on, I wonder why.

An old love dies but nobody cares
The world just minds its own affairs
The winners smile and the losers cry
And life goes on, I wonder why.

How can that moon that promised so much
Still shows his face at night
And those birds that are singing
Hide and start crying when I walk in sight.

I sit here and cry as lovers stroll by
Reminding me about you and I
They live to love while I live to die
But life goes on, I wonder why.

Yes, life goes on, I wonder why...