Courage (2005 Remaster)

We walk every morning in silence
Past the mills on Whetley Lane
Where the lights went out for the very last time
They never came on again

The spokesman all shred crocodiles tears
In the glory of the News at Ten
But the proudest eyes are long since dry
And they're never going to cry again (they're never going to cry again)

I salute your courage, and I toast to your health
I wish you all the luck in the whole wide world
May you never be broken like they say you will

Waking up sudden from a nightmare
We're walking the line in pain
With a shaven head to the slaughterhouse
And you never came back again (you never came back again)

But she took me in her arms, and she held me
Close tight for a minute or two
And then we smiled and laughed, closed our eyes
Slept again, thinking of you

And the way that it is, the way that it really is
With the money talking and a scapegoat lover
With the painted face of a scolding mother

I salute your courage, and I toast to your health
I wish you all the luck in the whole wide world
May you never be broken like they say you will be

Now lost in time, cut off from history
This is not knowledge, this is information

Yes, I salute your courage, I toast to your health
I wish you all the luck in the whole wide world
May you never be broken like they say you will

And the way that it is, yeah, the way that it really is
With the money talking and a scapegoat lover
With the painted face of a scolding mother

Walk every morning in silence
Past the mills on Whetley Lane
Where the lights went out for the very last time
They never came on again (they never came on again)
They never came on again (never came on again)
They never came on again (they never came on again)