We are frightened by the frailty of this life And so we pretend that we are strong Till the telephone starts ringing in the dead of the night And all at once we know the world's gone wrong When tragedy comes calling, it'll shake us to the core 'Til the things we thought were solid aren't certain anymore But even when our words desert us and our spirits groan We are not alone We are hard pressed, but we are not crushed We are struck down but not destroyed Cause no matter what may happen We are not abandoned We are not alone There are friends who offer comfort, and they mean well But sometimes it's like salt inside a wound And it's good to speak of heaven, when it feels more like hell But we ask our hearts for healing much too soon There's a Man of Sorrows, acquainted with our grief And He's done His share of crying in the night with no relief There isn't any heartache that He has not known So we are not alone We are hard pressed, but we are not crushed We are struck down but not destroyed Cause no matter what may happen We are not abandoned We are not alone There's no use in pretending, some things just don't make sense And there isn't any justice, at least not yet But in a while we will remember this is not our home And we are not alone, no We are not alone We are hard pressed, but we are not crushed