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]