Seen Better Days

[Instrumental Intro] [Verse 1] We came from the land, from the fields and the hills To the docks and the shipyards, to the mills and mining towns Here passed the engines and the men who made them Their stories are played out We came from the land to the shores of the seas To the banks of the rivers but the last boat has sailed now [Chorus] Seen much better days Out there in the fields and the valleys on the open hills Seen much better days Where the rivers meet the seas, where the brass bands play a final piece Seen much better days Seen much better days [Verse 2] Here we lived and died At the pitheads and the foundries Old headings underground, all worked out Smokestacks on the horizon, skeletons of steel on the skyline [Chorus] Seen much better days Out there in the fields and the valleys on the open hills Seen much better days Where the rivers meet the seas, where the brass bands play a final piece [Verse 3] The power and the glory lost along the way We were the lads, the men of iron The fires that lit the sky, the places that we made Our footprints on the land [Chorus] And here we stand Out on the edgelands One last time Fading with the twilight [Instrumental Outro]