Enough to Carry On

Enough To Carry On is a quiet, reflective song about getting through the days when there are no big answers — only small reasons to keep going.

The lyrics sit in the ordinary moments: winter evenings, a mug held a little too long, a hallway light left on, a child absorbed in cartoons while the weight of the world hums quietly in the background. It isn’t about fixing everything or finding meaning in grand gestures. It’s about doing enough. Being present. Carrying on.

I wrote the lyrics first, letting the words lead the emotion and pacing. I then used AI software as a creative tool to shape the music around those lyrics, treating it like an instrument rather than a shortcut. After that, I created the images myself and animated them to build a visual narrative that mirrors the song’s stillness and restraint.

This is a song for anyone who isn’t looking for motivation speeches — just something honest, steady, and human.

🎧 Best listened to on headphones
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📺 Let the visuals play — they’re part of the story

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📜 Lyrics:

It’s mid-January
Cold biting through the glass
The tree’s been boxed away
I kept it up a bit too long, just to stretch the past
My lad’s lost in cartoons
Dinosaurs shaking the wall
And I’m staring at a quiet screen
Trying hard to feel at all

I hold him closer now
Like time might loosen its hold
I’ve seen how quick the world can turn
Sharp, impatient, cold
There’s a tension in the background
Like thunder without rain
He asks me things I can’t yet frame
So I stay and hear the pain

I don’t have answers
I don’t sell belief
I just stand where he can see me
When the day feels brief

I don’t need to fix the world tonight
I just need to keep the light on
Hold the line
Show him how to breathe when things feel tight
If all I leave is how I stayed
That’s enough to carry on

The street feels thinner lately
Doors shut earlier than before
Friends kept home from school
Parents weighing up the door
He doesn’t get the tension
Just knows something’s shifted ground
So I crouch down to his height
Say we’re steady now

My work is words and wiring
Trying truth when I’m able
But some days it takes everything
Just to get tea on the table
I hide the cracks behind my ribs
So his sky stays wide and blue
I carry what I have to
So he doesn’t have to

I don’t preach tomorrow
I don’t promise calm
I just make the house feel warmer
When the outside’s gone

I don’t need to fix the world tonight
I just need to keep the light on
Hold the line
Teach him how to stand when things feel tight
If all I give is how I stayed
That’s enough to carry on

I try to write each morning
Even when the words don’t land
Little lines to let some sun in
Through the gaps in who I am
I tell him stories of before
And things that still come true
That love outlasts the hardest days
And so will you

I don’t need to win against the dark
I just need to walk beside him
Mark by mark
Leave him something solid in his heart
If all I leave is how I stayed
That’s enough to carry on

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