"Life Goes On" is the title of a song recorded by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 group Little Texas

Little Texas

Little Texas is an American country music band founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988 by Tim Rushlow , Brady Seals , Del Gray , Porter Howell , Dwayne O'Brien , and Duane Propes . Signed to Warner Bros...

. It was released in August 1995 as the first single from the band's first compilation album, Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits (Little Texas album)

American country music group Little Texas released its first greatest hits package via Warner Bros. Records in 1995. It is composed of nine tracks from their first three studio albums , as well as the newly-recorded tracks "Life Goes On" and "Country Crazy"; released as singles in 1995, these songs...

in mid 1995. The song was co-written by the band's drummer, Del Gray and songwriters Thom McHugh and Keith Follesé. Life Goes On was Little Texas' thirteenth entry on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...

charts, peaking at number 5 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 chart and reaching number 4 on Canada's RPM

RPM (magazine)

RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...

country tracks chart. It would be Little Texas' last single to make it to the Top 40 charts.

Content

"Life Goes On" is an uptempo song in the band's characteristic harmonizing style. The song's lyrics are simple in that the narrator remembers a lost love and basically sums up his feelings with "I miss ya honey but life goes on."

Music video

The music video was directed by Gerry Wenner and premiered in September 1995. It was filmed on August 8, 1995.

Chart performance

"Life Goes On" debuted at number 59 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of September 2, 1995.

Chart (1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs	5
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	4